Dan Collis-Puro

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.
Users can:
<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>
Site administrators can:
<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>
Other notes:
<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If a message is unpublished after being published, message sending will be aborted.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>
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:
*/15 * * * * wget -q –post-data=”foo” http://www.example.com/yoursite -O – > /dev/null
Remove the “-q” switch above when you test this manually to ensure the request returns a “200 OK” response.
TODO:
<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>
See the “Category Subscriptions” options page under your Settings menu. Template tag documentation lives there.
<h3>Other</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the same terms as WordPress itself.
Copyright 2011, The President and Fellows of Harvard College

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).

Andy Ha

VillaTheme

Notification for WooCommerce is a WooCommerce extension that helps you create social proof about a busy store. WooCommerce Notification displays recent orders on your storefront. It’s the online equivalent of a busy store and shows prospective customers that other people are buying your products.
<ul>
<li>
Increase conversion rate by highlighting other customers that have bought products.
</li>
<li>
Display orders in real time for buyer validation and social proof!
</li>
<li>
Create a sense of urgency for visitors, and expose new products!
</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<a href="http://new2new.com/?item=woocommerce-notification" title="Demo Notification for WooCommerce" rel="nofollow ugc">Try the Demo</a> | <a href="http://docs.villatheme.com/?item=woocommerce-notification" title="Documents" rel="nofollow ugc">Documents</a> | <a href="https://1.envato.market/djEZj" title="Premium Version" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Version</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/villatheme" title="VillaTheme" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook group</a>
</blockquote>
<h3>Preview WooCommerce Notification plugin.</h3>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CbHBYtqM45w?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>Let’s go through this video on how to use the WooCommerce Notification plugin.</h3>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GrZXP68boSU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h3>IMPORTANT NOTICE</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Plugin works based on WooCommerce plugin.
</li>
<li>
It is released on WordPress.org and you can use plugin as free to build themes for sale.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>FEATURES OF WOOCOMMERCE NOTIFICATION</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Display recent WooCommerce orders: the plugin will take the information about WooCommerce orders to display. This is the “real order” options. You can select a time to pick up orders. In the last 30 days for example.
</li>
<li>
Display virtual orders: Do you want to increase the sale of some specific products? Do you want to introduce some new product to customers? WooCommerce Notification may help you with the fake orders feature.
<ul>
<li>
Create orders for selected products: Select some products and put in the needed information. The plugin will 
create fake orders for the selected products.
</li>
<li>
Create orders for selected categories: If your store has too many products to select manually. This function will 
help you to select products to create fake orders of the product.
</li>
<li>
Create orders with the latest products: Create fake orders for the newest products. Help you to introduce new 
products to customers.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Desktop: display order notification pop-ups on desktop.
</li>
<li>
Mobile: display order notification pop-upson mobile.
</li>
<li>
Multiple WooCommerce Notification messages: You can add and configure as many WooCommerce Notification messages as you want. Each message will be displayed on a different single pop-up.
</li>
<li>
Shortcode: Use the shortcodes to configure your messages. The system will get this information from your orders or create it automatically on WooCommerce Notification
-{first_name}: customer’s first name.
-{city}: billing country.
-{state}: billing state.
-{country}: billing country.
-{product}: product title.
-{product_with_link}: product title with link
-{time_ago}: the purchased time
-{custom}: custom shortcode
-{number}: display a random number in a selected range.
</li>
<li>
Current product: in single product pages, the plugin will display on sale notification of the current product or products in the same categories.
</li>
<li>
Background color: change the background color of the pop-up.
</li>
<li>
22 built-in templates: The plugin provides 22 pop-up templates for you to change the front-end of WooCommerce Notification. So you can make the pop-up fit with your website design.
</li>
<li>
Position: select the pop-up position on front-end bottom left, bottom right, top left and top right.
</li>
<li>
Image Position: select to display the product image on the left or right side of the pop-up.
</li>
<li>
Border-radius: select the border radius of the pop-up.
</li>
<li>
Appear/disappear effect: choose the appear/disappear effect of the sale notification pop-up.
</li>
<li>
Custom CSS: an option allows you to enter your own CSS code to change the front-end of the notification pop-up.
</li>
<li>
AJAX loading: Using AJAX to load pop-up. The pop-up will be loaded after your site finish loading and will not affect your site loading speed.
</li>
<li>
Easy to use
</li>
</ul>
<h3>PRO VERSION</h3>
<ul>
<li>
All features from the free version.
</li>
<li>
6 months of Premium support.
</li>
<li>
Unlimited products: With the free version, you are limited by 2 products at max.
</li>
<li>
Time settings: unlock the time settings.
</li>
<li>
Loop: display many sale notifications in each page loading.
</li>
<li>
Loop by session: Set number of notifications per visitor session so that delay between notifications still work when a visitor move to other page of your website
</li>
<li>
Initial delay: select the delay time for the pop-up to appear.
</li>
<li>
Next time display: select the delay time between each pop-up.
</li>
<li>
Display time: the time each pop-up appear on front-end.
</li>
<li>
Sound: display a notification sound along with pop-up.
</li>
<li>
Assign pages: select pages where you want to display the sale pop-ups.
</li>
<li>
Report: the report option helps the system stores information when visitors click on the notification. Then the admin site could be a statistic of number clicks and analysis fluctuation sales. Report system allows to statistic number clicks by date or by-product.
</li>
<li>
Auto update: with purchase code from Envato you can set the plugin to auto-update.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://1.envato.market/djEZj" rel="nofollow ugc">GET PRO VERSION</a> or <a href="https://1.envato.market/djEZj" rel="nofollow ugc">http://codecanyon.net/item/woocommerce-notification-boost-your-sales/16586926</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://docs.villatheme.com/?item=woocommerce-notification" rel="nofollow ugc">Getting Started</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://villatheme.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Project Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://docs.villatheme.com/?item=woocommerce-notification" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://villatheme.com/knowledge-base/security-is-our-priority/" rel="nofollow ugc">Report Bugs/Issues</a></li>
</ul>

Notification for WooCommerce | Boost Your Sales – Recent Sales Popup – Live Feed Sales – Upsells

Display recent orders as popup notifications, boosting conversion rates by showing real-time purchase, creating urgency, and showcasing new products.

Category Subscriptions vs Notification for WooCommerce | Boost Your Sales – Recent Sales Popup – Live Feed Sales – Upsells