Email notifications for Editors for the review of pending posts

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Tagged: Content-submission forms, Toolset Forms

This topic contains 3 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Luo Yang 4 years, 2 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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November 16, 2020 at 9:22 pm #1846709

vlastaK

I need to achieve two-step publication process: An author will send the post for the review to an editor, who only has the right to publish it.
Until this point the Toolset Access plugin works fine. My question is: is there a possibility that Editors will get an email notification (or at least notification inside the WP admin), that there is a post pending for their review?
Thank you!
jiri

November 17, 2020 at 2:55 am #1846823

Luo Yang

Hello,

You can setup a post form for creating "post":
1) Setup the post status as "Pending review"
https://toolset.com/course-lesson/front-end-forms-for-adding-content/

2) Send an email notification to editor user:
https://toolset.com/course-lesson/send-notifications-when-someone-submits-the-form/

November 17, 2020 at 2:46 pm #1847527

vlastaK

Well, thank you, but I need it working on the backend, not frontend. Is this possible?
Thank you!
jiri

November 18, 2020 at 2:20 am #1847983

Luo Yang

Dear jiri,

There isn't such kind of built-in feature within Toolset plugins on the backend, you might consider custom codes, for example:
1) After author create a new "Pending review" post, use WP action hook "save_post" to trigger a PHP function:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/save_post/

2) In this PHP function, send the email with WP function wp_mail():
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_mail/