How to automatically email contributors when their posts are published

How to automatically email contributors when their posts are published

If you’re running a multi-authored blog, it can be very cool to let your contributors know when their post are online. Today’s recipe will show you how to do this automatically each time a post is published.

Nothing complicated with this recipe. Copy the code below and paste it on your functions.php file. Then save the file, and you're done!

function wpr_authorNotification($post_id) {
   $post = get_post($post_id);
   $author = get_userdata($post->post_author);

   $message = "
      Hi ".$author->display_name.",
      Your post, ".$post->post_title." has just been published. Well done!
   ";
   wp_mail($author->user_email, "Your article is online", $message);
}
add_action('publish_post', 'wpr_authorNotification');

Thanks to Daniel Pataki for the great piece of code!

12 Responses

Mattias

Nov 10 2011 17:03

Interesting Can you trigger the function when a post i updated too?

The Frosty

Nov 10 2011 19:01

I don’t think there is a need for the global $wpdb;.

Onnay Okheng

Nov 11 2011 04:56

Yeah, I think “global $wpdb” doesn’t need for this recipe

Randy

Nov 11 2011 16:02

I was going to say the same thing about globalizing the db class. Also, the name of the function does not match the callback. (authorNotification != wpr_authorNotification)