Better Notifications For WordPress Reminders Add-On allows you to send a notification if a user hasn’t published/updated a post, page, or custom post type after a set amount of time. It also allows you to send a transactional reminder notification if a user hasn’t logged in after a set amount of time. This add-on is useful if you run a site that requires users to publish or update content on a regular basis. For example, if you run an educational institute, you might require that students publish or update their homework or lab notes posts on a daily basis – with this add-on, reminding them to do that is easy.
New Notifications
Update Reminder Notifications
After installing and activating the add-on, a new set of notifications will appear in the ‘Notification For’ selection box. These are:
- Post – Update Reminder
- Page – Update Reminder
- ‘Custom Post’ – Update Reminder
Selecting one of these new notifications will then allow you to set a number of hours, days, weeks, or months after which the notification should be triggered if a post / page / custom post hasn’t been updated. The amount of time entered must be in the form of a whole number (e.g. 2) and not numbers with decimal places (e.g. 0.5) in order to work correctly. A single notification will be sent once triggered and will not be repeated. Instead, it will only send out a notification once. As a workaround to trigger multiple notifications for the same event, you can set-up multiple notifications, all with different frequencies.
Publish Reminder Notifications
- Reminder – New Post Reminder
- Reminder – New Page Reminder
- Reminder – New Custom Post Type Reminder
Selecting one of these new notifications will then allow you to set a number of hours, days, weeks, or months after which the notification should be triggered if a post / page / custom post hasn’t been published. The amount of time entered must be in the form of a whole number (e.g. 2) and not numbers with decimal places (e.g. 0.5) in order to work correctly. A single notification will be sent once triggered and will not be repeated. Instead, it will only send out a notification once. As a workaround to trigger multiple notifications for the same event, you can set-up multiple notifications, all with different frequencies.
Login Reminder Notifications
- User Login Reminder
A single notification will be sent once triggered and will not be repeated. E.g. If you want to let users know that they haven’t logged in for a month, then it will not repeat for every month that they haven’t logged in. Instead, it will only notify them after the first month. As a workaround, you can set-up multiple notifications to achieve this, with different frequencies.