In the last months we have rolled out new notification features and other performance improvements.
If you use Pushpad Pro, in order to receive the update, you should make a small change to your service worker.
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Add web push to multiple subdomains with Pushpad
This tutorial explains how to add web push notifications to a domain and to all its subdomains using Pushpad.
Introducing VAPID
We’re happy to announce that Pushpad now supports VAPID (Voluntary Application Server Identification for Web Push).
Pushpad New Feature: add emoji to web push notifications
Pushpad fully supports Unicode characters and emoji.
Pushpad: improvements to deliverability and monitoring
Today we have deployed a new version of Pushpad which improves deliverability of push notifications and make it easier to find and debug any delivery failure.
Pushpad SDK Change: one subscription per browser (instead of multiple subscriptions for each uid)
We have made a change to Pushpad in order to make its use more intuitive. Now each device (browser) can have at most one uid (user ID) associated to it. Any new uid will replace the previous one. To reflect this change we have also made changes to the Javascript SDK. In general, you don’t need … Read more
Icons are no longer imported and resized
On 28 September 2016 we have changed how the icon_url of the Pushpad API works.
Add push notifications to WordPress in a few minutes
In this tutorial we’ll see how to add push notifications to your WordPress blog. Notifications are real push notifications, meaning that they are delivered even when the user is not on your website. This way you can re-engage users when you publish new contents.
We are going to use the official Pushpad plugin.