Title: send_new_site_email
Published: December 9, 2020
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘send_new_site_email’, bool $send, WP_Site $site, WP_User $user )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters whether to send an email to the Multisite network administrator when a new
site is created.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

Return false to disable sending the email.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$send`bool

Whether to send the email.

`$site`[WP_Site](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_site/)

Site object of the new site.

`$user`[WP_User](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/)

User object of the administrator of the new site.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    if ( ! apply_filters( 'send_new_site_email', true, $site, $user ) ) {
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/ms-functions.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/ms-functions.php#L1782)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/ms-functions.php#L1782-L1782)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [wpmu_new_site_admin_notification()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wpmu_new_site_admin_notification/)`wp-includes/ms-functions.php` |

Notifies the Multisite network administrator that a new site was created.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/send_new_site_email/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [5.6.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.6.0/) | Introduced. |

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