Use the Email Templates Admin Editor Add On

This add on (available through the WordPress.org Repository) allows you to selectively disable emails sent by Paid Memberships Pro. Just install and activate the add on, then navigate to the Memberships > Email Templates admin page, select an email to modify, and check the box for “Disable this email?”.

This is useful if other plugins on your site or third party services like Mailchimp or other email marketing programs are already sending emails to your customers for confirmations or cancellations. Just disable the corresponding PMPro email so your customers don’t receive multiple emails serving the same purpose.

Use the PMPro Toolkit Add On

Among other administrative features, the PMPro Toolkit add on allows you to automatically redirect all Paid Memberships Pro emails to a specific address. Just install and activate the add on, then navigate to Settings > PMPro Toolkit in your WordPress admin.

This is useful if you are testing emails on your site and want to see the emails that would be sent to your members.

Code Recipe to Automatically Disable All Email

The function below will disable all email sent by Paid Memberships Pro – both for the member and the administrator.

Copy and paste this code recipe into a helper PMPro Customizations plugin.

Code Recipe to Disable ONLY the Member/User Email

The function below will disable any email sent to the Member/User by Paid Memberships Pro. The admin emails will still be sent as intended.

Copy and paste this code recipe into a helper PMPro Customizations plugin.

Code Recipe to Disable Email for a Specific Membership Level

You could change the logic of these gists to selectively disable other kinds of emails. For example, here we look up information about the user to disable only emails for certain membership levels.