Title: Default Email Message Text
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Default Email Message Text

 *  [jacaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacaldwell/)
 * (@jacaldwell)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-email-message-text/)
 * Can anyone tell me where I can find the text that is used in the default email
   templates?
 * I am not looking for a plug-in or how to write a plug-in. I am not looking to
   add images, backgrounds, HTML, or Responsive Design elements. I only want to 
   change 3 little words used in one of the messages. Can anyone help point me to
   where the text copy for default email messages may be found?
 * TIA

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-email-message-text/#post-6825558)
 * Many are in wp-includes/pluggable.php . As pluggable functions you merely define
   your own function with the same name. Some also have filters so you may not need
   to re-define the entire function.
 * If you can sniff out the messages you want to change with code, you could even
   achieve change with the ‘wp_mail’ filter.
 * If your email isn’t in pluggable.php, let us know exactly which message you’re
   after. Someone probably knows where it is.
 *  Thread Starter [jacaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacaldwell/)
 * (@jacaldwell)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-email-message-text/#post-6825573)
 * Thanks, but for the life of me I can’t seem to find the text…
 * What I’m looking for is the default “Notice of Password Change” message.
 * The first line of the text for that message is, “This notice confirms that your
   password was changed on [blah blah blah].”
 * I just want to change it to say, “This notice confirms that your password was
   changed.”
 * And I’d also like to change, “Regards” and remove the “All at” portion of the
   signature.
 * I can’t believe that finding these little snippets of text can be so difficult…
 * TIA for any help!
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-email-message-text/#post-6825707)
 * Ah, that one is in user.php, sorry for the misdirection to pluggables. You can
   use the ‘password_change_email’ filter to alter the email content. The filter
   is applied at line 2244. Using the filter is a bit tricky, but it’s explained
   in the inline doc above that line.
 *  Thread Starter [jacaldwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jacaldwell/)
 * (@jacaldwell)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-email-message-text/#post-6825708)
 * THANK YOU!

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