{"id":3829,"date":"2016-04-27T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T12:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2016\/04\/27\/basic-configuration-settings-in-notifybot-for-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:49:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:49:47","slug":"basic-configuration-settings-in-notifybot-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/website-design\/basic-configuration-settings-in-notifybot-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Configuration Settings for Notifybot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last article, we covered what Notifybot does and <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/introduction-to-notifybot-for-wordpress\/\">how to install Notifybot in WordPress<\/a>. Now, since you have installed the plugin you\u2019re ready to set up the basic configurations for Notifybot to work. WordPress boasts a 5 minute install and Notifybot claims setup is much faster than that.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/login.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/login.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Login to your WordPress Dashboard, where you have installed Notifybot<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/notifybot-settings.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/notifybot-settings.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Scroll down the left-side menu pane and under the notifybot option, click <strong>Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/notifybot-licensekey.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/notifybot-licensekey.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Add your license key that you received when you purchased Notifybot<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/success-key.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/success-key.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Once your key has been validated you will get a \u201cdeactivate\u201d button displayed like below<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2> Remote Email Settings<\/h2>\n<p>This section is so you can send emails from Notifybot from a remote email location. In most instances you will send emails directly from the web server that your WordPress website is running from. However, if you do not have email access on your web server you can use the remote settings to send notifications. Below is the step to use remote email settings. <strong>For this example we\u2019ll use gmail as the remote email.<\/strong> Make sure you replace your SMTP user, password and from address with your own.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li>Under <strong>Remote Email Settings<\/strong> Fill in the fields below:<\/li>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-bordered\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Field Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Example<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>SMTP Host<\/td>\n<td>smtp.gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SMTP Port<\/td>\n<td>587<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SMTP User<\/td>\n<td>t.siss*****@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SMTP Password<\/td>\n<td>(Enter your password)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>From Address<\/td>\n<td>t.siss*****@gmail.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/remote-email-settings.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/notifybot\/remote-email-settings.png\" style=\"float:right; margin:0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Click <strong>\u201cSave Settings\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>At this point you are ready to <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/setting-up-your-first-notifybot-notification\/\">start creating your first notification<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last article, we covered what Notifybot does and how to install Notifybot in WordPress. Now, since you have installed the plugin you\u2019re ready to set up the basic configurations for Notifybot to work. WordPress boasts a 5 minute install and Notifybot claims setup is much faster than that. Login to your WordPress Dashboard,<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/website-design\/basic-configuration-settings-in-notifybot-for-wordpress\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Basic Configuration Settings for Notifybot | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to set up and configure Notfiybot to work in your WordPress site\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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