WordPress Notifications Made Easy
WordPress doesn’t offer any kind of notification system. All you can use is the wp_mail() function, but all of the settings have to be hardcoded, or else you have to create a separate settings screen to allow the user tweak the options. It takes many hours to write a system that is reliable, configurable and easy to use. But not anymore. I’ll show you how to create your own notification system within minutes with the free Notification plugin. By notification, I mean any kind of notification. Most of the time, it will be email, but with the plugin we’ll be using, you can also send webhooks and other kinds of notifications.
While creating a project for one of my clients, I encountered this problem I’ve described. The requirement was to have multiple custom email alerts with configurable content. Instead of hardcoding each and every alert, I decided to build a system. I wanted it to be very flexible, and the aim was to be able to code new scenarios as quickly as possible.
The code I wrote was the start of a great development journey. It turned out that the system I created was flexible enough that it could work as a separate package. This is how the Notification plugin was born.
Suppose you want to send an email about a user profile being updated by one of your website’s members. WordPress doesn’t provide that functionality, but with the Notification plugin, you can create such an email in minutes. Or suppose you want to synchronize your WooCommerce products with third-party software by sending a webhook to a separate URL every time a new product is published. That’s easy to do with the plugin, too.