5 Best Post Status Notifications Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Post Status Notifications has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 5 closest alternatives to Post Status Notifications
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Archive Content with Archived Post Status
Closest match4.9 (36) 5,000+ active installsUse an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.
Shares the post status, status tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated February 17, 2026.
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bbPress Notify (No-Spam)
4.8 (39) 2,000+ active installsPowerful, customizable email notifications for bbPress and BuddyBoss forums — without the spam.
Shares the email notification tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated March 11, 2026.
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Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier )
4.6 (113) 4,000+ active installsBuild a waiting list for your products and notify customers by email based on product availability.
Shares the email notification tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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4.2 (37) 8,000+ active installsWrite the custom stock status with different colors for each woocommerce product, to show in product details and listing pages.
Shares the status tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated May 19, 2026.
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4.8 (29) 1,000+ active installsThe goal of this plugin is to show the “stock quantity” under each product in the shop, category and archive pages (wherever there is a loop).
Shares the status tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since February 11, 2025.
Switching from Post Status Notifications: common questions
What is the best alternative to Post Status Notifications?
Archive Content with Archived Post Status is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Post Status Notifications alternative has the most users?
Advanced Custom Stock Status, with 8,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Post Status Notifications alternative is rated highest?
Waitlist Woocommerce, rated 4.6 out of 5 by 113 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Post Status Notifications alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Post Status Notifications score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Post Status Notifications on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Archive Content with Archived Post Status is the closest match to Post Status Notifications by the data we track, and Advanced Custom Stock Status has the widest reach with 8,000+ active installs. Waitlist Woocommerce shipped the most recent release, on August 19, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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