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Version 1.22   Updated Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 at 8:20pm

Draft Notification Plugin for WordPress

This WordPress plugin automatically emails the admin when a new draft is saved. The email contains the post’s title, the author, and a link. There is no options page currently, because there is really nothing to configure. The plugin now supports the new ‘pending’ status.

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Instructions

  • Download the above file, rename it from .txt to .php, and upload it to your plugins directory.
  • Enable the plugin.

Change Log

  • 07-01-09 Version 1.22 – You can now choose to send the emails to all users on or above a certain level (eg: editors).
  • 04-27-08 Version 1.21 – Updated to work with WordPress 2.5 and the ‘pending’ status.
  • 05-16-07 Version 1.2 – Updated to work with WordPress 2.2.
  • 10-20-06 Version 1.1 – The emails now contain the author’s name, instead of ID.
  • 04-22-06 Version 1.0 – First release.

Notes

Because of the way this plugin works, it also sends out an email when an existing draft has been saved again – This includes auto-saves. A solution to this is being researched.

By default, the author’s display_name is shown in the email. If you would prefer to see the login_name, or nice_name field, just look for the line in the script that says “Choose one of the following options to show the author’s name” and uncomment the option you would like to use.

Changing the user level for notifications

In the script, look for this line:

$email_user_level = 7;

This tells the script to send notification emails to anyone on, or above, that user level. Just change this for your particular needs.

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  1. 119
    Owen T
    4-2-13 2:50AM

    For those interested in the code to stop the draft saves being sent to any random number of users, use this code. You’ll need to replace the entire line of $editors and it should work fine. Does for me anyway! lol.

    $editors = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_id FROM {$tp}usermeta WHERE {$tp}usermeta.meta_key = 'wp_user_level' AND {$tp}usermeta.meta_value = " . $email_user_level);

  2. 118
    Helen
    3-11-13 10:50PM

    I tried to add a comment here about your plugins with some suggestions but it didn’t accept it, why? Is it closed or something?

  3. 117
    Helen
    3-11-13 10:47PM

    This is a great script and I wish it could get more developed.
    For example: the email is sent as soon as a post title is composed, but it would be nice if email would get sent out each time the posts get edited too, so the admin could monitor the changes right away.

    Other question is how to change user-level to be only for admin? I tried to put there 0 or 1, either way all the users who are contributors or authors also get emails.

    Thanks for your effort in developing a plugin that doesn’t exist there :)

  4. 116
    Andrew
    2-9-13 1:27AM

    I don’t know if it happened with the old version, but the current version of Wordpress emailed the notification out to all members because of the second query in your script. Good start though! I’m surprised there’s nothing in the repository for this process already.

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    11-21-12 1:43PM

    Does it work with the current version of wordpress?

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