by Jack Arturo 4.8 (18 reviews)

Fatal Error Notify

Name: Fatal Error Notify
Rating: 4.8 (18 reviews)
Author: Jack Arturo

Receive email notifications when errors occur on your WordPress site.

Fatal Error Notify ranks #2,900 among WordPress.org plugins with 6,000+ active installations, is #343 of 5,310 in the Utilities & Tools category, a 4.8/5 rating from 18 reviews, and was last updated Feb 12, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.4)

v1.5.4 Current Version v1.5.4

Updated 8 months ago Last Update on 12 Feb, 2026

Refreshed 1 week ago Last Refreshed on

#343 of 5,310 in Utilities & Tools Top 5% by installs Downloads -15.5% this week

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Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (18 reviews)

Next Milestone 7K

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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

Apr 16, 2024

Fatal Error Notify [fatal-error-notify] < 1.5.3

CVE-2024-32455 · Fixed in v1.5.3
Jan 30, 2024

Fatal Error Notify [fatal-error-notify] < 1.5.3

Fixed in v1.5.3
Jan 30, 2024

Fatal Error Notify [fatal-error-notify] < 1.5.3

CVE-2023-7202 · Fixed in v1.5.3

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.5.4
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 6.9
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: Jack Arturo

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 18
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who need to know when errors occur on their site. It sends email notifications when a fatal error or other configurable error level is detected, allowing issues from plugin or theme updates to be addressed before they cause significant problems.

Email notifications on errors
Configurable error level detection
Detects errors on any page

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Fatal Error Notify

Fatal Error Notify hooks into PHP's "shutdown" function to send notifications right before the page stops loading. Even the dreaded "500 - Internal Server Error" still triggers PHP's shutdown actions. Even if your site is completely offline, in most cases this plugin will be able to detect the error and notify you.

Fatal Error Notify Pro includes several additional features, like Slack notifications, the ability to hide the plugin settings, multisite support, logging of recorded errors, out of memory handling, the ability to pause individual notifications, and more. Fatal Error Notify Pro also includes integrations with Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, WPForms, WP Fusion, and WP Mail SMTP and can send notifications when errors are logged in those plugins.

Yes, you can use the filter fen_ignore_error, like so: function fen_ignore_error( $ignore, $error ) { if( $error['file'] == '/home/username/public_html/wp-includes/class-phpass.php' ) { $ignore = true; } return $ignore; } add_filter( 'fen_ignore_error', 'fen_ignore_error', 10, 2 ); The $error variable is an array containing: $error['type']: (int) The PHP error code $error['message']: (string) The error message $error['file']: (string) The path to the file that triggered the error $error['line']: (int) The line number that triggered the error

Yup, you bet! You can update the plugin settings using WP CLI, for example to set a default list of error levels, or a notification email address. The two methods are get_option and update_option. For example: wp fatal-error-notify get_option slack_notifications

wp fatal-error-notify update_option notification_email email@domain.com

You can also update options on multiple sites using xargs: wp site list --field=url | xargs -n1 -I {} sh -c 'wp --url={} fatal-error-notify update_option notification_email email@domain.com' If you are updating options that are stored as arrays (for example levels or plugins) you can use JSON-formatted values. For an example, use get_option first on the field you are trying to update.