Kemal YAZICI

<p>Has your wordpress website a mobile application? Do you want to push notifications from wordpress website to your application?<br />
Pusher plugin can achieve this job if you use Firebase Cloud Messaging in your application.<br />
If you make the settings in the mobile application correctly, the plugin will push a notification in every new post.</p>
<p>You can find all Firebase Cloud Messaging related information at <a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging" rel="nofollow ugc">this address.</a></p>
<h3>How to push notification to mobile app</h3>
<p>You can send a notification to all users who have subscribed to the topic you set from within your application.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/ios/topic-messaging" rel="nofollow ugc">Send messages to topics on iOS</a></li>
<li><a href="https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/android/topic-messaging" rel="nofollow ugc">Topic messaging on Android</a></li>
</ul>


Pusher – Pushing mobile notification with FCM

If your wordpress site has a mobile application, you can push a notification to the users of your mobile application via this plugin.

Rizwan Abbasi

<p>Topic-Based Push Notifications for Firebase enables you to send push notifications from your WordPress admin panel directly to Android mobile applications using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). Perfect for apps that need to notify users about new content, updates, or important announcements.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Topic-Based Targeting</strong>: Send notifications to specific user groups by topic subscription</li>
<li><strong>Rich Notifications</strong>: Support for images, custom links, and detailed messaging</li>
<li><strong>Complete Analytics</strong>: Track delivery rates, engagement, and notification performance</li>
<li><strong>Engagement Tracking</strong>: Monitor when users open notifications with detailed metrics</li>
<li><strong>History Management</strong>: View all sent notifications with filtering and search capabilities</li>
<li><strong>Modern Interface</strong>: Clean, responsive admin interface that works on all devices</li>
<li><strong>Secure Implementation</strong>: Built with WordPress security best practices</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Setup</strong>: Upload your Firebase service account JSON file and configure topics</li>
<li><strong>Create</strong>: Compose notifications with title, message, optional image, and link</li>
<li><strong>Target</strong>: Select which topics (user groups) should receive the notification</li>
<li><strong>Send</strong>: Deliver notifications instantly to all subscribed Android devices</li>
<li><strong>Track</strong>: Monitor delivery success rates and user engagement in real-time</li>
</ol>
<h3>Perfect For</h3>
<ul>
<li>News and blog websites with mobile apps</li>
<li>E-commerce stores with Android applications</li>
<li>Educational platforms with student mobile apps</li>
<li>Community websites with member applications</li>
<li>Any WordPress site with an Android companion app</li>
</ul>
<h3>What You Need</h3>
<ul>
<li>Firebase project with FCM enabled</li>
<li>Service account JSON file from Firebase Console</li>
<li>Android app configured to receive FCM notifications (topic based). This version doesn’t handle token based notifications.</li>
<li>WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to Google’s Firebase services to send push notifications to mobile applications. External service connections are required for the plugin’s core functionality.</p>
<p><strong>Google OAuth API (oauth2.googleapis.com)</strong><br />
* Purpose: Authentication with Firebase Cloud Messaging service<br />
* Data sent: Service account credentials (from your uploaded JSON file), authentication tokens<br />
* When: Every time notifications are sent (to obtain access tokens)<br />
* Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms<br />
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<p><strong>Firebase Cloud Messaging API (fcm.googleapis.com)</strong><br />
* Purpose: Sending push notifications to Android mobile applications<br />
* Data sent: Notification content (title, message, image URLs, links), target topics, FCM project ID<br />
* When: When you send notifications through the plugin interface<br />
* Terms of Service: https://firebase.google.com/terms<br />
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<h3>Privacy & Data</h3>
<p>This plugin processes notification data locally on your WordPress installation. Notifications are sent directly to Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging service.</p>
<p>No user data is collected or sent to services other than Google/Firebase for notification delivery. Your Firebase service account credentials are stored securely on your server.</p>
<h3>Developers</h3>
<p>The plugin includes hooks and filters for developers to extend functionality:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>tbpn_before_send_notification</code> – Filter notification data before sending</li>
<li><code>tbpn_after_send_notification</code> – Action after notification is sent</li>
<li><code>tbpn_notification_response</code> – Filter FCM response data</li>
<li>REST API endpoint for mobile apps to report engagement</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical Details</h3>
<h3>System Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>MySQL 5.6 or MariaDB 10.0</li>
<li>SSL certificate (recommended for production)</li>
</ul>
<h3>File Permissions</h3>
<p>The plugin creates a secure upload directory for Firebase service account files. Ensure your WordPress uploads directory is writable.</p>
<h3>Database Tables</h3>
<p>The plugin creates two tables:<br />
* <code>wp_tbpn_notifications</code> – Stores notification history and analytics<br />
* <code>wp_tbpn_engagements</code> – Tracks user engagement with notifications</p>
<h3>REST API Endpoints</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>POST /wp-json/mn/v1/engage</code> – Report notification engagement (for mobile apps)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hooks for Developers</h3>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong><br />
* <code>tbpn_notification_sent</code> – Triggered after notification is sent<br />
* <code>tbpn_notification_failed</code> – Triggered when notification sending fails<br />
* <code>tbpn_engagement_recorded</code> – Triggered when engagement is recorded</p>
<p><strong>Filters:</strong><br />
* <code>tbpn_notification_data</code> – Filter notification data before sending<br />
* <code>tbpn_topics_list</code> – Filter available topics<br />
* <code>tbpn_max_notifications_per_hour</code> – Filter rate limiting</p>
<h3>Security Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Nonce verification for all forms</li>
<li>Capability checks for admin actions</li>
<li>SQL injection prevention with prepared statements</li>
<li>XSS prevention with proper output escaping</li>
<li>Secure file upload handling</li>
<li>Rate limiting for notification sending</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please use the WordPress.org support forums.</p>
<p>For documentation and updates, visit the plugin homepage.</p>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>This plugin is open source. Contributions, bug reports, and feature requests are welcome on the plugin’s development repository.</p>


Topic-Based Push Notifications for Firebase

Professional WordPress plugin for sending Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) push notifications to Android apps with advanced targeting and analytics.

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