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notification plugins
333 plugins in the directory carry the notification tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026 | Visit Notifications | 10+ | changed hands |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Visit Notifications | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 06 Oct 2026 | Simple BuddyPress Notifications | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Frontend Dashboard Notification | 50+ | released after a long silence |
| 11 Sep 2026 | Disable Email Notifications for WooCommerce | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 03 Sep 2026 | Login Alert Notification | 20+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Notifications For BearyChat | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Notifications For Pushbear | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
| 22 Aug 2026 | Notifications For ServerChan | fewer than 10 | released after a long silence |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage Notification E-mails Enable and disable email notifications that WordPress sends to the admin and user. Works perfectly with many other plugins! | 100,000+ | 4.8★ | 29 days ago |
| Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website Display a simple banner/bar at the top or bottom of your website. Now with multi-banner support. | 50,000+ | 4.8★ | 22 days ago |
| WPFront Notification Bar Easily lets you create a bar on top or bottom to display a notification. | 40,000+ | 4.5★ | 1 month ago |
| Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP Supercharge your WordPress email notifications using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. Default and new notifications available. Add-ons available. | 30,000+ | 4.8★ | 23 days ago |
| Disable auto-update Email Notifications This plugin performs a simple task of disabling email notifications that are sent by WordPress when a plugin or theme auto-updates. | 30,000+ | 4.5★ | 21 months ago · quiet |
| Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro Show a waitlist form on out-of-stock products and automatically email subscribers when items are restocked. Turn lost sales into customers. | 20,000+ | 4.7★ | 9 days ago |
| Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress Take full control of WordPress emails and notifications. Replace default messages, add custom triggers, and send alerts via email, webhook, Slack, and … | 10,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 months ago |
| Top Bar Simply the easiest way to add a topbar to your website. Create a notification bar in no-time and show a message and a button to your visitors. | 10,000+ | 4.0★ | 9 months ago |
| WP Notification Bars Create custom notification and alert bar for marketing promotions, alerts, increasing click throughs to other pages and so much more. | 10,000+ | 3.7★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Easy Notification Bar A simple plugin for displaying a notice at the top of your website that can be closed by the visitor. Completely free and minimal without any upsells. | 9,000+ | 4.6★ | 8 months ago |
| Themify Popup Turn visitors into subscribers and increase sale conversions! Use Popup to show newsletter forms, promotions, or lightbox content. | 8,000+ | 4.9★ | 7 days ago |
| Texty – SMS Notification for WordPress, WooCommerce, Dokan and more A lightweight SMS notification plugin for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Dokan. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Hide admin notices – Admin Notification Center Keep your dashboard clean by grouping all the WordPress notice and hide them in a notification center. | 7,000+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Fatal Error Notify Receive email notifications when errors occur on your WordPress site. | 6,000+ | 4.8★ | 9 months ago |
| Zoho Flow – No-Code Workflow Automation Integrate your WordPress plugins with your business applications and automate workflows between them. A single platform for all your integrations. | 5,000+ | 5.0★ | 23 days ago |
| Notification for Telegram Sends notifications to Telegram users or groups, when some events occur in WordPress. | 4,000+ | 4.9★ | 2 months ago |
| WC Multiple Email Recipients This plugin lets you add up to 25 additional email addresses to be used with WooCommerce notification mails. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| Comment Reply Email Notification This plugin allows visitors to subscribe to get answers to their comments via e-mail. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| WPC Added To Cart Notification for WooCommerce WPC Added To Cart Notification will open a popup to notify the customer immediately after adding a product to the cart. | 3,000+ | 4.9★ | 1 month ago |
| Post Notification by Email Send an email to all users whenever a new post is published on your WordPress. | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 7 years ago · quiet |
| upPrev Display cool, animated fly-out or fade box with related content. | 1,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| Product Notices for WooCommerce Make the best of product announcements, promos, discounts, alerts, etc. on your eCommerce site with this one of its kind WooCommerce extension. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 18 months ago · quiet |
