Best alert plugins for WordPress
The most popular alert plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. VK Blocks leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts (30K+) and WP Notification Bars (10K+). All 89 plugins tagged “alert” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 alert plugins
- 1.
VK BlocksThe most installed alert plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 6 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 2.
Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 184 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
WP Notification Bars10K+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 41 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 4.
Notification10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 124 reviews, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Popup Box6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
WP Post Disclaimer2K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 8 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 7.
Disclaimer Popup1K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 5 reviews, updated 1 month ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 8.
Product Notices for WooCommerce800+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 7 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 9.
WP Notification Bell600+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 12 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 10.
Admin Notice500+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
All 89 plugins tagged “alert”
VK Blocks
#383by Vektor,Inc.3 days ago
This is a plugin that extends Gutenberg's blocks.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- Downloads
- 1.5K/day
Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts
#1,048by Jack - BNFW8 days ago
Supercharge your WordPress email notifications using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. Default and new notifications available. Add-ons available.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(184)
- Downloads
- 753/day
WP Notification Bars
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,886by MyThemeShop4 years ago
Create custom notification and alert bar for marketing promotions, alerts, increasing click throughs to other pages and so much more.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.7(41)
- Downloads
- 36/day
Notification
Down in the last 7 days:4#2,070by Kuba Mikita8 months ago
Take full control of WordPress emails and notifications. Replace default messages, add custom triggers, and send alerts via email, webhook, Slack, and …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(124)
- Downloads
- 61/day
Popup Box
Down in the last 7 days:35#2,803by Wow-Company2 months ago
Popup Box lets you create responsive, customizable WordPress popups with live preview, flexible triggers, and smart targeting to boost engagement and …
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 36/day
WP Post Disclaimer
Up in the last 7 days:387#4,571by Krunal Prajapati1 year ago
Add customizable disclaimers, terms, or warnings to the top, bottom, or within post, page, or custom post type content for WordPress
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Disclaimer Popup
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,279by marcodedo1 month ago
Disclaimer Popup is a free plugin that will help you to quickly create a disclaimer popup complete with texts and images
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.8(5)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Product Notices for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,526by CloudRedux1 year ago
Make the best of product announcements, promos, discounts, alerts, etc. on your eCommerce site with this one of its kind WooCommerce extension.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Notification Bell
Down in the last 7 days:62#8,096by wpdever25 days ago
On-site bell notifications. Display notifications custom or triggered (new posts/cpts, WooCommerce order updates, new comment replies, bbPress...)
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.9(12)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Admin Notice
Up in the last 7 days:9#8,760by Adam Walter4 years ago
Display a custom notice to all users in the WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Alert Box Block
Down in the last 7 days:49#9,391by bPlugins21 days ago
Display notices/alerts on the page.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Simple Alert Blocks
Down in the last 7 days:39#10,303by Andrew Lima2 months ago
Simple alert notices for the new WordPress block editor.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Banner Alerts
Up in the last 7 days:56#11,231by Valice7 months ago
Provides an easy interface for creating and displaying alerts or notices as a banner on a website
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Hey Notify
Down in the last 7 days:58#12,325by FireTree Design1 year ago
Get notified when things happen in WordPress.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Aino Notification Banner Block
Up in the last 7 days:53#12,563by Ellen Bauer4 years ago
Create alert, error, info, help, welcome, success and warning notification banners and fullscreen info bars with Aino's Notification Banner Block …
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
bbPress Notification
Up in the last 7 days:33#12,898by Tomas1 year ago
You will receive mail notification about all bbPress new topic, replies, via multiple customizable email addresses
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Publish Confirm Message
Up in the last 7 days:62#14,356by Arul Prasad J10 months ago
An extra confirmation dialog for the Publish button to help prevent accidental publishing.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Instock Email Alert for Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:41#14,642by Laszlo Kruchio4 years ago
Handy plugin to create an input field if the product is out of stock. The user will be alerted with a custom email, when the product stock changed.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.9(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Orbisius Simple Notice
Up in the last 7 days:38#14,665by Svetoslav Marinov1 year ago
This plugin allows you to show a simple notice to alert your users about server maintenance, new product launches etc.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
National Weather Service Alerts
Down in the last 7 days:82#14,778by John Russell8 years ago
Easily add official National Weather Service alerts to your website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(11)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Big Boom Alert Bar
Up in the last 7 days:91#14,799by bigboomdesign4 years ago
Adds an alert message to your site's front end, anywhere within the site layout
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Loginpetze
Down in the last 7 days:144#17,653by Christian Sabo11 months ago
Notifies the admin by email as soon as a user has successfully logged in. The mails are customizable, the plugin is completely translatable.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Publish Email Notifier
#20,815by Zendesignjp5 months ago
When you "post", you can easily notify the registered email address via BCC.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 5/day
WP Down Slack Alert
Down in the last 7 days:369#20,991by Jb Audras2 months ago
Connect WordPress Recovery Mode to a your Slack team to receive alerts when websites are down.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spoiler alert JS
Down in the last 7 days:92#21,437by Luc D11 years ago
Blur any spoiler alert with the Spoiler alert JS shortcode. Anything between [spoiler] and [/spoiler] will be blurred. Blur focuses a bit on hover, an …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Alert System
Down in the last 7 days:101#21,827by Chibueze Okechukwu4 months ago
Simple Alert System is a FREE responsive and simplified WordPress website notification system..
