Adding Custom Field to Notification email

[Mad Dog]

I’m trying to add two custom fields to the Notification Email by editing email-template.php and there are various methods I see in the forum and Documentation, none are working for me. The field name is ‘Instructor”. Seems it should be simple. Here’s the latest I’m using….what am I doing wrong?

<?php echo 'Instructor: ' . tribe_get_custom_field('Instructor', $event->ID); ?>

It returns the text but not the custom field.

Thanks!

[George]

Hey @Mad Dog,

I’m sorry that you’re having trouble with your customizations! Before we get started, I would like to highlight that we cannot offer any support for custom code.

With that being said, in general one thing that is not helping your code along is that the function tribe_get_custom_field(), singular, is these days a deprecated function.

So your best option would be to use the annoyingly-similar plural version of this function: tribe_get_custom_fields()

Here’s a rough version of your original code rewritten to use this function, which may not fix your problems outright, but is an essential step before any others:


$fields = tribe_get_custom_fields( $event->ID );

if ( isset( $fields['Instructor'] ) ) {
echo 'Instructor: ' . $fields['Instructor'];
}


I hope this helps!

[Mad Dog]

Thanks! The only change needed was to use $post instead of $event since the email is going out when you create the post.

<?php $fields = tribe_get_custom_fields( $post->ID );

You might pass along to someone to mark tribe_get_custom_field (singular!) as deprecated in the Documentation.

Thanks again for the assist!

MD

[George]

Great! Thanks for the update here @Mad Dog – best of luck with your site going forward 🙂

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