Browsing the web, you may have noticed that most websites use a double opt-in process for subscribing the users to notifications. Basically these websites first show a custom prompt (designed with HTML / CSS) that asks you if you are interested in the notifications, then, when you click the subscribe button, they display another prompt (with native appearance) asking you if you really want to allow the notifications from the website. Isn’t one prompt enough?
Continue reading “The double opt-in for web push notifications”What is the character limit for web push notifications?
Are you wondering what is the maximum length of text that you can include in your web notifications?
Continue reading “What is the character limit for web push notifications?”Multilingual notifications with Pushpad
It’s easy to create segments based on the user preferred language. In this way you can send different notifications to users with different language preferences.
Continue reading “Multilingual notifications with Pushpad”The new Pushpad widget for web push notifications
We are happy to announce that we have just released a new feature in our Javascript SDK: we provide a widget that makes it easy to display a custom prompt, a floating action button or a subscribe button in order to collect subscribers.
Continue reading “The new Pushpad widget for web push notifications”How to add a service worker to WordPress
There are many reasons to add a service worker to WordPress: for example you may want to improve caching or add web push notifications. Let’s see how to do that.
Continue reading “How to add a service worker to WordPress”Why some web push notifications are not delivered to the browser?
A notification that is successfully delivered to the browser push service, may not reach the end user for various reasons:
Geolocation with Pushpad
Would you like to send web push notifications only to people located in a given place? If you use Pushpad you can implement that in different ways. Continue reading “Geolocation with Pushpad”
Updating the service worker
Are you stuck with an old version of the service worker or your imported scripts are not being updated as you expect? This guide shows you how to ensure that your service worker and the imported scripts are updated in a timely manner. Continue reading “Updating the service worker”
Pushpad: new features for faster delivery of web push notifications
Now you can use Pushpad for delivering time-sensitive messages. For example you can notify urgent alerts or incoming phone calls. Continue reading “Pushpad: new features for faster delivery of web push notifications”
How to send a notification only to a random subset of users
What if you want to send a web push notification only to 10% of your users? This can be useful for example for testing and for measuring CTR for that notification before sending it to all your users. There are many ways to achieve that, but in this tutorial we will show a simple method with tags. Continue reading “How to send a notification only to a random subset of users”