Dan Collis-Puro

<p>This plugin allows users of subscriber- or greater access to subscribe to categories of posts on your wordpress blog. It is probably most appropriate for small to medium sites.</p>
<p>Users can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose whether they prefer HTML or text-only email,</li>
<li>Control on a category-by-category basis whether or not they get messages immediately or in a daily or weekly digest.</li>
<li>Control which categories they subscribe to.</li>
</ul>
<p>Site administrators can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Modify reply-to, from, and BCC addresses.</li>
<li>Modify user subscriptions on a users profile page.</li>
<li>Set basic parameters for delivery – how many messages to send at once to avoid usage complaints on shared hosting, for instance.</li>
<li>Bulk edit category subscriptions from the users list.</li>
<li>Exercise complete control over text and HTML templates.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other notes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Scheduled posts are only sent out after the wordpress backend actually publishes them. Put more simply, they work as expected. Be sure wp-cron is running correctly.</li>
<li>Admins can set a “send delay” parameter to allow last-minute edits before sending out a message.</li>
<li>If a message is unpublished after being published, message sending will be aborted. Messages sent already are – well – sent already. We can’t travel back in time (though that’d be a great 2.0 feature). This ensures that old posts needing minor edits don’t get sent out again as updates.</li>
<li>Only messages published after the date of installation are sent out.</li>
<li>Category hierarchy has no effect on subscriptions. If you subscribe to a parent category, you ARE NOT automatically subscribed to its children. This may be integrated into future releases. We may also allow for the subscription to tags or custom taxonomies in future releases.</li>
<li>Bounces ARE NOT handled by this plugin. You can, however, set the “reply-to” and “from” addresses to allow you to collect them in a logical place.</li>
</ul>
<p>Speaking of cron, if you have a low-traffic site (say, for an intranet), you may find that your messages aren’t delivered in the time frame you’re expecting. This is because wordpress scheduled tasks are fired off by visitors to your website – so if you don’t get a lot of traffic, your scheduled tasks won’t run frequently. You can manually create a cron job to hit your wp-cron.php file, something like:</p>
<p>*/15 * * * * wget -q –post-data=”foo” http://www.example.com/yoursite -O – > /dev/null</p>
<p>Remove the “-q” switch above when you test this manually to ensure the request returns a “200 OK” response.</p>
<p>TODO:</p>
<ul>
<li>More template tags.</li>
<li>Better bulk editing features.</li>
<li>Queue management / statistics.</li>
<li>A better template editing interface.</li>
<li>Better debugging – e.g. the ability to send example messages.</li>
<li>More flexible task scheduling.</li>
</ul>
<h3>More Documentation</h3>
<p>See the “Category Subscriptions” options page under your Settings menu. Template tag documentation lives there.</p>
<h3>Other</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the same terms as WordPress itself.</p>
<p>Copyright 2011, The President and Fellows of Harvard College</p>


Category Subscriptions

Allow registered users to subscribe to categories giving them control over delivery times (e.g. daily or weekly digests) and format (html or text).

