Email, messaging and push notification channels
The category spans several delivery channels, from email and SMS to messaging apps and push notifications.
- Email: 56 plugins share this tag; ActiveCampaign Postmark for WordPress is among the category’s most installed plugins.
- SMS: 46 plugins are also tagged for SMS.
- WhatsApp: 34 plugins share this related tag.
- Push notifications: 31 plugins share this tag, including Perfecty Push Notifications by name.
- Telegram: 28 plugins share this tag; WP Telegram (Auto Post and Notifications) is one example.
- Web push: 19 plugins share this tag.
Admin notices and WordPress update emails
Plugins in this category address both admin notices and emails about WordPress updates, with adoption and maintenance varying across these tasks.
WP Updates Notifier has 20,000 active installs and was updated this month. Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails has 10,000 installs but was last updated 36 months ago, while Disable WordPress Core Update Email has 2,000 installs and was last updated 127 months ago.
For notice management, Hide admin notices has 7,000 active installs and was updated 9 months ago. Hide WP Admin Notifications has 3,000 installs and was updated 5 months ago, showing a smaller installed base among these named examples.
Notification plugins across commerce and site alerts
Commerce-related use is a substantial part of the category’s overlap with other tags, alongside broader alert and update needs.
- WooCommerce overlap: 116 plugins are shared with the WooCommerce tag.
- Messaging and email: 56 plugins overlap with email, 46 with SMS, and 34 with WhatsApp; these counts indicate related channel groupings, not individual plugin capabilities.
- Site alerts and updates: The alerts tag is shared by 26 plugins and the updates tag by 23, pointing to other needs represented in the category.
A fragmented category with uneven maintenance
The category has a long tail of smaller plugins, and update recency adds useful context to adoption and ratings.
There are 337 plugins, none with 100,000 or more active installs, and four with at least 10,000. While 66% were updated within the last year, leading adoption figures vary: ActiveCampaign Postmark for WordPress has 50,000 installs and was updated 23 months ago; WP Telegram has 30,000 and was updated 8 months ago. Other examples range from 36 months for Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails to 75 months for Hide All Notices and 127 months for Disable WordPress Core Update Email.
Popularity and ratings are best read alongside update recency and review counts. For example, the 50,000-install ActiveCampaign plugin is rated excellent with few reviews, while WP Telegram’s excellent rating is based on a moderate number of reviews.