### [How to Disable the Checkbox Setting for the Weekly Email Summary](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-disable-the-checkbox-setting-for-the-weekly-email-summary/)

**Published:** March 20, 2020
**Author:** Editorial Team

**Excerpt:** This snippet will show you how to use a filter to disable the weekly summaries option you see in the WPForms settings. 

**Content:**

Would you like to disable the checkbox setting for the weekly email summaries that you see on the WPForms settings? If you’d like to completely remove this setting so any users can’t access it, we can show you how to do this with a little PHP code snippet.

By default on the **WPForms » Settings » Misc**, there is a setting that allows you to disable the weekly email summary.

![disable weekly email checkbox setting](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wpforms-settings-misc.jpg)

## Disabling the weekly email summary

If you don’t want any of your administrators to have access to disable this option, you can completely remove the setting by adding this snippet to your site.

If you’re not sure how to add snippets to your site, [please check out this tutorial](https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-add-custom-php-or-javascript-for-wpforms/ "How to Add Custom PHP or JavaScript for WPForms").

 Please note, that adding this code will not only disable the setting but will also disable weekly summary emails completely.

```

/*
 * Hide the disable emails option on Settings >> Misc
 *
 * @link https://wpforms.com/developers/how-to-disable-the-checkbox-setting-for-the-weekly-email-summary/
 */

add_filter( 'wpforms_emails_summaries_is_disabled', '__return_true' );
```

![Now the setting to disable the weekly summary emails has been removed](https://wpforms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/wpforms-weekly-summary-after.jpg)

And that’s all you need to disable the setting. Would you like to change the default email that this summary is sent to? Take a look at our article on [Change the Default Email for Weekly Email Summaries](https://wpforms.com/developers/change-the-default-email-for-weekly-email-summaries/ "Change the Default Email for Weekly Email Summaries").

## Reference Filter

[wpforms\_emails\_summaries\_is\_disabled](https://wpforms.com/developers/wpforms_emails_summaries_is_disabled/ "Using the wpforms_emails_summaries_is_disabled filter")

**Categories:** Notifications

**Tags:** PHP

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