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That is on purpose.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is a good fit if more than one person writes on the site. For example a blog, a company website, a school, or a news site.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Key features<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Emails the site admin when someone publishes a post<\/li>\n<li>Optional hold-for-approval: a writer\u2019s post stays as a draft until the site admin publishes it. The site admin gets an email. After it goes live, the writer gets an email too<\/li>\n<li>Skip emails for certain people (for example Editors). The site admin is always skipped<\/li>\n<li>Works with blog posts, pages, and other content the site admin turns on<\/li>\n<li>Custom email subject and message, with short codes such as <code>{post_title}<\/code> that fill in real details<\/li>\n<li>Sender name and sender email are set automatically (the website name, and <code>site@yourwebsite.com<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>Settings, Tutorial, and Support in the left menu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>For step-by-step setup, open <strong>TW Post Approval Notifier \u2192 Tutorial<\/strong> after the plugin is activated.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Who is this for?<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Websites with more than one writer<\/li>\n<li>Business sites where a manager checks content before it goes live<\/li>\n<li>Schools or teams where several people add posts<\/li>\n<li>Anyone who wants a simple heads-up when new content appears<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Privacy \/ External Service<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin can optionally connect to an external support service operated by Technology Wisdom.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Service:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\">https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Terms of Use:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\/terms-of-use\/\">https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\/terms-of-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Privacy Policy:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\/privacy-policy\/\">https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\/privacy-policy\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The service is used to provide in-plugin support messaging, feedback forwarding, and announcements.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Opt-in consent (required before any connection):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>When you activate the plugin, an admin notice asks whether you want to allow the support connection. You can choose <strong>Allow Support Connection<\/strong> or <strong>No Thanks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>If you allow the connection, the plugin may send: site URL, site name, admin email, plugin name\/version, WordPress version, and PHP version. Support requests and review\/feedback details are sent only when you submit those forms. The plugin may also check weekly for announcements from Technology Wisdom.<\/li>\n<li>If you decline (or never accept), that data is <strong>not<\/strong> sent to the support portal. The plugin's core feature continues to work normally without the connection.<\/li>\n<li>You are never required to allow the connection to use the plugin.<\/li>\n<li>You can disconnect the support connection at any time from the plugin's Support page by choosing Disable priority support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Support and rating forms also include their own consent checkboxes before site information is included with a submission.<\/p>\n\n<p>Please review the service <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\/terms-of-use\/\">Terms of Use<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pluginsupport.technologywisdom.com\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> before enabling the connection.<\/p>\n\n<h3>License<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPL-2.0+ License.<br \/>\nYou may use, modify, and distribute it freely under the license terms.<br \/>\nFull license: https:\/\/opensource.org\/licenses\/GPL-2.0<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install the plugin from the <strong>Plugins<\/strong> screen, or upload the plugin folder<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Activate<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the left menu, click <strong>TW Post Approval Notifier<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Open the <strong>Tutorial<\/strong> page for how to set it up<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"who%20receives%20the%20emails%3F\"><h3>Who receives the emails?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>They go to the main admin email for the website. That address is shown under <strong>Settings \u2192 General<\/strong> in WordPress.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"who%20does%20the%20email%20come%20from%3F\"><h3>Who does the email come from?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The sender name is the website name. The sender email is set automatically to <code>site@<\/code> plus the website address (for example, <code>site@example.com<\/code>). These do not need to be entered in Settings.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20the%20site%20admin%20get%20emails%20about%20their%20own%20posts%3F\"><h3>Does the site admin get emails about their own posts?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. Posts published by a site admin never send an email. That cannot be turned on.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"is%20a%20technology%20wisdom%20support%20connection%20required%3F\"><h3>Is a Technology Wisdom support connection required?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. That is optional. 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