Simon Wheatley

<p><strong>This plugin is designed for administrators to share the task of moderating comments and publishing posts marked as “Pending Review”. It is NOT designed to notify non-admin subscribers of new comments or posts.</strong></p>
<p>The plugin adds checkboxes to the WordPress profile page, allowing you to setup notifications for these events:</p>
<ul>
<li>a comment is added</li>
<li>a comment is held pending approval</li>
<li>a post is pending review, </li>
<li>a post is published</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have permission to edit other users, you can also setup notifications for them… so when you go on holiday, you can set a colleague to receive the comment notifications while you’re away.</p>
<p>Users can only receive notifications for comments if they have the authority to moderate comments, and can only receive post notifications if they have the authority to publish posts.</p>
<p>Plugin initially produced on behalf of <a href="http://twentysixlondon.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Twenty Six</a>.</p>
<p>Is this plugin lacking a feature you want? I’m happy to discuss ideas, or to accept offers of feature sponsorship: <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a> and we can have a chat.</p>
<p>Any issues: <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.</p>


Email Alerts

Allows users to configure whether they wish to be alerted when a comment is added, comment held, post posted.

Nikhil Umaretiya

<p><strong>Have your contact forms ever silently stopped working — and you only found out because a client complained?</strong></p>
<p>FormBeacon watches your WordPress forms around the clock and tells you when something looks wrong, before it costs you leads or customers.</p>
<p>It tracks every submission event across Contact Form 7, WPForms, and Gravity Forms, flags unhealthy patterns, and sends you an email alert the moment a form tips into a warning or critical state.</p>
<h4>Why FormBeacon?</h4>
<p>Most WordPress sites have no visibility into what their forms are actually doing. A mail server hiccup, a spam filter, or a misconfigured field can silently kill form submissions for days. FormBeacon closes that gap with zero configuration required.</p>
<h4>What FormBeacon monitors</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Successes</strong> — every completed, processed submission</li>
<li><strong>Failures</strong> — mail delivery errors, validation failures, server-side rejections</li>
<li><strong>Spam blocks</strong> — submissions caught by honeypot, Akismet, keyword filters, and country rules</li>
<li><strong>Inactivity</strong> — forms that have gone quiet for longer than your configured threshold</li>
</ul>
<h4>Health statuses</h4>
<p>Each form tracked by FormBeacon carries one of four statuses:</p>
<ul>
<li>✅ <strong>Healthy</strong> — recent successful activity, within your thresholds</li>
<li>⚠️ <strong>Warning</strong> — no successful submission within the inactivity window</li>
<li>🔴 <strong>Critical</strong> — failure spike detected in the last 24 hours, or prolonged inactivity</li>
<li>💤 <strong>Inactive</strong> — form seen but no submission history recorded yet</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported form plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Contact Form 7</strong> — tracks mail sent (success) and mail failed (failure)</li>
<li><strong>WPForms</strong> — tracks process complete (success), AJAX validation errors (failure), and spam detection blocks (failure)</li>
<li><strong>Gravity Forms</strong> — tracks entry saved (success), validation failures (failure), and spam flagged entries (failure)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Email alerts</strong> — notified the moment a form transitions to warning or critical</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard widget</strong> — at-a-glance form health overview on the WordPress admin home screen</li>
<li><strong>Event log</strong> — full audit trail of every tracked submission event with timestamps and context</li>
<li><strong>Monitored forms list</strong> — sortable table of all active forms and their current health status</li>
<li><strong>Configurable thresholds</strong> — set your own inactivity window and failure spike limit</li>
<li><strong>Automatic log pruning</strong> — old event records are cleaned up on a schedule you control</li>
<li><strong>No coding required</strong> — activate and go; FormBeacon auto-detects your active form plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy-first design</h4>
<p>FormBeacon is designed to store <strong>operational metadata only</strong>. It never records names, email addresses, phone numbers, message bodies, file names, IP addresses, or any personal content from form submissions. All data is stored locally in your WordPress database and pruned automatically based on your retention setting.</p>
<h4>Who is FormBeacon for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Freelancers and agencies who manage client sites and need early warning when a contact form breaks</li>
<li>Business owners who rely on forms for leads, bookings, or support requests</li>
<li>Developers who want observability into form submission health without building a custom solution</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>FormBeacon stores minimal operational telemetry to monitor form health. This includes the form ID, success/failure status, and aggregated event timestamps. It does <strong>not</strong> store personal identifiers (PII), request bodies, user IP addresses, uploaded file names, or any form field content.</p>
<p>All telemetry data is stored locally within your WordPress database and is automatically pruned after the retention period configured in FormBeacon Settings.</p>


FormBeacon – Form Health Monitor

WordPress form health monitor for Contact Form 7, WPForms, and Gravity Forms. Get email alerts when forms fail, go inactive, or detect spam.

Email Alerts vs FormBeacon – Form Health Monitor