Changes the tickbox default to NOT send an email to a new user when adding them to a WordPress or WordPress Multisite website.
As of April 2026, Skip Confirmation On is a WordPress add user plugin with 80 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Top alternative: Add User Autocomplete.
Since WordPress 4.4, the Add New User process selectively allows an email to be sent to the new user about their account. The default selection is to send an email when the account is created/added.
In some circumstances, an admin might wish to set up one or more accounts in advance – perhaps for testing purposes – and only notify the users later, once everything is ready. However, it’s easy to send a notification message when you didn’t mean to, if you forget to change the default notification setting.
This simple plugin reverses the default behaviour so an email is NOT sent by default, as follows:
In standard WordPress, the tickbox “Send User Notifiction” is ticked by default (so a message is sent). The plugin changes this to unticked by default…
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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