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RSS Desktop Notifications

This plugin helps subscribe visitors to receive Chrome desktop notifications when you publish new posts.

By medaveanderson·RSS·Free
1(1 reviews)
·10 active installs·Updated 12 years ago
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As of April 2026, RSS Desktop Notifications is a WordPress rss plugin with 10 active installations and a 1/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: RSS Importer.

1/51 reviews
10active installs
1.7K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

This plugin works with the free GrabThatFeed(TM) service to subscribe your visitors to your RSS feed, by issuing Chrome Desktop Notifications when new posts are published on your feed. The advantage of this free service over regular RSS is that it makes your RSS feed available to non-savvy visitors who do not use an RSS reader. Your users don’t actually have to even know what RSS is.
With this plugin, you just enter your feed ID, and the embed code is planted on your pages automatically.
Alternatively you can use the included shortcode tags bto include it on a specific page.

Changelog ===2.0 =* Replaced embed code with version 4

Changelog ===1.9 =* Replaced embed code with version 2

1.8 =* Instead of linking to the form in a seperate window, The plugin now uses a direct iframe to a…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Compatibility

WordPress3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 3.7.41
PHPfalse+ required

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Contributors

medaveandersonmedaveanderson
Plugin Info
Version
2.0
Last Updated
Jan 2, 2014
WP Requires
3.0.1+
Tested Up To
3.7.41
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10
Downloads
1.7K+
Added
Dec 9, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

rssfeedsubscribenotification

Developer

M
medaveanderson
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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