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Free Plugin by Timo v1.13.1

Post Status Notifier Lite

Notify on every post change: Flexible rules, custom placeholders and support for all post types and taxonomies.

Post Status Notifier Lite

The facts

Rating
3.9★ from 17
Active installs
700+
Price
Free
Last updated
29 May 2026
Added
Jul 2013
Requires WP
5.5
Tested up to
WP 7.0.4
Requires PHP
8.1
Downloads
52,083

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Post Status Notifier Lite is a WordPress plugin designed to notify users about changes to posts, such as when a contributor submits a post for revision or when an editor publishes it. You can create custom notification rules for various post types and statuses, and use placeholders to personalise email notifications.

This plugin is suitable for WordPress sites that require notification management for contributors and editors, especially those using custom post types and taxonomies. It supports defining custom email texts and allows for some manipulation of placeholder content, although the Lite version has limitations compared to the Premium version.

Best for: This plugin suits WordPress sites that need to manage notifications for content submissions and publications.

What it does well

  • Supports posts, pages, and custom post types
  • Allows creation of custom notification rules
  • Includes placeholders for custom email texts
  • Compatible with WordPress multisite
  • Active user support available in English and German

Where it falls short

  • Lite version limited to two notification rules and one CC email
  • Some advanced features only available in the Premium version

Verdict

Post Status Notifier Lite provides essential notification features for WordPress users, though its capabilities are limited compared to the Premium version.

From the developer

Timo's own description of Post Status Notifier Lite, lightly tidied.

Notify every WordPress post change!

You want to be notified when one of your contributors have submitted a new post for revision or an editor published one? Vice versa you want to notify your contributors when their posts got published?
This is just the beginning of what you can achieve with Post Status Notifier (PSN)!

It works with all kind of custom post types, supports all custom taxonomies like categories and tags other plugins are using. You can grab all these taxonomy values and custom fields attached to a post and use them as placeholders in your custom notification texts. PSN has a powerful conditional template syntax featuring many filters and functions to get the most out of the placeholders!

Define as many notification rules as you need with all kind of settings, like custom CC, BCC and FROM emails addresses. PSN is extensible! Build your custom module to implement a new notification service.

PSN works great with plugins like WP Job Manager (read more), Calendarize.it (read more), Crowdfunding by Astoundify (read more) or Advanced Custom Fields, just to name a few. The possibilities are endless. Want to automate your publishing workflow with Buffer? No problem!

Plugin homepage:
https://www.ifeelweb.de/wp-plugins/post-status-notifier/

Always up-to-date online documentation:
https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/

FAQ:
https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/faq.html

Features

Get the Premium version for all features

  • Define custom notification rules
  • Support for posts, pages and all custom post types
  • Support for all post status values
  • Create custom email texts with support for many placeholders
  • Manipulate placeholders content with filters to completely adjust the output to your needs (uses the filters of the famous PHP template engine Twig / limited to one filter in the Lite version)
  • WordPress multisite compatible
  • Premium version: HTML emails / mail templates
  • Premium version: Mail queue / deferred sending
  • Premium version: Categories filter: Include or exclude categories (even from custom post types) from notifications
  • Premium version: Supports SMTP. You find all necessary SMTP settings to connect your SMTP server in the options section.
  • Premium version: Supports user roles (custom roles too) as email recipients
  • Premium version: Optional logging: Logs status changes based on your rules
  • Premium version: Dashboard widget showing the latest log entries (can be disabled)
  • Premium version: Import / Export of your notification rules
  • Premium version: Copy rules
  • Premium version: Conditional template syntax (Manual)
  • Premium version: Extensible (Manual)
  • Premium version: Custom sender e-mail. Define the notification sender (FROM) per rule or as a default in the options.
  • Premium version: Dynamic recipients
  • Premium version: Late execution to support frontend submission plugins as well as possible
  • Premium version: Rule trigger limitations
  • Comprehensive documentation
  • Included translations: english, german
  • Support in english and german via Zendesk: ifeelwebde.zendesk.com
  • Tested on Windows, Mac OS and Linux
  • Built on our ifeelweb.de WordPress Plugin Framework
  • The Lite version features two notification rules and one CC email

What customers say

“Great plugin, look through maybe 7 plugins until found this one and it is the best.”
– misolek

“just got the pro version and it’s working great, awesome plugin man and thanks for your excellent support”
– nomadone

“This plugin is very intuitive and works great. Very helpful support. Top notch!”
– Rick

“Thank you for your great support – the plugin works great now and has accomplished what 5 other commercial and free plugins couldn’t – to provide simple and configurable email notifications for WP status changes.”
– Jon

Read the full description on the official page →

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