Notify visitor that their post was published

nicole
Member
I found this code on this forum in order to notify readers that their submission has been published:
```
function email_members($post_ID)  {
	global $post;
	$email_to = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'YOUR_CUSTOMFIELD_KEY', true);
	$headers = 'From: Name <name@name.com>' . \\"\r\n\\";
        $subject = "Your subject here";
	$message = "Your message here";
    wp_mail($email_to, $subject, $message, $headers);
    return $post_ID;
}

add_action('publish_post', 'email_members');
```
The problem is I am not sure how to use it. This is what I did:
1) I put "YOUR_CUSTOMFIELD_KEY" in the admin label of the email field.
2) I replaced Your subject here - with my subject and Your message here with my message.

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?
Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday August 17, 2011 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

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.

You need to change the name and email too.

Also, did you add this code the your theme's functions.php?

There is no need to send the post ID. It is passed automatically when the post is published.

Posted 13 years ago on Wednesday August 17, 2011 | Permalink