| Unagi Unagi clean-up your WordPress notices from the dashboard and show them under the "Notifications" pages. | 800+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Post Status Notifier Lite Notify on every post change: Flexible rules, custom placeholders and support for all post types and taxonomies. | 700+ | 3.9★ | 5 months ago |
| WP Notes Widget Display important, short, time sensitive text and media in a 'sticky note' style. Auto Tweet your notes. | 700+ | 4.6★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Comment Email Reply Simply notifies comment-author via email if someone replies to his comment. Zero Configuration. | 600+ | 4.5★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Update Notifier Sends email notifications if a new version of WordPress available. Notifications about updates for plugins and themes can also be sent. | 600+ | — | 16 years ago · quiet |
| WonderPush – Web Push Notifications – WooCommerce Abandoned Cart – GDPR Automatically send web push notifications to your subscribers desktop or mobile device every time you post. WooCommerce abandoned cart reminder. | 600+ | 4.8★ | 17 months ago |
| Comment Approved Notifier Extended Zero bloat, single purpose plugin that automatically sends email notifications when comments are approved. Lightweight and focused. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Comment Reply Email Commenters can receive email notifications of replies to their comments. | 500+ | 4.7★ | 16 months ago |
| FCM Push Notification from WP Notify your users using Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) when content is published or updated. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Gravity Forms: Notification Attachments A WordPress addon for Gravity Forms to add attachments to notification emails. | 500+ | 4.1★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| WPC Smart Notifications for WooCommerce WPC Smart Notifications helps you increase trust, credibility, and sales with smart notifications. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 29 days ago |
| Comment Approved Notify a user when their comment is approved. | 400+ | 4.6★ | 7.5 years ago · quiet |
| Host Header Injection Fix Sets custom headers for WP notification emails. Also fixes a security issue with WP versions < 5.5. | 400+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| Order Notifications in Messaging Apps for WooCommerce Instant Messaging Apps notifications including WhatsApp for new WooCommerce orders – Api 100% FREE using CallMeBot | 400+ | — | 3 months ago |
| Disable Password Changed Admin Email Stop password changed emails from being sent to site admin after a user resets their password. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 6 months ago |
| Pingo Notify – Automation & Notification Chat Messages Automate your WhatsApp messaging and send notifications and alerts to customers and site administrators through messaging apps. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 21 days ago |
| Aino Notification Banner Block Create alert, error, info, help, welcome, success and warning notification banners and fullscreen info bars with Aino's Notification Banner Block … | 200+ | — | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| bbPress Notification You will receive mail notification about all bbPress new topic, replies, via multiple customizable email addresses | 200+ | 5.0★ | 23 months ago · quiet |
| Order Notification By Category for WooCommerce This will add more order notification recipients by order item categories. You can notify the different people on orders received on the base of the o … | 200+ | — | 5 years ago · quiet |
| WP Post Email Notification A plugin sending email notifications to subscribers when a new post is published. | 200+ | 3.8★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Announcement Banner Display a banner at the top or bottom of your WordPress site. | 100+ | 3.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Brozzme Multiple admin emails Add more than one email address to a website admin notifications settings. Be informed of new articles or awaiting review of others to improve quality … | 100+ | 4.0★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Content Update Notification Content Update Notification allows your site to notify nearly anyone by email anytime a post or page is added or updated. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Disable New User Notification Disable the user notification email that is sent to the user, with a password reset link, after registration. | 100+ | 3.8★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Draft Notifier Draft Notifier sends a notification email to your blog's admin address when a post written by a Contributor is Submitted for Review. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 16 years ago · quiet |
| New Post Notification Simply notifies users if a new post has been published. This can also be used as an addon for User-Access-Manager. Users will only be notified if they … | 100+ | 5.0★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| NHR Hide Admin Notice | WP Dashboard Notice Cleaner Hide all unwanted notices and keep your dashboard clean. | 100+ | — | 27 days ago |
| Notifadz by Adrenalead – Web Push Notifications With the Notifadz by Adrenalead plugin, start engaging and monetizing your audience via Web Push Notifications in just 10 minutes! | 100+ | — | 6 months ago |
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