OneSignal – Web Push Notifications

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192 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 120 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 49% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 70K.

1. ★★★★★ sinisterdx

   1.2y ago

   I have used OneSignal in the past and it was great then. Recently added it for a new project and nothing, NOTHING works. The plug in play option with the WordPress plugin is garbage. Kept getting service worker errors. Troubleshooting is a mess. Once those SW errors were fixed then more errors popped up. I would not recommend this to anyone. This topic was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by sinisterdx.

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2. ★★★★★ josenovo

   1.5y ago

   De la noche para la mañana aparecio uno notificacion que uno tenia que hacer un modanza a otro sitio (cambio de dominio), ahora no se puede configurar nada desde el plugin, si o si hay que entrar a su web y lo peor, la invitacion para suscribirse esta ahora en ingles, no se puede cambiar el idioma, no se puede personalizar ese mensaje, pregntas en el chat de soporte y solo te pasar link para leer todo el manual. Capos a ustedes se les ocurrio cambiar todo, porque tengo que perder tiempo en leer documentacion si yo no cometi el error, es mas facil que me digan anda a tal lugar para configurarlo, pero ni ustedes tienen idea, mas de 6 años usando este plugin y ahora lo elimine, una porqueria la verdad no tienen palabra, el mundo no se maneja en 1 solo idioma, tanto colocalos las plantillas multilenguaje, ¿porque no ponen multilenguaje su web?

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3. ★★★★★ Evandro Bertussi Malanquini

   1.5y ago

   In the past, OneSignal was one of the best push notification services. Unfortunately, today it is the worst. It was already presenting difficulties in the configuration, but now it is simply impossible to use. The errors are constant: The settings are not applied correctly The permission prompts do not work as they should There are conflicts between different prompts If you delete one, it does not allow you to add it again Even with two different prompts, they open identically I have detected more than 10 problems just trying to configure it. I have been trying to make it work for two days, without success. A few days ago it was already difficult, now it is unfeasible. This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Evandro Bertussi Malanquini. This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Evandro Bertussi Malanquini.

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4. ★★★★★ Raximjon Komiljonov

   1.9y ago

   works like a charm

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5. ★★★★★ Tony Bellardi

   1.9y ago

   Lo avevo attivato tempo addietro ma probabilmente non era gratuito ora SI ! grazie.

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6. ★★★★★ Oddusee

   2.1y ago

   It started of great with the videos. I dont know if its the same company. To many problems. one supports multisite and one doesn’t. The one that dont support multisite is one signal. The one that do support multisite is super pwa. Super Pwa does not show where you can subscribe when you set up app. I am sorry. Super PWA and One Signal is not the same. I will give it a shot again. This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Oddusee. This topic was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Oddusee.

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7. ★★★★★ damiendoumer

   2.2y ago

   This push notification tool is just awesome, and easy to setup and to use.

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8. ★★★★★ claudiolb

   2.4y ago

   Melhor plugin de notificação, que me ajuda muito em manter e ganhar novos assinantes.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.9.2 fix: derive web_push_topic from the post ID (#431) 3.9.2
2. — Version 3.9.1 fix: cancel scheduled notification when reverting a post to draft. (#427) 3.9.1
3. — Version 3.9.0 fix: [SDK-4340] skip enqueueing metabox assets for disallowed post types (#418) feat: show toast with notification feedback (#417) chore: bump “Tested up to” WordPress core version 3.9.0
4. — Version 3.8.1 Improve AJAX handler validation 3.8.1
5. — Version 3.8.0 add HTML meta tag for improved debugging 3.8.0
6. — Version 3.7.1 avoid falling back to saved post metadata for notifications options 3.7.1

All 3 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.9.4). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Low · 3.1 OneSignal – Web Push Notifications <= 3.8.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Post Meta Deletion via 'post_id' ↗
   2026-04-15 CVE-2026-3155 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.8.0 Patched in 3.8.1
2. Patched Medium · 5.3 OneSignal – Web Push Notifications <= 3.6.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Plugin Settings Update ↗
   2025-12-15 CVE-2025-13950 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.6.1 Patched in 3.6.2
3. Patched Medium · 6.4 OneSignal Web Push Notifications <=1.17.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2019-07-18 CVE-2019-15827 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.17.7 Patched in 1.17.8

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-20 70K+ → 60K+ down after 203 days in tier
2. 2026-01-29 80K+ → 70K+ down after 238 days in tier
3. 2025-06-05 90K+ → 80K+ down after 163 days in tier
4. 2024-12-24 100K+ → 90K+ down after 2181 days in tier
5. 2019-01-04 90K+ → 100K+ up after 94 days in tier
6. 2018-10-02 80K+ → 90K+ up after 60 days in tier
7. 2018-08-03 70K+ → 80K+ up after 63 days in tier
8. 2018-06-01 60K+ → 70K+ up after 61 days in tier

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OneSignal – Web Push Notifications: 60K+ active installs, 4.3★ (360 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/onesignal-free-web-push-notifications