Send email when status turns from draft to published

• leanda

• February 5, 2016 at 11:26 pm

Hi there!

I have a front end form that creates a custom post type with a draft status that we then moderate and publish. I was wondering if it was possible to send the visitor an email once their post was published. I found the code below on the WordPress forums, but I’m not sure how to get it to send the email to an address from a ACF field. Any ideas?

Thanks

<?php
add_action( 'save_post', 'send_email' );
function send_email( $post_id ) {
// lets check if post is not revision
	if ( !wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ) {
		$post_url = get_permalink( $post_id );
		$subject = 'Image is approved';
		$message = "Your image is approved:\n\n";
		$message .= "<a href='". $post_url. "'>Click here to view</a>\n\n";
		$email = get_post_meta($post_id, 'email')
		//sends email
		wp_mail($email, $subject, $message );
	}
}
?>

• John Huebner

• February 7, 2016 at 1:53 am

is the name of the field email

change this line to:

$email = get_post_meta($post_id, 'email', true)

and change the email to the name of the ACF field if it’s different.

• leanda

• February 9, 2016 at 3:36 am

Just the ticket, thanks!

• emana

• February 2, 2022 at 5:10 am

hey Leanda,
I have tried your code. the get_post_meta() function don’t return anything,
could you please help me to solve this problem.

• John Huebner

• February 2, 2022 at 9:17 am

get_post_meta() will not work in this case for a new post. Using the above code the hook ‘save_post’ is probably happening before ACF fields are updated.

Try acf/save+post.