About this plugin
Publish Post Email Notification sends automatic emails at the two moments that matter most on a multi-author WordPress site:
- Post published – the author gets an email as soon as their post goes live, with a link to it.
- Submitted for review – you (or your editors) get an email when a contributor submits a post, with links to review and edit it.
” and no more pending posts sitting unnoticed for days.
Set it up once under Settings → Post Email Notifications, write your email in the WordPress editor, click a placeholder to add the post title or link, and send yourself a test email to check it. That’s it.
Why use it?
- Keep writers motivated – contributors and guest authors know the moment their work is published.
- Review posts faster – editors hear about new submissions straight away instead of checking the Posts screen.
- Look professional – every email uses your site name, your sender address and your own wording.
- Lightweight – one small plugin, no external service, no account, no tracking.
Features
- Email the post author when a post is published (including scheduled posts when they go live).
- Email one or more addresses when a post is submitted for review.
- Write each email in the WordPress editor (HTML supported).
- Click-to-insert placeholders: [author_name], [first_name], [last_name], [user_email], [post_title], [post_date], [published_post_link_html], [post_edit_link_html], [post_preview_link_html], [site_name], [site_url_html] and more.
- “Save & send test email to me” button that shows the exact mail error if your server can’t send email.
- Option to skip the email when you publish your own post.
- Each post is announced only once, so later updates don’t send the email again.
- Works with any SMTP plugin, such as WP Mail SMTP, FluentSMTP or Post SMTP.
- Translation ready.
Need more? Get Pro
Publish Post Email Notification Pro turns this into a complete editorial and subscriber notification system:
- Every post type – pages, WooCommerce products, events, listings, portfolios and any custom post type.
- Three more emails – Scheduled, Updated, and Sent back to author with a note from the editor (a button in the block and classic editor).
- Email all your subscribers about new posts, or any role – sent safely in the background at the speed you choose, with unsubscribe links and one-click unsubscribe for Gmail and Yahoo.
- Import subscribers from a CSV file (Mailchimp, Excel, Google Sheets).
- Branded emails with your logo, colours, buttons and footer, with a live Desktop/Mobile preview.
- Email log with sent, waiting and failed emails, retry and resend.
- 25+ placeholders, including categories, tags, featured image and custom fields.
Your free settings are moved over automatically when you upgrade. One-time payment, no subscription.