MC4WP vs Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress

Allowing your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is. This plugins helps you grow your email list in Mailchimp. You can use it to create good looking and accessible sign-up forms or integrate with any other existing form on your WordPress site, like your contact, comment or checkout form. Some (but not all) features Connect with your Mailchimp account in seconds. Sign-up forms which are good looking, user-friendly and mobile optimized. You have complete control over the form fields and can build your forms using native HTML. Seamless integration with the following plugins: WordPress Comment Form WordPress Registration Form Contact Form 7 WooCommerce Gravity Forms Ninja Forms 3 WPForms BuddyPress MemberPress Events Manager Easy Digital Downloads Give UltimateMember HTML Forms AffiliateWP Is the plugin you want to integrate with not listed above? You can probably still use our custom integration feature. Alternatively, the plugin comes with a PHP API to programmatically add a new subscriber to Mailchimp. Mailchimp for WordPress Premium: Send your WooCommerce orders to Mailchimp so you can see exactly what each subscriber purchased and how much revenue your email campaigns are generating. A multitude of available add-on plugins and integrations: Mailchimp for WordPress Premium Mailchimp Top Bar Boxzilla Pop-ups Well documented through our knowledge base. Developer friendly. For some inspiration, check out our repository of example code snippets. Ready for PHP 8.5, but backwards-compatible all the way down to PHP 7.4. What is Mailchimp? Mailchimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. It is free for lists with up to 500 email subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of small businesses across the globe. If you are not yet using Mailchimp, creating an account is 100% free and only takes you about 30 seconds. Support If you need some help in setting up the plugin, you have various options: Search through our knowledge base. Open a topic in the WordPress.org plugin support forums If you’re a premium user, send an email to the email address listed inside the plugin. Translations You can help translate this plugin into your language using your WordPress.org account. Development This plugin is being developed on GitHub. If you want to collaborate, please look at ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress. Customizing the plugin The plugin provides various filter and action hooks that allow you to modify or extend the default behavior. We’re also maintaining a collection of sample code snippets.

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. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE FREE VERSION 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 Create custom notifications — Get notified when posts are published, users register, comments arrive, plugins update, and 50+ other WordPress events Use dynamic content — Insert Merge Tags like {post_title}, {user_email}, or {comment_content} to personalize every message Send to anyone — Route notifications to specific email addresses, users, or entire roles Send via email or webhook — Email is built-in; webhooks let you connect to any external service or automation tool Control with precision — Enable or disable individual triggers, configure carriers, and set up multiple notifications per event REPLACE DEFAULT WORDPRESS EMAILS 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. BUILT-IN TRIGGERS Over 50 triggers are ready to use out of the box. Enable or disable them in Settings. Posts & Custom Post Types — published, drafted, updated, pending review, approved, trashed (works with any CPT) Taxonomy terms — created, updated, deleted (works with any taxonomy) Comments, Pingbacks & Trackbacks — new, replied, approved, unapproved, spam, trashed Users — registered, profile updated, logged in, failed login, logged out, password reset/changed, deleted Media — added, updated, deleted Plugins — activated, deactivated, installed, removed, updated Themes — installed, switched, updated WordPress — available updates (on a schedule you define) Privacy — personal data erased, erase request, exported, export request Each trigger comes with its own set of Merge Tags, plus you can use Global Merge Tags ({site_title}, {admin_email}, {home_url}, etc.) anywhere. EXTENSIONS Extend the plugin with additional carriers, triggers, and features: Webhooks – send and receive Webhooks Conditionals – send Notifications only when specific conditions are met Custom Fields – use any meta value in your Notifications Slack – post messages to Slack channel Push – send push notifications via browser’s native system Discord – post messages to Discord channel Twilio – send bulk SMS messages from your Twilio registered phone number Scheduled Triggers – schedule your notifications based on events time Review Queue – catch your Notifications into a queue for manual review WooCommerce – triggers specific to WooCommerce Pushbullet – send Push and SMS Notifications via your phone Pushover – send Push messages to devices registered in Pushover SendGrid – send emails using SendGrid service Mailgun – send emails using Mailgun service File Log – save Notifications as file logs on the server bbPress – bbPress triggers BuddyPress – BuddyPress triggers and integration with their notification system Signature – add a signature to all your emails automatically Email Attachments – attach files to your notification DEVELOPER-FRIENDLY Notification is designed to be extended. Create custom Triggers from any do_action() 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. Developer documentation Extension Boilerplate to start building your own add-on USE CASES Editorial workflows — Notify editors when a post is submitted for review, and authors when it’s approved or scheduled Security monitoring — Get alerts on failed login attempts, user role changes, or plugin activations Client sites — Replace confusing default WordPress emails with branded, clear messages for your clients Team coordination — Send Slack or webhook notifications when content is updated, users register, or comments need moderation WooCommerce stores — Trigger custom alerts for orders, stock changes, and customer activity (with the WooCommerce extension) Here are some of the most popular specific setups. See the FAQ section for step-by-step details on each. Notify authors when their post is published Email editors when a post is submitted for review Replace the default new user welcome email with a branded version Alert admins on failed login attempts with IP address details Get notified when someone edits a published post Send Slack/webhook alerts when plugins are activated or updated Notify users when their role changes Disable default WordPress emails and replace them with custom ones Monitor user registrations, password resets, and account deletions Set up comment moderation notifications for post authors USEFUL LINKS Documentation GitHub repository Report a bug CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT BracketSpace – the company behind this plugin provides custom WordPress plugin development services. We can create any custom plugin for you.