Greetings,

I’ve been searching the boards for days and have seen this question asked at least 20 times, but never with a solution.

Simply put, how can you change the default email notification settings for all members from “yes” to “no”?

Explanation with code instruction would be greatly appreciated!!!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Various notification settings are scattered throughout the BuddyPress codebase; each setting is saved as user meta.

To disable them, you have to set each one to “no” for each member.

eg. To disable email notifications for a member, you can use:
`update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘notification_messages_new_message’, ‘no’ );`

You’ll have to pass the user’s ID for the `$user_id` variable.

In BP 1.2.9, to find notification settings, try looking at /plugins/buddypress/bp-X.php, where X is each component’s main loader and search for “notification_settings”, then grab the meta key and rinse and repeat:
eg. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.9/bp-messages.php#L254