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Send email on new post published in WordPress

Stanislav KhromovStanislav Khromov

Here’s a quick snippet for sending an email when a new post is published. It also works for CPT (Custom Post Types).

add_action('future_to_publish', 'send_emails_on_new_event');
add_action('new_to_publish', 'send_emails_on_new_event');
add_action('draft_to_publish' ,'send_emails_on_new_event');
add_action('auto-draft_to_publish' ,'send_emails_on_new_event');


/**
 * Send emails on event publication
 *
 * @param WP_Post $post
 */
function send_emails_on_new_event($post)
{
    $emails = "email_1@mail.com, email_2@mail.com"; //If you want to send to site administrator, use $emails = get_option('admin_email');
    $title = wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_title($post->ID));
    $url = get_permalink($post->ID);
    $message = "Link to post: \n{$url}";

    wp_mail($emails, "New post published: {$title}", $message);
}    

This will result in an email like this:

[Title] New post published: Your Post

Link to post:
http://site.com/your-post/

If you need to do this for a specific post type only you can have a conditional inside the filter function:

...
if(get_post_type($post->ID) === 'page') //post, page, attachment or whatever other CPT you may have
{
    //use wp_mail() here!
}
...

Note: This code was updated on 2014-10-31.

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Comments 14
  • Abdulrahman
    Posted on

    Abdulrahman Abdulrahman

    Reply Author

    Thank you for this e-mail. We will put it to functions.php of our theme or we will put it in other page???


    • Stanislav Khromov
      Posted on

      Stanislav Khromov Stanislav Khromov

      Reply Author

      You can put this in functions.php of the active theme, it will work. :)


  • Aljun
    Posted on

    Aljun Aljun

    Reply Author

    Hello.. I think this is a good addition to my plug-in… but how i can put this to my plug-in? that when a user click publish, it will notify me through email? Thank you! Looking forward to your response.


    • Stanislav Khromov
      Posted on

      Stanislav Khromov Stanislav Khromov

      Reply Author

      Just put the above code (first block) in the PHP file for your plugin. :-)


      • Aljun
        Posted on

        Aljun Aljun

        Reply Author

        Thank you! It worked :D


  • Yuriy
    Posted on

    Yuriy Yuriy

    Reply Author

    Hi, how to make so that for N minutes before the time of the publication of a pending post (N is set from the admin panel) to the email administrator sends a text message, fill out the same from the admin panel


  • Yuriy
    Posted on

    Yuriy Yuriy

    Reply Author

    And this is must be a plugin for theme


  • jake
    Posted on

    jake jake

    Reply Author

    Trying to get your code to work but i can’t figure out what i am doing wrong..

    add_action(‘future_to_publish’, ‘send_emails_on_new_event’);
    add_action(‘new_to_publish’, ‘send_emails_on_new_event’);
    add_action(‘draft_to_publish’ ,’send_emails_on_new_event’);
    add_action(‘auto-draft_to_publish’ ,’send_emails_on_new_event’);

    /**
    * Send emails on event publication
    *
    * @param WP_Post $post
    */
    function send_emails_on_new_event($post)
    {
    $email = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ’em’, true );
    $orderno = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘orderno’, true );
    $name = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘trackingname’, true );
    $track = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘trackingno’, true );
    $message = “Hello \n{$name}, Thank you for shopping! Your order \n{$orderno} has shipped via UPS and you can track it at https://wwwapps.ups.com/tracking/tracking.cgi?tracknum=\n{$track}. We thank you for your business and visit us at REDACTED if you need anything.”;

    if(get_post_type($post->ID) === ‘tracking’) //post, page, attachment or whatever other CPT you may have
    {

    wp_mail($email, “Your Order {$orderno} has Shipped”, $message);
    }

    }


  • Ketan
    Posted on

    Ketan Ketan

    Reply Author

    Hello,

    Above code works good for me. But i want to add HTML for on email. so please help me how we can set HTML on that code. I also want to set image on that email.

    So please help me.

    thanks.


    • Stanislav Khromov
      Posted on

      Stanislav Khromov Stanislav Khromov

      Reply Author

      Sorry, that’s outside the scope of this article. Try searching in Google on how to send HTML emails using wp_mail().


  • Wilhelm
    Posted on

    Wilhelm Wilhelm

    Reply Author

    Hi

    Can you advice on how to send the mail to the author as well


  • Laura
    Posted on

    Laura Laura

    Reply Author

    That is a very helpful example. It could come in handy for a lot of people.