admin - Removing Administration Email Address email from the settings, without requiring confirmation|Programmer puzzle solving

After providing admin support for several prototype websites, with my email used as the "Administration Email Address", I'm no longer required for support, however I have no confidence that the site owner (largely inactive, when it comes to site management, and not interested in receiving admin emails) will confirm any email change, so I just want to remove my email address from the site settings so that I stop receiving emails.

Is there any way to do this through the admin dashboard using standard features, or would I need a custom plugin?

The Settings > General page says "If you change this, an email will be sent to your new address to confirm it. The new address will not become active until confirmed."

Is there any way to do this through the admin dashboard using standard features, or would I need a custom plugin?

The Settings > General page says "If you change this, an email will be sent to your new address to confirm it. The new address will not become active until confirmed."

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You can update this through the database (wp_options) table.

The option_name is called "admin_email"

If you have WP CLI access (sometimes even shared hosting services provide this), you can use this command to replace all occurences of the e-mail adress:

wp search-replace '[email protected]' '[email protected]' --all-tables

Be sure to delete your user before running this.

If you only want to change the admin e-mail, and nothing else, use this command:

wp option update admin_email [email protected]

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