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Ninja Announcements Lite
Up in the last 7 days:289#24,548by Kevin Stover14 years ago
This plugin lets you create announcements (text and/or media) that are displayed in various places of your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 2.0(3)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Comment Admin Notifier
Down in the last 7 days:199#25,549by Jordi Cabot4 years ago
With this plugin, admin users get an email alert every time a new comment is posted on ANY post in the site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
Lifter Image Popups
#26,699by Muhammad Ali Silat4 months ago
Lightweight WordPress plugin for showing simple image notices, announcements, and important popups without a heavy popup builder.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Akismet Notifier
#27,016by Alberto Hornero10 years ago
A plugin to notify the user that the comment posted was considered as SPAM if so.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 1/day
WP Alert Bar
Down in the last 7 days:567#27,083by Ryan Bracey1 year ago
Fully customizable alert bar for your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Notice Box Block
#28,264by Lucid Gen2 years ago
A custom Gutenberg block to create a notice box with different types like info, warning, success, and danger.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
WP Login Notice
Down in the last 7 days:183#30,191by Satoshi Yoshida8 years ago
Someone will be notified by e-mail After logging.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
E-goi SMS Orders Alert/Notifications
#30,658by E-goi2 days ago
SMS Order Alerts for WooCommerce: Increase conversions by sending status, shipping, and Multibanco/PagSeguro payment reminders via SMS.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mighty Notification Bar
#31,735by mightyrobin6 months ago
A flexible notification bar plugin for displaying important announcements at the top or bottom of your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Price Alerts for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:161#32,167by Devnet3 months ago
Let customers subscribe to price drops and boost sales by notifying interested buyers when product prices fall below their target.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 2/day
CooThemes Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:663#34,772by coothemes8 years ago
CooThemes Shortcodes is a free WordPress plugin that provides a pack of shortcodes. With this powerful yet easy-to-use shortcode plugin, you can easil …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
KiduNotifier Pixel Code Handling
Up in the last 7 days:6,086#37,889by sanuas6 years ago
KiduNotifier is the easiest marketing platform that leverages and automates the real power of website notifications to instantly increase trust, conve …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Emergency Alerts
#38,019by WP Maintainer6 years ago
Create emergency alerts for your website. Inspired by the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, but usable for all sorts of messaging that you need to get …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Alertify Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:2,196#38,258by Md Abul Bashar5 days ago
A collection of beautiful alert/notice blocks for the WordPress block editor.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP Notice Popup
#38,943by Jose Canchila (Jodacame)16 years ago
[English]
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
WPGAlerts
#39,881by datainterlock12 years ago
Add Google Alerts to any WordPress Page or Text Widget with a [WPGAlerts] short code.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Flash Notification
Up in the last 7 days:1,674#40,169by Code Work Web2 years ago
Create custom notification and alert bar for marketing promotions, alerts, increasing click throughs to other pages and so much more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Popup Shraddha
Down in the last 7 days:1,151#42,161by Er Siddharth Singh5 years ago
Popup and alert bar on top and on footer.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Admin Notice
Up in the last 7 days:1,736#45,513by aiddroid11 years ago
A wordpress plugin allows you to show a simple notice to alert admins in dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Global Bootstrap Banner
Down in the last 7 days:4,686#45,880by Phil Ewels6 years ago
Add a global website banner using a Bootstrap alert box.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DB Error Customizer
Down in the last 7 days:9,489#45,934by KenazChan9 years ago
With DB Error Customizer, it helps you to handle Error establishing a database connection problem easily and professionally.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
[CR]PostWarning
Down in the last 7 days:10,494#46,015by Arief Bayu Purwanto16 years ago
help you avoid a situation where you publish post but forgot to set title / tags / categories / faetured images / etc.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VGPodcasts AlertBar Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:153#46,157by dasme14 years ago
Adds a configurable alertbar to the top of your Wordpress blog pages when enabled. Also adds a Dashboard Widget to easily turn the AlertBar on and off …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TCBD Alert
Down in the last 7 days:2,323#46,306by Touhidul Sadeek2 years ago
This plugin will enable Awesome Bootstrap Alert box in your Wordpress theme.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day