Email notification to admin about pending event?

[Eva]

Hey,

Is it possible with the Events Calendar Pro, that if a contributor adds an event and clicks on “Submit for Review” an admin gets an email notification about that pending event?

If it works only with Community Events: Can I name a specific admin for getting these notifications or is every admin informed about new events?

Thank you!
Eva

[Barry]

Hi Eva,

Great question!

Is it possible with the Events Calendar Pro, that if a contributor adds an event and clicks on “Submit for Review” an admin gets an email notification about that pending event?

This isn’t something Events Calendar PRO will do by itself, but you could certainly implement this as a customization (perhaps there are even existing plugins available that may help).

If it works only with Community Events: Can I name a specific admin for getting these notifications or is every admin informed about new events?

Community Events can certainly do this – and yes, you can specify one or more email addresses for the alerts to be sent to 🙂

[Eva]

Hi Barry,

Thank you for your quick reply. I am thinking about buying Community Events. But please, can you give me a hint how to implement the customized email notification – or what kind of plugin I have to look for?

Thanks again.

Eva

[Barry]

Hi Eva,

There aren’t too many hints I can offer here, I’m afraid.

There may be plugins out there which detect when users belonging to the contributor role submit events and fire off an email to the site administrator – or there may be plugins which almost do this and which you can adapt to fit your own needs.

Really it’s a case of going out and searching for them, I’m afraid I don’t know of any off the top of my head and don’t have any recommendations to make – the reason I suggested this is that it just sounds like the sort of thing someone may already have written a solution for.

In terms of rolling this out as a customization, again there isn’t too much I can offer you here – the basic mechanics would be adding a custom action to “listen” for events being submitted for review, then some code to conditionally send an email to the administrator … but you’d need a basic working knowledge of WordPress development to put this in place and I’m afraid we can’t help with customizations like this one here.

[Barry]

Hi!

It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this topic.

• Need help with anything else? Go right ahead and post a new topic, one of the team will be only too happy to help
• Still need help with this issue and need to re-open it? Again, please simply create a new topic and link to this one to provide the team with some context

Thanks!

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