https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-notification-admin_email-for-from-address Gravity Support Forums Topic: Change Notification {admin_email} for From Address en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:35:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-notification-admin_email-for-from-address#post-233752 Thu, 02 May 2013 11:46:12 +0000 Steve Napierski 233752@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This looks like a pretty good solution to your situation. Kudos! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-notification-admin_email-for-from-address#post-232014 Wed, 01 May 2013 08:27:52 +0000 magicdust 232014@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>We set up gravity forms for a lot of our clients, however our normal Wordpress install the client usually uses an editor-level account and we handle the admin account. This is to prevent our often very low-tech clients from doing things that will break their site.</p> <p>The problem we're having is that although we do try to tell them not to, they're often leaving the From and To fields in their Notifications as {admin_email}. This is a problem because that email address is our email address, not theirs.</p> <p>I've looked up the gform_notification hook, and got it working so that if the notification has the text {admin_email} it replaces it with the email address of their account.</p> <p>The problem is that this doesn't seem to work on the From field. Is there a way in Gravity Forms to filter the From email address, so that I can replace it with theirs if they haven't manually changed it in the Form Settings?</p> <p>I'll be using 1.7 only from now on, so 1.7 filters are fine.</p> <p>My code so far (in a custom plugin for stuff like this):<br /> <pre><code>function gform_notification_email( $notification, $email, $form) { $editor = get_userdata( 2 ); $notification = str_replace( &#39;{admin_email}&#39;, $editor-&gt;user_email, $notification); return $notification; } add_filter(&#39;gform_notification&#39;, &#39;gform_notification_email&#39;, 10, 3);</code></pre> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Jacob @ magicdust</p> <p>Edit: Sorry, I should note, that simply doing this:<br /> <pre><code>$notification[&#39;from&#39;] = $editor-&gt;user_email;</code></pre> <p>Works just fine. However this will overwrite it even if the user changes it. I'd like to preserve whatever's in there, unless it's {admin_email}. Problem is it looks like that even though {admin_email} is what's in the notification settings, it's not actually included in the $notifications array.</p> <p>Edit: Ok, It seems just checking if $notification['from] == '' is working. Is there anything wrong with this approach? Are there any other places the admin email address is used I should watch out for?</p> <p>I know I've pretty much solved the problem... already, but I'm not super-confident in my solution. So if there's a better way, I'd love to hear it.</p> <p>Cheers! </p>