GoalPrevail Tab Notifications

People open ten tabs and forget about yours. GoalPrevail Tab Notifications brings them back the way the big sites do it: the moment a visitor switches to another tab or minimises the browser, your page title starts to flash a friendly reminder, and a little (1) counter ticks up — just like an unread Facebook message. When they come back, the original title (and favicon) snap straight back into place.

It’s built for the highest-intent moment in any store: a shopper with a full cart who tabbed away to “think about it”.

• Title flashing — alternate between the real page title and your message (e.g. 👋 Come back!), or use the calmer “Replace” mode that swaps the title just once.
• Facebook-style counter — an optional (1), (2)… badge that counts how many times the visitor wandered off, so it reads like a genuine notification.
• Favicon badge — stamp a coloured dot (with the counter) over your site icon, drawn live in the browser. Falls back gracefully if the icon can’t be read.
• Cart & checkout aware — when WooCommerce is active, target cart and checkout only, with a dedicated cart message and an “only when the cart actually has items” guard.
• Flexible targeting — every page, WooCommerce cart/checkout, or a hand-picked list of pages (by ID, path like /pricing/, or home).
• Message rotation — list several lines and they cycle as the title flashes.
• Tunable — set the flash speed, a delay before it starts, and a “stop after N flashes” cap so it never becomes annoying.
• Two triggers — fire only when the tab is hidden (switch / minimise), or also when the whole window loses focus.
• Won’t nag you — hidden from logged-in administrators by default.
• Welcome them back — optionally greet returning visitors with a short message before the real title slides back.
• Know when to stop — choose who sees it (everyone, guests, or signed-in users), exclude pages you never want it on, and cap how many times it fires in one visit.
• Live preview — a mock browser tab right in the settings screen flashes as you type, so you can dial it in before going live.

Everything happens client-side and is fully reversible: the visitor’s original tab title and favicon are always restored when they return. Nothing is collected about you or your visitors, and the front end never contacts a third party.

Built by Goal Prevail — a small senior team building WordPress plugins, WooCommerce stores and SaaS. It adds nothing to your front end except the reminder you configure.

External services

This plugin queries the official WordPress.org plugin directory API when you open the GoalPrevail Plugins dashboard screen in wp-admin, to list the other plugins published by this author. It sends only the author name being searched for — no data about you, your site or your visitors — and caches the result for 24 hours. Nothing is requested on the front end of your site.

Service: WordPress.org plugin API — https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/
Terms of service: https://wordpress.org/about/
Privacy policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/