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Sending notifications

Sending notifications to clients when their WordPress websites are updated is an excellent way to demonstrate that you are actively maintaining and improving their sites. Additionally, you can encourage clients to help test the latest changes, as they are often the most familiar with their site’s content and functionality. Their feedback can be invaluable, given their extensive experience writing content, engaging with their audience, and understanding their site inside and out.

The Sites Monitor WordPress plugin enables you to get in touch with your clients and communicate information to them.

Please note: this is a premium functionality, don’t have premium yet? You can buy a license here.

1. The plugin settings

When you go to the plugin settings on your Monitor site you can enable e-mail notifications using the toggles. A subject and body field should appear. This is where you can add a default message for all of your sites notifications, so you don’t have to type one manually every time you update a site. Of course you can change the message and even use the available custom placeholders e.g. [site] and [client] which will get auto replaced with the site’s name and client you’re sending the email notification too.

2. Adding client email addresses

Over at the “Clients” taxonomy you can now add and edit client email addresses. You can add multiple of them by comma separation. These email addresses will receive any email notifications you send for a specific site.

3. Sending a notification

When you view the detail page of a site you’ll see a “Notify” component with the default message from the plugin’s settings. You might need to login to your WordPress site first since this functionality is only available for logged in users to prevent abuse.

You can still modify the message, which should be great if you want to supply additional information about the update or want to send a different kind of message. Once you’re satisfied simply hit the “Send email” button and your e-mail should be delivered to your client(s).

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