BracketSpace

WordPress is the platform behind everything BracketSpace produces, from its notification and cron tools to email templates and free themes. Its users are WordPress site owners and developers, among them WooCommerce merchants and people who build forms with Gravity Forms. By its own count, its plugins are in use at more than 10,000 companies.

A notification plugin driven by merge tags

The main product is a notification plugin that lets site owners create their own alerts, or replace the default WordPress emails, without code. Merge tags insert data from the site into each message. Conditional logic decides which notifications are sent, so that only the messages that matter reach the inbox. Custom fields are supported, including Advanced Custom Fields, so any stored value can appear in a notification.

Extensions for specific scenarios

The company sells extensions for the notification plugin. Scheduled triggers let the owner set the exact time a message goes out, which suits follow-up emails or reminders. Other add-ons send alerts to chat applications about events on the site, and replace WooCommerce emails with fully customizable versions. The extensions can also be bought together as a single bundle.

Cron jobs made visible

Advanced Cron Manager lets owners see and control the scheduled tasks that WordPress runs in the background. The Pro tier also includes a logger, which captures notices, warnings and fatal errors raised by the functions behind each event, so a failing scheduled job can be traced to its cause. A demo of the Pro version can be tried before buying.

Email templates built in the block editor

Pretty Email is a template builder that uses the Gutenberg block editor. The layouts a user builds are converted automatically into responsive MJML code, so the finished emails display across different mail clients. The product is intended for notifications, account emails and messages from WooCommerce and Gravity Forms.

Documentation and open source

The company says it puts effort into documentation for both users and developers. It also publishes open source material: a collection of reusable code for plugins and themes, a free Gutenberg-ready theme from Poland, and a set of predefined WordPress admin elements that developers can copy into their own projects.