Author notification

You can hook into process of saving a post or page and then send an email to the author:

add_action( 'save_post', 'notifyAuthorOnPostModification' );

function notifyAuthorOnPostModification() {

  global $post;

  $author   = get_user_by( 'id', (int) $post->post_author );

  $to       = $author->data->user_email;

  $subject  = 'A post of yours has been modified';

  $message  = "Your Article '" . $post->post_title . "' (" . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . ') has been modified on ' . date( 'Y-m-d (H:i:s)', time() ); // Or something like that

  wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message );

}

Thanks i will test this and revert. Appreciate it

Hi Chris

This code works 100% perfectly when editing the posts from the back-end – thank you!

But to throw a spanner in the works now – we actually block the WordPress backend from the users and they modify their posts using the WP User Front-end plugin.

When we update posts from the front-end, we still receive the notification emails, however because the “edit post” page itself was created by the site administrator, that is where the emails go – instead of the post author.

Any idea how we could resolve this?

I’m not exactly familiar with the WP Use Front-end plugin but from what I see, it offers it’s own hook for after saving a post.

So instead of add_action( 'save_post', 'notifyAuthorOnPostModification' );
you could test add_action( 'wpuf_add_post_after_insert', 'notifyAuthorOnPostModification' ); and see if this will do the trick.

Hi Chris

Unfortunately this didn’t seem to work – but since in order to edit a post you first need to be signed in, we simply grabbed the current logged in user’s details and fired off the mail to him/her. (We have locked it down so that only logged in users can edit/delete their own posts.

Here is the code we used:

function notifyAuthorOnPostModification() {

global $post;

$username = wp_get_current_user();
$to = $username->data->user_email;
$subject = ‘Subject lines goes here’;
$user = $user_info->display_name;
$message = ‘Message goes here’;

wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message );

Thanks for your assistance!