Building An Advanced Notification System For WordPress

A lot of tools enable us to distribute a websites content, but when we need to promptly reach a target group, an email notification system might be the best option. If your website is not frequently updated, you could notify all subscribers each time a post is published. However, if its updated frequently or it covers several topics, you could filter subscribers before mailing them.

If you opt for the latter, you could set up a user meta field that stores a bit of information to identify the subscribers to be notified. The same bit of information would label the posts youre publishing. Depending on the websites architecture, you could store the meta data in a category, a tag, a custom taxonomy or a custom field. In this article well show you how to let your websites subscribers decide when they want notifications, and linked to a particular location.

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