Email client after post publish

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I am attempting the same. I found a post referencing using “Action Hooks” but it is beyond my understanding of code.

https://docs.wedevs.com/docs/wp-user-frontend-pro/developer-docs/wpuf_add_post_after_insert/

I saw this post on the wpuf help forum:

https://wedevs.com/support/topic/output-author-email-in-shortcode/

<?php $contact_email = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'contact_email', true );
echo do_shortcode('[contact email_to="'.$contact_email.'"]'); ?>

Can anyone help in setting this up? This may resolve this enquiry and help others. I am not a php programmer but with step by step assistance should be able to sort this.

Thanks

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