I’ve been trying to get an email notification to fire when a new custom post type (in this case, “event”), is published. I’ve tried a few things and settled down to this simple example that, I imagine, should work just fine.
function admin_event_notification()
{
$message = "Test";
wp_mail( 'jonathan@sabramedia.com', 'New Event', $message );
}
add_action( 'new_event', 'admin_event_notification', 10, 3 );
Any ideas what I’m missing?
Once that works, the next step is accessing $post to get the title and permalinks, etc. I think I’ve got that covered, but any ideas are welcomed.
'new_event'is not a default wordpress hook. Hence the above will only work if you includedo_action( 'new_event' );in your custom post type’s saving/publishing function.Your usage of
wp_mailis otherwise correct.See the codex on
do_actionfor reference.