https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/notify-visitor-that-their-post-was-published Gravity Support Forums Topic: Notify visitor that their post was published en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:03:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/notify-visitor-that-their-post-was-published#post-32750 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:07:20 +0000 Chris Hajer 32750@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Did you use YOUR_CUSTOMFIELD_KEY literally, or change it to the name of the custom field, something like "visitor_email"? You should change this YOUR_CUSTOMFIELD_KEY to whatever custom field name you're using to store the visitor email.</p> <p>You need to change the name and email too.</p> <p>Also, did you add this code the your theme's functions.php?</p> <p>There is no need to send the post ID. It is passed automatically when the post is published. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/notify-visitor-that-their-post-was-published#post-32718 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:25:05 +0000 nicole 32718@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I found this code on this forum in order to notify readers that their submission has been published:<br /> <pre><code>function email_members($post_ID) { global $post; $email_to = get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;YOUR_CUSTOMFIELD_KEY&#39;, true); $headers = &#39;From: Name &lt;name@name.com&gt;&#39; . \\&quot;\r\n\\&quot;; $subject = &quot;Your subject here&quot;; $message = &quot;Your message here&quot;; wp_mail($email_to, $subject, $message, $headers); return $post_ID; } add_action(&#39;publish_post&#39;, &#39;email_members&#39;);</code></pre> <p>The problem is I am not sure how to use it. This is what I did:<br /> 1) I put "YOUR_CUSTOMFIELD_KEY" in the admin label of the email field.<br /> 2) I replaced Your subject here - with my subject and Your message here with my message.</p> <p>It still doesn't work. Should I put the post ID somewhere? If so, where? Anything else that I should do to get it to work? </p>