Settings

Licence

This screen is where you enter your licence key for the plugin. Your licence key can be found in your original purchase email, or in My Account.

General

General plugin settings and options can be found on this screen.

My Subscriptions Page

Select the page that contains the [cn_subscriptions] shortcode. Any Verify or Unsubscribe links at the bottom of emails are redirected to this page.

Exclude Post Types

If you don’t want one or more particular post types to show in the front-end Content Notify form for users to subscribe to, you can add it here in order to exclude it.

Exclude Authors

If you don’t want one or more authors to show in the front-end Content Notify form for users to subscribe to, you can add it here in order to exclude it.

Exclude Taxonomies

If you don’t want one or more taxonomies to show in the front-end Content Notify form for users to subscribe to, you can add it here in order to exclude it.

Exclude Terms

If you don’t want one or more terms from any taxonomy to show in the front-end Content Notify form for users to subscribe to, you can add it here in order to exclude it.

Include Empty Terms

By default, WordPress, and in turn, Content Notify, hides any terms from a taxonomy field that don’t have any posts associated with them (otherwise known as ’empty terms’). You can change this to show empty terms instead of hiding them, here.

Disable ‘Subscription Options’ Metabox

Here, you can add, from a pre-populated list of public and private post types, any that you’d like to disable the ‘Subscription Options’ metabox on.

Styling

Anything to do with styling the plugin can be found on this screen.

Style Compatibility Mode

Content Notify uses Bootstrap 5 styles by default however, if your site is using Bootstrap 4 and you’re seeing styling issues (CSS conflicts), this option allows you to switch to using Bootstrap 4 styles for Content Notify in order to improve compatibility.

Disable CSS Styles

If you wish to disable the default, built-in CSS stylesheet that comes with Content Notify (which includes a small subset of Bootstrap styles), tick the checkbox that says ‘Check this to disable all included CSS styling added by Content Notify’.
This is useful if your theme already uses Bootstrap styles (many do) and you don’t need to load them again in Content Notify.

Load CSS/JS on all Pages

If your site is using Content Notify in a pop-up or modal, you may need to check this option in order to ensure the necessary plugin javascript and CSS is loaded correctly. This option also helps if your site is overriding or causing issues with a Content Notify subscription form. This option overrides the ‘Disable CSS Styles’ checkbox, above.

Security

CAPTCHA settings and options can be found on this screen.

CAPTCHA Service

This allows you to switch between No Service, Cloudflare Turnstile, and Google reCAPTCHA v3 when using a CAPTCHA field on your Content Notify forms.

Site and Secret Keys

The fields shown next will depend on the CAPTCHA service chosen however, all services require the input of a Site Key (public) and a Secret Key (private). These can be entered on this screen and are required for a CAPTCHA field to work.

CAPTCHA Theme

Some CAPTCHA services allow you to choose between the Default (llight/dark UI set in the visitor’s operating system), or specifically choose a Light or Dark theme for the CAPTCHA field. Where available, you can choose this here.

Banned List

Any names or email addresses added to this list will be prevented from creating a subscription via the Content Notify subscription form. Each line of this list will be used to check against the first name, last name (if provided), first name and last name (if the last name is provided), or an email address. Only one name or email address should be added per line.

Sending

This page allows you to add and legal information pertaining to your business that should displayed in every email send by Content Notify. Filling this page out in full will help to improve legal compliancy in your emails, in relation to laws such as GDPR/COPPA/LGPD/CASL, etc.

Plain Text Emails

Additionally, if you’d like to send all emails from Content Notify in Plain Text as opposed to HTML, you can do that via the option on this page.

Disable Subscription Verification

When someone creates a new subscription by filling out the Content Notify subscription form, they are sent an email asking to confirm their email address before their subscription is verified. Disabling this is useful if the subscriber is also a WordPress user, and has therefore already verified their email address. Ticking this option will disable the subscription verification email and auto-verify new subscriptions immediately.

Admin Alert for New Subscribers

If you’d like the main site admin to be alerted when a subscriber verifies their subscription, tick the ‘Send an alert to the Site Admin when someone verifies their subscription.’ checkbox.

Email Address for Admin Alerts

By default, admin emails are sent to the main site administrator set in Settings > General > Administration Email Address however, you can change this to any other email address here if you wish. This is helpful to change if someone else oversees the marketing and content subscription aspects of your site, instead of the site admin.