While setting up and testing WordPress, I realized the site's users would all get email from someone named "wordpress" using the email address "wordpress@example.com" -- this wouldn't do!

I searched the forums and some of the "How to" sites, but all I could find was an outdated plugin that claimed to be able to change the name.  Knowing someone else's plugin could do it in an earlier version, I figured I could write something to do it myself, (this was a WP 3.0 installation).

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