by Jack - BNFW 4.8 (184 reviews)

Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts - Better Notifications for WP

Name: Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts - Better Notifications for WP
Rating: 4.8 (184 reviews)
Author: Jack - BNFW

Supercharge your WordPress email notifications using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. Default and new notifications available. Add-ons available.

Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts ranks #1,041 among WordPress.org plugins with 30,000+ active installations, is #65 of 3,349 in the Communication category, a 4.8/5 rating from 184 reviews, and was last updated Jul 30, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1)

v1.9.9.2 Current Version v1.9.9.2

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 30 Jul, 2026

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#65 of 3,349 in Communication Top 5% by installs Downloads -31.5% this week

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Support Resolved

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Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (184 reviews)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

3 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Jul 18, 2023

Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP [bnfw] < 1.7

CVE-2023-33999 · Fixed in v1.7
May 18, 2023

Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP [bnfw] < 1.9.3

CVE-2023-32964 · Fixed in v1.9.3
Jan 31, 2022

Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP [bnfw] < 1.8.7

CVE-2022-0345 · Fixed in v1.8.7

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.9.9.2
Last Updated: Jul 30, 2026
Requires WP: 4.8+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Jack - BNFW

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 184
Support Threads: 2
Resolved: 100%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who want to customize the emails and notifications their site sends. It solves the problem of WordPress's plain, hard-to-edit default email notifications by providing a WYSIWYG editor, shortcodes, and additional notification types beyond the defaults.

WYSIWYG email editor
Shortcode support
Customizes default WordPress emails
Adds new notification types
Send to individual users or roles
Multiple user role targeting
Premium add-ons available
Uses wp_mail for sending

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts - Better Notifications for WP

Yes and no. Most notifications work but full support can't be guaranteed for all notifications at the moment. Full support is on the roadmap but for the time being, I'd recommend using the Classic Editor plugin with BNFW.

Shortcodes are text in square brackets that output content of some kind. For example, if you want to add the content of a post to a notification for 'New Post Published', you can use the [post_content] shortcode to display this in the email that is sent out. Shortcodes can be used in the 'Subject' and 'Message Body' of your notifications, except for a select few (due to a restriction in WordPress). A handy list of shortcodes you can use is available here.

Outreach: A blog/news site with hundreds of subscribers and want to use it to alert them of new blog posts. Communication: A small, internal WordPress site and use it to alert staff of new posts or comments. Monitor: A website for an awesome new product or service and use it for notifications of pingbacks and trackbacks. Security: To receive alerts of password reset requests and their corresponding user. The possibilities are endless!

Yes! There is an option for suppressing comments marked as SPAM in the plugin settings.

Yes! Full support for WordPress Multisite was added in 1.6.13, alongside the release of the Multisite Add-on.

Not using BNFW. If you want to let users create their own email notifications/subscriptions/alerts, check out my other plugin: Content Notify. Notifications aren't coming through! First of all, follow this article about how to find out what might be causing the problem. Additionally, please take a look at this help document to see how you might improve email delivery when using Better Notifications for WP. Many hosts place a limit on the number of emails that can be sent out within an hour so this may also cause some delay in emails arriving. This article has a fairly extensive list of hosts and their corresponding email rate limits that's worth checking out. Alternatively, please check with your host directly to find out what your limit is. If you're still having problems, please drop me a line in the Free Support Forums and I'll do my best to help. Some of my shortcodes aren't working! It's possible you're inserting a shortcode into a notification that cannot use it. For example: the 'New Category' email notification cannot use any of the author or time shortcodes as WordPress only stores the category name, category slug and category description in the database by default. It's also worth checking the spelling and underscores in any shortcodes as well as if they are wrapped in square brackets []. Other emails from WordPress / other plugins are being messed up! WordPress, by default, sends all emails in Plain Text. If you'd like to include code or use the WYSIWYG editor as part of Better Notifications for WP in your emails, you can change this to HTML using the global setting in Better Notification for WordPress. This can be found under the 'Notifications > Settings' screen. Changing this global email format setting will affect how all emails are sent out from WordPress however, so you may experience formatting issues with emails sent out from other plugins if you change the email format setting in this way. If you do, change this setting to Plain Text. You can also set the email format on a per-notification basis when setting-up a new Notification. The caveat is that WordPress will only either allow setting the email format globally (for all emails) or individually for anything that's non-transactional. Custom Post Type 'X' isn't showing in the list of available custom post types This is most likely because it's public setting is set to false. Try changing this and see if it shows up in the list. If the custom post type has been created by a plugin and is set to private (such as TablePress), you'll need to get in touch with the plugin author to see if they'll consider changing it to public instead so that BNFW can send out notifications for it.

Yes, of course! The plugin is completely translation-friendly and if you send me your .po file, I'll make sure to include it in the plugin and credit you in the changelog.

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Better Notification for WP plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.