1. OneSignal – Free Web Push Notifications

OneSignal – Free Web Push Notifications is a popular push notifications plugin with 90K+ active installs. When you publish a new post, your users who have chosen to be notified will get a desktop notification about the new post. OneSignal works in all major browsers on all major operating systems. It also comes with lots of customization and reporting options.

2. Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress

Notification – Custom Notifications and Alerts for WordPress is another good WordPress notification plugin. It isn’t as popular as OneSignal but has some nice features OneSignal is missing, such as the option to send emails in addition to push notifications. Also, you can send notifications about any action in WordPress, not only when a new post is published. You can also send notifications to users based on some criterion, e.g. all admin users. The plugin works with comments, too.

3. Better Notifications for WordPress

If you are interested in email notifications mainly, then you may want to check the Better Notifications for WordPress plugin. The plugin comes in free and paid versions. The free version comes with just the basics, such as the ability to send notifications to individual users, multiple users, all users in a user role, multiple roles, etc. The paid add-ons offer more, such as conditional notifications, custom fields, reminders, etc.

4. WP Notification Bars

WP Notification Bars is different from the plugins so far – it doesn’t send push or email notifications. Instead it displays them in a notification bar on your site. It’s a good choice when you want to notify your users about something important, such as a promotion or a new product. The plugin is responsive, and you can choose an absolute or fixed position for it, as well as on which pages to display it and who to show it to.

5. Push Notifications for WordPress (Lite)

If you are targeting only mobile users (Android and iOS) for your push notifications, Push Notifications for WordPress (Lite) is your plugin. This functionality comes with the free version, but you are limited to 1,000 free notification for Android and 1,000 for iOS for each post. Still, for a small site, this suffices. If you want more notifications per post, as well as the ability to send them to web browsers on desktops, consider the paid version.

6. WPFront Notification Bar

As you can guess from its name, WPFront Notification Bar is another plugin that displays notifications in a bar. It has some nice features, such as the ability to set start and end dates for the notification, as well as auto close. Other options allow you to set colors, size, location (e.g. on which pages to publish it and where on the page, etc.). You can also choose if the notification will autoclose after a predefined number of seconds.

The last plugin on the list is the one with the most active installs (800K+). It’s very different from the other plugins because it’s a Cookie Notice for GDPR. If you have users from Europe, you’d better install it. This plugin informs your users that your site uses cookies in compliance with the EU cookie law GDPR regulations. There are many ways in which you can customize the message – for instance, you can enter any text you like, choose location, link to the Privacy Policy page, etc. There are more notification and alert plugins for push and email notifications, as well as notification bars, so if the ones shown here don’t work for you, you can browse for more.