Email notifications for pending review content submission.
As of April 2026, Pending Submission Notifications is a WordPress Notifications plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.6/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 22K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 12% this week. Top alternative: ActiveCampaign Postmark for WordPress.
This enables email notifications of pending review submissions. By default the email goes to the admin email set on your Settings page.
You can set the email(s) that should receive these notifications Under Settings>Pending Submission Notifications. You can add multiple email addresses, using commas to separate them.
When a submission is approved by an admin, an email notification is sent to the contributor.
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Way to basic, and I think it only works for posts. Its not working for my custom post types.
Face ce trebuie 🙂
Very useful feature for the site with many writers/editors.
Does what it says on the tin, nice and simply. Then the client wants ‘selective pending submissions’, depending on who the user is! Maybe for the next release?
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
*Added support for internationalization.
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