# Notifications for 'highlight' words

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 26, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280 "2015-05-26T22:00:36Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-for-highlight-words/29280/2 "2015-05-26T22:25:50Z")

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I believe you have all the hooks available to do that in a plugin. Listen for `post_created` and `post_updated` and generate notifications whenever the raw contains one of the highlighted words.

The _hardest_ part will probably be the UI 😉

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