Auto Push automatically sends a notification to your subscribers every time you publish new content on your website. It is disabled by default and must be enabled manually.
Step 1 – Open Auto Push Settings #
In your WordPress admin, go to PushPilot → Notifications and click the Auto Push tab.
Step 2 – Enable Auto Push #
Under Auto Push Notifications, click the toggle to turn it on. When enabled the toggle will show blue.
Step 3 – Set Notification Triggers #
Under Notification Triggers, choose when notifications should be sent for each content type.
For Posts you can tick Publish, Update or both. For Pages you can tick Publish, Update or both.
If you only want notifications when you publish new content and not when you update existing content, tick Publish only.
Step 4 – Set Content Filters #
Under Content Filters you have two options:
Exclude Categories — Select any categories that should never trigger a notification. For example if you have an internal or draft category you do not want to notify subscribers about, tick it here.
Minimum Word Count — Set a minimum number of words a post must have before a notification is sent. This prevents very short or incomplete posts from triggering notifications. The recommended minimum is 100 words. The default is set to 10.
Step 5 – Set Up Your Notification Template #
Under Notification Template, customise how your automatic notifications will look.
Title — The heading of the notification. You can use placeholders to insert content automatically. The default is “New: {post_title}”.
Message — The body text of the notification. Default is {post_excerpt} which uses the post’s excerpt automatically.
Fallback Image — Upload an image to use when a post has no featured image. Click Upload to select one from your media library.
You can click any of the placeholder buttons at the bottom to insert them into the Title or Message fields:
- {post_title} — Title of the post
- {post_excerpt} — Short summary of the post
- {post_url} — Link to the post
- {site_title} — Your website name
- {author_name} — The post author
- {categories} — Post categories
Step 6 – Check the Live Preview #
On the right side you will see a Live Preview showing exactly how your notification will appear to subscribers on their screen. Check this before saving to make sure it looks right.
Step 7 – Save #
Click Save to activate Auto Push. You can click Reset to Defaults at any time to restore the original template.
Auto Push is now active. Every time you publish a new post that meets your filter settings, a notification will be sent to your subscribers automatically.