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title: Allowing users to subscribe to content change notifications
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

You can allow users to subscribe to notifications using the **Notification subscription** or **Content subscription** web part (_Content subscription_ is a specialized version of _Notification subscription_). Site visitors can subscribe to notifications about the following types of events:

- **Page has been created**
- **Page has been updated**
- **Page has been deleted**

![Subscribing to content change notifications using a web part](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k11/allowing-users-to-subscribe-to-content-change-notifications/subscribing_on_livesite.png "Subscribing to content change notifications using a web part")

## Setting up content change notifications using a web part

In this example, you will learn how to add the **Content subscription** web part to your site and set it up.

> **Note:** In order for you to see the full functionality, it is necessary to have a [SMTP server configured](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/configuring-kentico/configuring-smtp-servers.md) correctly.

1. Select the page on which you want to display the Content subscription web part.
2. Switch to the **Design** tab.
3. [Place](https://docs.kentico.com/k11/developing-websites/developing-websites-using-the-portal-engine/using-and-configuring-web-parts.md) the **Content subscription** web part.
4. Set the **Web part properties**.

   ![Setting the Content subscription web part properties](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k11/allowing-users-to-subscribe-to-content-change-notifications/setting_webpart_properties.png "Setting the Content subscription web part properties")
5. **Save & Close**.

### Verifying the content subscription functionality

Let's switch to the site visitor's perspective now:

1. Open **Live site** on the page you placed the web part on.
   - As notifications are available only for registered users, the web part should not be visible if you try signing out.
2. Type in your e-mail address into the **E-mail** field and click **Subscribe**.
3. Verify your subscription:
   1. Open the **My profile** application.
   2. Switch to the **Notifications** tab. You should see the notification subscription there.

### Verifying the notification functionality

Now you can verify that the whole setup works and sends notifications as it should:

1. Perform the event that you configured in the web part.
2. You should receive a new notification e-mail about the event.

## Managing user notifications

- Site administrators can manage subscriptions of particular users in the**Users** application. **Edit**a particular user and switch to the **Notifications** tab.
- Site visitors registered on the site can manage their subscriptions using the **My account** web part, on the **Notifications** tab.
- System users can can manage their own subscriptions in **My profile -> Notifications**.