77
Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress
Take charge of every alert but watch the support desk.
HealthyDeclining
77/100
Users enjoy the extensive customization options but occasionally encounter broken webhooks and slow support.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
124 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-22%
Declining
72 → 56 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -22% in the last year
72/day a year ago→56/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayNotification is praised for its ease of use, strong feature set, and helpful support, but users report occasional broken functionality and inconsistent support responsiveness.
What people like
- +Helpful and responsive support, including premium assistance×4
- +Easy and quick setup with simple admin settings
- +Feature-rich out of the box, covering many use-cases
- +Works well with extensions such as the Conditions extension and WooCommerce add-on×2
- +Handles comment notifications for all post types, including custom post types
- +Configurable update notifications (frequency, sender, recipients, tags)
- +Reliable performance; works without hassle
Common complaints
- −Notification content can be empty and sell notifications may not appear
- −Support sometimes limited to chatbot or unresponsive×2
- −Webhooks stopped working
- −Announcement link in update notes is broken
- −Cannot disable certain admin emails (e.g., new user creation, plugin updates)
- −Files may be missing in the backoffice after purchasing extensions
- −No option to send email notification when a user’s email address changes
- −Extension support can be slow or absent, with no replies to tickets
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.51★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 7%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 124 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-12-10★★★★★Very good and so helpful supporttondosusanto
- 2025-06-09★★★★★All greatadeemon322
- 2025-05-10★★★★★Better than competitorspersoonlijkvaardiger
- 2025-01-27★★★★★Happy to see that the support is back :-)olivierschaeffer75008
- 2024-10-03★★★★★Webhook deprecationbenhartwich
- 2024-07-03★★★★★Doesn't Disable Admin Emailsed_w
- 2023-09-04★★★★★Works great!ailaina123456
- 2023-09-01★★★★★Great Plugin. Worth Every StarEncodeDotHost
- 2023-08-17★★★★★Impressive Features and Outstanding Supportnkoltys
- 2023-06-26★★★★★Does what it shouldJakub Machala
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
51
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
46
Prior 7-day baseline
29
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
52
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+10.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.82
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
87%
5★ share in analyzed sample
7%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.54 → 4.51★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered