Post Status Notifier Lite
Notify on every post change: Flexible rules, custom placeholders and support for all post types and taxonomies.
3.9(17 reviews)
·800 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Post Status Notifier Lite is a WordPress post plugin with 800 active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 50K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
3.9/517 reviews
800active installs
50K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Notify every WordPress post change!
You want to be notified when one of your contributors have submitted a new post for revision or an editor published one? Vice versa you want to notify your contributors when their posts got published?
This is just the beginning of what you can achieve with Post Status Notifier (PSN)!
It works with all kind of custom post types, supports all custom taxonomies like categories and tags other plugins are using. You can grab all these taxonomy values and custom fields attached to a post and use them as placeholders in your custom notification texts. PSN has a powerful conditional template syntax featuring many filters and functions to get the most out of the placeholders!
Define as many notification rules as you need with all kind of settings, like custom CC…
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Ratings & Reviews
3.917 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
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Changelog
= 1.11.7
– Fixed: XSS security issue
= 1.11.6
– Fixed: Link to rule edit page on dashboard rule list
– Fixed: PHP code improvements
= 1.11.5
– Fixed: A problem that occurred when activating the Premium version when the Lite version was still activated
= 1.11.4
– Fixed: Issue with last update (mail queue list table error)
= 1.11.3
– Fixed: Admin list table search did only search in item title (#208)
– Fixed: Admin list table search field disappeared on empty result
= 1.11.2
– Fixed: PHP 8.2 issues
= 1.11.1
– Fixed: The exclude filter did not work as expected (#191)
– Fixed: An unhandled exception which could occur during certain WordPress events and not in general (#194)
= 1.11.0
– Added: Support for e-mail attachments (https://docs.ifeelweb.de/post-status-notifier/rules.html#attachment) (Premium)
– Changed: Completely redesigned options section
– Fixed: Items per page option did not work in list table screen options
– Fixed: Translation issues
1.10.2
- Fixed: Minor Cross-Site Scripting issue
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