Title: Scott Reilly – Make WordPress Core

---

#  Author Archives: 󠀁[Scott Reilly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/)󠁿

 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/) [Scott Reilly](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coffee2code/)
6:00 pm _on_ August 4, 2012      

# 󠀁[WordPress.org Notifications](https://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/08/04/wordpress-org-notifications/)󠁿

Discussions can happen anywhere across the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community
site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you 
can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the
central location for community conversations and organization. [https://wordpress.org/](https://wordpress.org/)
ecosystem. Sometimes it can be difficult to know when you’re mentioned in a conversation
or to discover when discussions break out about topics of interest to you. For those
reasons we’d like to announce the availability of the WordPress.org Notifications
system.

With Notifications, an email is sent to you anytime your WordPress.org username 
is directly mentioned using the @username syntax. Via the feature’s adminadmin (
and super admin) page you can also specify additional search strings that if mentioned
by someone would also send a notification to you about that post or comment. The
notification emails include a link back to the original content, the name of the
person who made the mention, and a copy of the original content.

Notifications are currently enabled for the support forums and all of the make.wordpress.
org P2s. All such forum posts, blogblog (versus network, site) posts, and comments
are checked for mentions and search terms.

You can access the admin page for the feature via the “Notifications” link that 
appears on your WordPress.org profile page at https://profiles.wordpress.org/USERNAME(
where “USERNAME” is your WordPress.org account name). You must be logged into your
account in order to see and access the link.

Of course, if you’d rather not receive any notifications you have the option to 
opt out via the aforementioned Notifications admin page.

We hope the new feature will not only help foster more discussions, but also more
timely and active discussions.

PS – Just a heads up: a comment or forum post you make won’t trigger a notification
to yourself.