Kuba Mikita

BracketSpace

Mateusz Gbiorczyk

notification

Piotr Konicki

tomaszadamowicz

<p>Custom Notifications and Alerts without a hassle. Notify anyone about any action in your WordPress. With powerful Merge Tags, you can endlessly customize your messages. Set unlimited Notifications in your WordPress Admin via the beautiful and intuitive interface within 5 minutes.</p>
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<h4>DEFAULT WORDPRESS EMAILS OVERWRITE</h4>
<p>Now, with this plugin, you can easily disable default WordPress emails and replace them with your own. To do that you can use our awesome Wizard which will guide you through the process.</p>
<h4>HOW DOES IT WORK</h4>
<p>The Notification plugin is built with three main components:</p>
<ul>
<li>Trigger – a WordPress action, ie. User registration or Post publication</li>
<li>Carrier – the thing which is being sent, ie. Email or Push</li>
<li>Merge Tag – dynamic content, ie. {user_email} or {post_permalink}</li>
</ul>
<p>You can use them in any combination, adding as many Notifications as you want. They can be sent to multiple Recipients with the content you write.</p>
<p>The process is simple:</p>
<ul>
<li>You select the Trigger</li>
<li>Compose your message with Merge Tags</li>
<li>Set Recipients</li>
<li>Save the Notification</li>
</ul>
<p>From now on the Notification is working. Test it out and add more!</p>
<h4>PERFECT FOR DEVELOPERS</h4>
<p>The Notification plugin is easy to set in the WordPress Admin, but it’s even easier to extend with some sweet API.</p>
<p>You can create your own Triggers with any WordPress action. If you do in your code <code>do_action( 'my_plugin_doing_awesome_thing' )</code> you can create a Trigger out of it.</p>
<p>This allows you to use the Notification plugin as a notification system in your own plugin or theme. How? Well, because of two things:</p>
<ul>
<li>You can easily load it by copying the plugin files and including <code>load.php</code> file. A function known from Advanced Custom Fields plugin.</li>
<li>You can white label the plugin with just one function which is shipped in the plugin’s core. For free.</li>
</ul>
<p>How easy extending the Notification plugin is? Let’s see:</p>
<ul>
<li>Adding another Merge Tag to existing trigger – 1 line of code</li>
<li>Creating custom Trigger – one intuitive class definition and registration with a single method call</li>
<li>Defining Global Merge Tag – 1 line of code</li>
<li>Creating new Extension – we have a <a href="https://github.com/BracketSpace/Notification-Extension-Boilerplate/" rel="nofollow ugc">Boilerplate</a> ready for you to start hacking</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://docs.bracketspace.com/notification/developer/general" rel="nofollow ugc">See the developer documentation</a> if you don’t believe us.</p>
<h4>DEFAULT RECIPIENTS</h4>
<p>The plugin comes with few registered by default recipient types for Email Carrier:</p>
<ul>
<li>Email address or Merge Tag – free type email address or a Merge Tag</li>
<li>Administrator – takes an email from General Settings page</li>
<li>User – takes an email from WordPress user profile</li>
<li>Role – notify all Users having selected role at once</li>
</ul>
<h4>DEFAULT TRIGGERS</h4>
<p>These are already defined in plugin’s core and are ready to use. You can enable or disable them on the Settings page.</p>
<p>WordPress:</p>
<ul>
<li>Available updates – sent as often as you set them, ie. every week</li>
</ul>
<p>Post Type:</p>
<ul>
<li>Published post notification</li>
<li>Post added to database notification</li>
<li>Post drafted (saved as a draft) notification</li>
<li>Updated post notification</li>
<li>Post send for review (pending post) notification</li>
<li>Post approved (pending to publish) notification</li>
<li>Post moved to trash notification</li>
</ul>
<p>The Notification plugin supports any Custom Post Type out of the box.</p>
<p>Taxonomy terms:</p>
<ul>
<li>Taxonomy term created notification</li>
<li>Taxonomy term updated notification</li>
<li>Taxonomy term deleted notification</li>
</ul>
<p>The Notification plugin supports any Taxonomy out of the box.</p>
<p>Comment / Pingback / Trackback:</p>
<ul>
<li>New comment notification</li>
<li>Comment replied notification</li>
<li>Comment approved notification</li>
<li>Comment unapproved notification</li>
<li>Comment marked as spam notification</li>
<li>Comment moved to trash notification</li>
</ul>
<p>User:</p>
<ul>
<li>User registered notification</li>
<li>User profile updated notification</li>
<li>User logged in notification</li>
<li>User failed to log in notification</li>
<li>User logged out notification</li>
<li>User password reset request notification</li>
<li>User password changed notification</li>
<li>User deleted notification</li>
</ul>
<p>Media:</p>
<ul>
<li>Media added notification</li>
<li>Media updated notification</li>
<li>Media deleted notification</li>
</ul>
<p>Plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>Plugin activated notification</li>
<li>Plugin deactivated notification</li>
<li>Plugin installed notification</li>
<li>Plugin removed notification</li>
<li>Plugin updated notification</li>
</ul>
<p>Theme:</p>
<ul>
<li>Theme installed notification</li>
<li>Theme switched notification</li>
<li>Theme updated notification</li>
</ul>
<p>WordPress:</p>
<ul>
<li>Available updates notification</li>
</ul>
<p>Privacy:</p>
<ul>
<li>Personal Data erased notification</li>
<li>Personal Data erase request notification</li>
<li>Personal Data exported notification</li>
<li>Personal Data export request notification</li>
</ul>
<p>Feel free to suggest new core triggers in the support forum.</p>
<p>Each Trigger has own set of Merge Tags but you can use the Global Merge Tags anywhere.</p>
<h4>GLOBAL MERGE TAGS</h4>
<p>Along the Trigger specific Merge Tags, you can use the below anywhere:</p>
<ul>
