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title: Admin Notice Types
description: "WordPress provides four different ways to show messages in the admin area. These four are common to many types of software, not just WordPress. - **Success**: This means the the user triggered an operation which was successful. - **Error**: This…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/admin-notice-types/"
updated: "2025-02-13"
category: PublishPress Capabilities / Admin Notices
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# Admin Notice Types

WordPress provides four different ways to show messages in the admin area. These four are common to many types of software, not just WordPress.

- **Success**: This means the the user triggered an operation which was successful.
- **Error**: This means the the user triggered an operation which was unsuccessful.
- **Warning**: There may be some issues with the currently selected settings.
- **Info**: The user needs to be aware of a special message.

WordPress has specific designs for these types of message:

- **Success**: green left border.
- **Error**: red left border.
- **Warning**: yellow/orange left border.
- **Info**: blue left border.

Here is a screenshot showing how these notices used in the WordPress admin area:

![Error warning in WordPress](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/error-messages-1024x295.png)

These next screenshots show real-life examples of these notices in the WordPress admin area.

![Post deleted message success](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/post-deleted-message.png)

![Post error message](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/user-not-changed-message.png)

![Post warning message](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/wordpress-update-notice.png)

If you want technical details on how these notices work, [visit this official WordPress documentation](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/admin_notices/). These colors are reflected in the "Admin Notices" area of the [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) screen. In the image below, this feature is organizing 2 success messages, 3 error messages, 1 warning message, and 1 info message.

![Admin Notices toolbar](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/notices-toolbar.png)