Change recipient of email notifications for new comments in WordPress

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As standard in WordPress, any new comments will be sent to the admin email or the post author only.

If you to change the recipient of email notifications for new comments in WordPress, add the following code to functions.php either in your theme folder or even better, in your child theme folder.

function if_change_recipient_comment_notification( $emails, $comment_id ){
$recipient_email = 'example@example.com';

return array( $recipient_email );
}
add_filter( 'comment_notification_recipients', 'if_change_recipient_comment_notification', 10, 2 );

NOTE: This guide is for WordPress developers or users that know how to access the php files