WordPress Security How To
WordPress Security How To
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WordPress notifications made easy

Do you want to keep eye on a specific activity on your website? Do you want to get alert on admin login with a push notification? It's easy with WP Cerber alerts.

Yes, you heard it right. Subscriptions to events work like a subscription to a newsletter or following someone on Facebook. Once you have subscribed to a specific activity you will get a notification letter by email and a push notification with each event. You can create as many subscriptions as you need.

You can easily subscribe to events according to the filter you have set. Go to the Activity tab, filter out activities that you are interested to monitor, and then click the Subscribe link on the right. Done! You can combine as mach filters (conditions) as you need. The notification will be sent if all specified conditions are true.

To stop receiving notifications just click an unsubscribe link in the footer of any notification email or push message. Note: to unsubscribe, you have to be authorized (logged in) on your website.

How to set up WordPress notification

Example 1: How to get notification on each login

  1. Go to the Activity tab
  2. Select Logged in from the drop-down list above the table
  3. Click the Filter button
  4. Click the Subscribe link above the table
  5. Done

Example 2: How to get notification on each login that made with email instead of username

  1. Go to the Activity tab
  2. Select Logged in from the drop-down list above the table
  3. Enter @ in the text field next to the drop-down list
  4. Click the Filter button
  5. Click the Subscribe link above the table
  6. Done

Example 3: Monitor a specific activity of a particular WordPress user from a specific IP address

  1. Go to the Activity tab
  2. Click on the user name in the Local User column
  3. Select a particular activity from drop-down list above the table
  4. Enter and IP address in the text field next to the drop-down list
  5. Click the Filter button
  6. Click the Subscribe link above the table
  7. Done

Where my notifications will be delivered to?

Notification settings in WordPress

Notification settings in WordPress

All notification letters will be sent to the email addresses you see in the Notifications section of the plugin settings. If you don’t specify any email address there, notification will be sent to the Email Address that you have set on the General Settings admin page of your WordPress (Settings -> General -> Email Address ).

If you have set up push notifications via Pushbullet, you will receive pop-up messages on a selected device or a desktop browser. Find more: set up push notifications for your smartphone or desktop browser.

Note 1: If you subscribe to a huge amount of events, that may slow down your website.

Note 2: To unsubscribe you must be authorized (logged in) on your website.

Have any questions?

If you have a question regarding WordPress security or WP Cerber, leave them in the comments section below or get them answered here: G2.COM/WPCerber.

I'm a software engineer and team lead at Cerber Tech. I started coding in 1993 on IBM System/370 and today software engineering at Cerber Tech is how I make my living.

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