Kuba Mikita

BracketSpace

Mateusz Gbiorczyk

notification

Piotr Konicki

tomaszadamowicz

WordPress sends emails you can’t customize. You can’t change who receives them, what they say, or how they look. And if you need to notify your team about content changes, user activity, or security events — WordPress simply doesn’t do that.
Notification fixes this. It gives you complete control over what WordPress sends, to whom, and through which channel. Replace rigid default emails with fully customizable messages, or create entirely new notifications triggered by any WordPress event. No coding required — set up your first notification in under 5 minutes.
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<h4>WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE FREE VERSION</h4>
<ul>
<li>Replace default WordPress emails — Disable any built-in email (new user, password reset, comments, etc.) and replace it with your own version using the built-in Wizard</li>
<li>Create custom notifications — Get notified when posts are published, users register, comments arrive, plugins update, and 50+ other WordPress events</li>
<li>Use dynamic content — Insert Merge Tags like <code>{post_title}</code>, <code>{user_email}</code>, or <code>{comment_content}</code> to personalize every message</li>
<li>Send to anyone — Route notifications to specific email addresses, users, or entire roles</li>
<li>Send via email or webhook — Email is built-in; webhooks let you connect to any external service or automation tool</li>
<li>Control with precision — Enable or disable individual triggers, configure carriers, and set up multiple notifications per event</li>
</ul>
<h4>REPLACE DEFAULT WORDPRESS EMAILS</h4>
The built-in Wizard walks you through disabling WordPress default emails and replacing them with your own. You keep full control over the content, recipients, and formatting — no more generic messages you can’t edit.
<h4>BUILT-IN TRIGGERS</h4>
Over 50 triggers are ready to use out of the box. Enable or disable them in Settings.
<ul>
<li>Posts & Custom Post Types — published, drafted, updated, pending review, approved, trashed (works with any CPT)</li>
<li>Taxonomy terms — created, updated, deleted (works with any taxonomy)</li>
<li>Comments, Pingbacks & Trackbacks — new, replied, approved, unapproved, spam, trashed</li>
<li>Users — registered, profile updated, logged in, failed login, logged out, password reset/changed, deleted</li>
<li>Media — added, updated, deleted</li>
<li>Plugins — activated, deactivated, installed, removed, updated</li>
<li>Themes — installed, switched, updated</li>
<li>WordPress — available updates (on a schedule you define)</li>
<li>Privacy — personal data erased, erase request, exported, export request</li>
</ul>
Each trigger comes with its own set of Merge Tags, plus you can use Global Merge Tags (<code>{site_title}</code>, <code>{admin_email}</code>, <code>{home_url}</code>, etc.) anywhere.
<h4>EXTENSIONS</h4>
Extend the plugin with additional carriers, triggers, and features:
<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 only when specific conditions are met</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 a queue for 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-sendgrid/" 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-email-attachments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Email Attachments</a> – attach files to your notification</li>
</ul>
<h4>DEVELOPER-FRIENDLY</h4>
Notification is designed to be extended. Create custom Triggers from any <code>do_action()</code> call, add Merge Tags in a single line of code, or build entirely new Carriers. The plugin can be bundled with your theme or plugin and white-labeled with one function call.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://docs.bracketspace.com/notification/developer/general" rel="nofollow ugc">Developer documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BracketSpace/Notification-Extension-Boilerplate/" rel="nofollow ugc">Extension Boilerplate</a> to start building your own add-on</li>
</ul>
<h4>USE CASES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Editorial workflows — Notify editors when a post is submitted for review, and authors when it’s approved or scheduled</li>
<li>Security monitoring — Get alerts on failed login attempts, user role changes, or plugin activations</li>
<li>Client sites — Replace confusing default WordPress emails with branded, clear messages for your clients</li>
<li>Team coordination — Send Slack or webhook notifications when content is updated, users register, or comments need moderation</li>
<li>WooCommerce stores — Trigger custom alerts for orders, stock changes, and customer activity (with the WooCommerce extension)</li>
</ul>
Here are some of the most popular specific setups. See the FAQ section for step-by-step details on each.
<ul>
<li>Notify authors when their post is published</li>
<li>Email editors when a post is submitted for review</li>
<li>Replace the default new user welcome email with a branded version</li>
<li>Alert admins on failed login attempts with IP address details</li>
<li>Get notified when someone edits a published post</li>
<li>Send Slack/webhook alerts when plugins are activated or updated</li>
<li>Notify users when their role changes</li>
<li>Disable default WordPress emails and replace them with custom ones</li>
<li>Monitor user registrations, password resets, and account deletions</li>
<li>Set up comment moderation notifications for post authors</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>
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.

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

Take full control of WordPress emails and notifications. Replace default messages, add custom triggers, and send alerts via email, webhook, Slack, and …

webheadcoder

What happens if WP-Cron stops working?
WordPress, Themes, and Plugins would never know if a new version is out. You could login to your website everyday for months, and never see any notices about updates. If you’re not careful you’ll soon have an out of date WordPress installation susceptible to hackers. Scheduled posts would never get published, auto drafts never deleted… you get the picture. Your website would crumble up and die.
Use Woocommerce? Subscriptions? Customers would never get billed again! Sessions would never be deleted. Scheduled sales would never appear. Your website would become bloated while giving away subscriptions for one time payments.
WP-Cron is important. So make sure it keeps working.
Think of this plugin as insurance, but free. WordPress, plugins, themes, and servers are all moving parts that can be updated at anytime. You can’t guarantee any of these changes won’t break your website in some way. While it’s not likely WP-Cron will stop working, if it does, you better know about it.
Every 24 hours this plugin automatically checks to see if WP-Cron is still able to run. Obviously, it does not depend on WP-Cron. Instead it sets its own transients that expire over 24 hours. Whenever the transient expires it checks to make sure WordPress can run WP-Cron. If an unexpected error occurs the you’ll get an email.
In addition to checking if WP-Cron CAN run, this plugin now logs all hooks running with WP-Cron and if they fail or complete. You’ll be able to see what ran, when it ran, how long it took, and if it completed.
For your convenience The WP-Cron Status Checker is displayed on your WordPress admin dashboard. The status page is accessible through the Tools -> WP Cron Status side menu.
Know when WP-Cron doesn’t complete
When a WP-Cron hook fails you’ll get notified soon after. A hook “fails” when it takes longer than 5 minutes to complete. You’ll get an email within 24 hours (or based on the plugin’s settings) to notify you of any failures.
Sometimes a plugin runs some code that abruptly exits the process and there is no way of knowing when it stopped. WP-Cron Status Checker does it’s best to detect this type of code. If it’s caught, the elapsed time is not recorded and you’ll see “N/A” with an “Incomplete” status. Other times when it’s caught you’ll see an “Exit” status which is considered complete. <a href="https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">Please see the plugin page for more on completion statuses.</a>
PRO Version 
The PRO version removes the 3 log limit and lets you choose to keep logs longer and email more frequently. Please see more on the plugin page: <a href="https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://webheadcoder.com/wp-cron-status-checker/</a>

WP-Cron Status Checker

I know I created this plugin, but I am also using it and it has warned me WP Cron stopped working.  I'm not sure what the error was.  WP Cron just stopped working for a short while and then started working the next day right before I contacted the web host.

Caught an error

I debug WordPress websites for a living and a stopped, paused or failed cron is often a problem. I use this plugin to help in the process. Thanks to the dev!

One request. At first, it was very hard to find where to find the status (it's a widget on the dashboard btw). It would be helpful if this was mentioned somewhere in the description of the plugin (unless its there already and I missed it). 

Cheers!

Very handy tool in my debug tool kit

This is an easy way to check if WP-cron is enabled and jobs are actually running. Don't let the relatively low number of active installations mislead you, I suspect many people may use this plugin just like I did - install it just to check WP-cron is doing ok, then remove the plugin again.

My only criticism is that I had expected to be able to view the WP-cron status on this plugin's settings page, instead I had to look for it in the Dashboard.

Good tool to check WP-cron


I installed by mistake, intending to use a simple tool to monitor and log WP-Cron activity. It appears, this is now another freemius plugin which seems to me to be a bait, because description and screenshots are not accurate and up to date.



To use this plugin is now required to give all your personnal data or to register/subscribe. This shouldn't be required for such limited functionality plugin. An unnecessary and intrusive step for something as simple as viewing cron logs



Thankfully, better alternatives exist. Installed by mistake, uninstalling by will.


Almost a bait because it requires personnal data

If WP-Cron runs important things for you, you better make sure WP-Cron always runs!

Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress vs WP-Cron Status Checker