WP Notices
Notices can be targeted by WordPress user role (admin, editor, contributor, author, subscriber, reader, anon or any other configured role), by WordPress capabilities (manage_plugins, read, delete_pages or any other…
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- Small user base (10+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 10 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.6 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where WP Notices stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| members | >100 |
| membership | >100 |
| messages | >100 |
| notices | >100 |
| timed | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About WP Notices
From the official readme · v1.2.4Description
WP Notices is a flexible way to display notices to readers.
Notices can be targeted by WordPress user role (admin, editor, contributor, author, subscriber, reader, anon or any other configured role), by WordPress capabilities (manage_plugins, read, delete_pages or any other configured capability) or targeted at a specific user.
Notice messages can be displayed as text or each message can be automatically converted to a PNG image. Useful for displaying advisory notices that you prefer search engines do not index as text. Useful for creating post images on the fly. The image directory is wiped periodically so download and move images to your WordPress media library if you want to keep them (remember to add them to the post as images from the media library).
The time or period of display can be set using natural language. Display notices forever (by leaving out a start and end time period), from a set start time to an open ended end date, for a specific day, range of days for one time or ad infinnitum. For example start=”Thursday 8am” End=”Friday” would display a notice every Thursday from 8am until start of Friday or start=”Thursday 8am” End=”Friday 4:30pm” would display a notice every Thursday from 8am until 4:30pm Friday; you can even say start=”Wednesday 1st June 2016 8am” End=”Friday 24th June 2016″.
The notice can be styled to change its appearance. There are four inbuilt style classes (alert-success, alert-info, alert-warning and alert-danger).
There is a help message built into WP Notices. When using the WP Notices shortcode set help=\true\ to display the help information.
WP Notices is written to be used to display notices to specific users, user groups or to all readers. It can easily also be used as a flexible lightweight way to show page content to specific users (the style classes are optional) or as a membership plugin (though you would need to configure your membership roles manually).
WP Notices has been tested. It is known to work. If you find a bug, let us know. Support will be provided to fix bugs. We are busy with regular work duties so support may be slow on occasion and anyone who does not read the FAQs before posting a support request will be promptly pointed to read the FAQs.
How to Use
See FAQ section for instructions.
Installation
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WP Notices, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu and click Add New.
In the search field type “WP Notices” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found this plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now”.
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading WP Notices and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains [instructions on how to do this here](https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation).
Updating
Automatic updates should work fine. Ensure you backup your site just in case…
Changelog
1.2.4 – 9th September 2016
- Why, oh, why SVN… 1.2.4 Released to correct release error when this plugin was uploaded to SVN tag 1.2.2 and 1.2.3
1.2.3 – 9th September 2016
- Dummy Release: Corrected SVN upload error to tag 1.2.2
1.2.2 – 9th September 2016
- WordPress 4.6.1 compatibility flag
- Updated DOMPDF
- Moved dompdf directory from includes/dompdf to includes/vendor/dompdf. This fits in better with dompdf files being built via Composer
1.2.1 – 26th June 2016
- Added option to choose which download links to display of the files for PDF, HTML and PNG.
- Separated file creation into individual functions. Now file generation can happen whether images are created or not, but only if files=” is set e.g. files=’html,pdf’ or files=’html,pdf,png’.
- Added multisite compatibility.
- Forced no-caching of pages that display content to site members.
- Began process of converting the plugin into a class.
1.2.0 – 25th June 2016
- Security improvement. DOMPDF directory is renamed on plugin activation. The new name is created via a randomly generated sha2 hash. Directory name is created on plugin installation and is created afresh on reinstallation.
- New css=” attribute. This is used to specify inline CSS for the alert or to specify a custom CSS file to load from wp-notices/css (an upcoming version of WP Notices will include an options screen for CSS file management)
- Activation routine. Install directories wp-content/wp-notices/css and wp-content/wp-notices/tmp
- Deactivation routine. Plugin deactivation removes scheduled event and deletes the dirctory wp-notices/tmp. wp-notices/css remains intact in case it contains custom CSS files.
- Added file download feature. Files created during image creation can now be downloaded. Set files=’true’ to display a link below the image notice. A future update of WP Notices will move file creation to a separate process and thereby permit file downloads for none image notices too.
1.1.0 – 24th June 2016
- Enabled HTML5 support for dompdf. Enabled by default.
- Introduced new shortcode attribute to disable HTML5 support. html5=”. Set to fals to disable HTML5 support.
- Fixed typos in plugin index.php. The intro info needed a few fixes.
- Enabled nested shortcode support. Notices can include shortcodes.
- Added filter to enable oEmbeds and shortcodes in text widgets. Undecided whether to keep this filter in index.php or move it to the FAQ section.
- Added test for ImageMagick support. Conversion of PDFs to images requires ImageMagick. No ImageMagick = no image creation. Help message when enabled displays warning when ImageMagick is not enabled.
- Adjusted help=” attribute to accept @username, a WordPress user role, WordPress user capability or admin as the intended viewer of the help notice.
- Added option to set custom image dimensions using image=’@number’ format=’number’ (width & height).
1.0.0 – First Public Release
23rd June 2016
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FAQ
WP Notices: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 20, 2026
Is WP Notices free?
Yes. WP Notices is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is WP Notices safe to use in 2026?
WP Notices shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 23/100 on our health check.
How many websites use WP Notices?
WP Notices is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,910 times since it launched in July 2016. It was downloaded 53 times in the last 30 days.
Does WP Notices work with WordPress 7.1?
WP Notices is officially tested up to WordPress 4.6.30, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was WP Notices last updated?
The latest version, 1.2.4, was released on September 9, 2016 (10 years ago).
Who makes WP Notices?
WP Notices is developed and maintained by Lee Hodson (VR51).
What are the best alternatives to WP Notices?
The most popular alternatives to WP Notices are BuddyPress (90K+ installs), Simple Membership (40K+ installs) and Simple Membership After Log… (10K+ installs).
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