I have this little bit of code that sends me an email whenever a new posts is published by an author, but I want to be alerted to posts in ‘pending’ status by contributors too.
add_action('publish_post', 'send_admin_email');
function send_admin_email($post_id){
$to = 'myemail@email.com';
$subject = 'New Post on The Articist';
$message = "new post published at: ".get_permalink($post_id);
wp_mail($to, $subject, $message );
}
Can I have emails sent to me so I’m informed when posts are pending?
Code from userabuser’s first solution, this doesn’t seem to actually send emails(yes, I have changed it to my actual email address in the functions.php).
add_action( 'transition_post_status', 'pending_post_status', 10, 3 );
function pending_post_status( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) {
if ( $new_status === "pending" ) {
function send_pending_email($post_id){
$to = 'myemailaddresshere@mysite.com';
$subject = 'New Pending Post';
$message = "new post Pending";
wp_mail($to, $subject, $message );
}
}
}
There a couple of ways you can go about it depending on your use case and although example number 1 is perfectly valid, it might make more sense to employ the use of example number 2.
Example #1:
This will send you an email each time a post is updated/published with the status of “pending”. This will also email you if the status was already “pending” and the user hits save as pending again.
Example #2:
This will send you an email when a post is updated or published as pending only IF the previous status of the post was not already set to pending.
Choose your poison…
Additional resources:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status_Transitions
WordPress has a hook transition_post_status that might help. Take a look at http://blog.joshschumacher.com/2011/10/11/wordpress-transition_post_status-action/ for documentation on its usage.