How to Automatically Email Contributors When Their Posts Are Published!

If your blog is Multi-authored then it can be very cool to let your email contributors know when their post are online. Today i am going to show you can do this automatically each time a post is published. Its very simple, nothing complicated.

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!