Post Pending Review Not Being Sent Out

  • Resolved Agrajag27

    (@agrajag27)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    We’re trying to replace Post Status Notifier which has become unstable of late and is also very performance intensive.

    I installed this plugin (deactivated PSN) and created my first Notification to nearly match one of only two we use:

    A notification to me and our editor when anyone sets a post status to Pending.

    The settings:

    -Post Pending Review
    -Plain Text
    – x Set “From” Name & Email, CC, BCC
    From Name and Email: slashcomment.com [email protected]
    -Send to: rich, russ (me and the editor)
    -Subject: /comment: A new post from [post_author] is waiting for Review
    -Body:
    There’s a new post by [post_author] waiting for Review.

    [post_title]

    [post_excerpt]

    [permalink]

    You can contact [user_firstname] via e-mail at [user_email].
    ————————————————————–

    That’s it. I created a test post, added an excerpt to it and set the status to Pending. Nothing. Remember, this is pretty much identical to PSN so spam should not be an issue. Test Post worked fine.

    (One other question: PSN has the concept of Status Before. Thus, if I set a post as Pending and then realize I have to update it and re-edit it and Save as Pending a second time, PSN won’t send out a new notification as that notification is set to only trigger if the previous state was Draft. Will this one send out a notification every time an author hits the Save as Pending button?)

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  • Plugin Author bnfw

    (@voltronik)

    Hi Agrajag27,
    Adding an edit link is on my roadmap to add to the next version ??

    Jack

    Thread Starter Agrajag27

    (@agrajag27)

    Another thought….

    Could caching be involved here???

    Our site is intensive so we use W3TC, Cloudflare and MaxCDN all together. That’s a lot of caching.

    I wouldn’t think so as the post hasn’t existed yet to be cached. Just trying to think outside the box.

    Plugin Author bnfw

    (@voltronik)

    No, sure.
    It’s a thought but as it doesn’t effect the WP Admin, I don’t think that’ll be the problem.

    I’ve just re-tested and sure enough, I am also getting the GUID instead of the permalink. I’ve also looked at the code for the PSN Lite plugin and it looks like it’s just getting the permalink. Really not sure what BNFW is doing differently here but I’ll keep investigating.

    Thread Starter Agrajag27

    (@agrajag27)

    Well, at least you now have a live test environment! I hate being the only one with a problem. Then again, it happened so often when I was young that I literally started a quality assurance testing company as a result. No joke. Things always break on me. <grin>

    Let me know if you need anything or what dev access to our site. You can reach me off the site at rich at slashcomment if need be.

    It’s not like this is a huge issue, but it is worth fixing. Our editors definitely look at that link and if the /category/ part of the url is wrong, they know right away to go fix it and who to yell at. hehe.

    Plugin Author bnfw

    (@voltronik)

    Ok, it looks like PSN are using a custom rewrite endpoint to generate a permalink ahead of the post being published. It’s not something that I would consider 100% WordPress as it might change and it’s possible that it wouldn’t work again afterwards.

    In your situation, I think it’s worth just outputting the contents of the shortcodes for categories, tags, etc. and making them look ‘pretty’ in the email so that they don’t get missed. You could also put something like:

    Temporary URL: [permalink]

    Hope this helps.
    Jack

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