<li>Site homepage URL – <code>{home_url}</code></li>
<li>Site title – <code>{site_title}</code></li>
<li>Site tagline – <code>{site_tagline}</code></li>
<li>Site theme name – <code>{site_theme_name}</code></li>
<li>Site theme version – <code>{site_theme_version}</code></li>
<li>Current WordPress version – <code>{wordpress_version}</code></li>
<li>Admin email – <code>{admin_email}</code></li>
<li>Trigger name – <code>{trigger_name}</code></li>
<li>Trigger slug – <code>{trigger_slug}</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>AWESOME EXTENSIONS</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-webhooks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Webhooks</a> – send and receive Webhooks</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-conditionals/" rel="nofollow ugc">Conditionals</a> – send Notifications in certain conditions</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-custom-fields/" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Fields</a> – use any meta value in your Notifications</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-slack/" rel="nofollow ugc">Slack</a> – post messages to Slack channel</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-push/" rel="nofollow ugc">Push</a> – send push notifications via browser’s native system</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-discord/" rel="nofollow ugc">Discord</a> – post messages to Discord channel</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-twilio/" rel="nofollow ugc">Twilio</a> – send bulk SMS messages from your Twilio registered phone number</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-scheduled-triggers/" rel="nofollow ugc">Scheduled Triggers</a> – schedule your notifications based on events time</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-review-queue/" rel="nofollow ugc">Review Queue</a> – catch your Notifications into queue for a manual review</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">WooCommerce</a> – triggers specific to WooCommerce</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-pushbullet/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pushbullet</a> – send Push and SMS Notifications via your phone</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-pushover/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pushover</a> – send Push messages to devices registered in Pushover</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-sendgid/" rel="nofollow ugc">SendGrid</a> – send emails using SendGrid service</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-mailgun/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun</a> – send emails using Mailgun service</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-file-log/" rel="nofollow ugc">File Log</a> – save Notifications as file logs on the server</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/notification-bbpress/" rel="ugc">bbPress</a> – bbPress triggers</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/notification-buddypress/" rel="ugc">BuddyPress</a> – BuddyPress triggers and integration with their notification system</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/signature-notification/" rel="ugc">Signature</a> – add a signature to all your emails automatically</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-apppresser" rel="nofollow ugc">AppPresser</a> – push messages to your mobile app built with AppPresser</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-email-attachments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Attachments</a> – attach files to your notification</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Coming soon</em> – vote for the extensions</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-facebook/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> – post messages to Facebook</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-twitter/" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> – post messages to Twitter</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-zapier/" rel="nofollow ugc">Zapier</a> – connect any WordPress event with Zapier</li>
<li><a href="https://bracketspace.com/downloads/notification-wordpress-poster/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Poster</a> – create WordPress posts</li>
</ul>
<h4>POSSIBLE USE CASES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Overwriting default WordPress Emails</li>
<li>Post publication notification to the post author</li>
<li>Custom comment approved notification to post author and administrator</li>
<li>User logged in notification to the administrator</li>
<li>Notification about removed user account</li>
</ul>
<h4>USEFUL LINKS</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.bracketspace.com/notification/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BracketSpace/Notification" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BracketSpace/Notification/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">Report a bug</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT</h4>
<p>BracketSpace – the company behind this plugin provides <a href="https://bracketspace.com/custom-development/" rel="nofollow ugc">custom WordPress plugin development services</a>. We can create any custom plugin for you.</p>


Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress


This is a great plugin and well worth every star they get. 



It has a lot of features straight out of the box and will cover a LOT of use-cases, however the Pro plugins that are available take it even further.



This was exactly the solution we were looking for 👍 Highly recommend.


Great Plugin. Worth Every Star

Customisable email and webhook notifications with powerful developer friendly API for custom triggers and notifications. Send alerts easily.

Category Subscriptions vs Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress