Email notifications (users and admin)

[Steve Johnson]

We are using the Events Calendar Pro and really think it’s great. However, we would like the ability for two alerts:

1. Alert the person who posted the event with an email when their event has been approved/posted.

2. Alert the admin that there is a new event pending that needs to be published.

Are there any settings or work-arounds to make this happen?

Thanks.

[George]

Hey @Steve,

These things are possible but are unfortunately not so without custom coding 🙁

We cannot help with custom coding but I have taken some to craft a free custom plugin for you to get you started on this – check out the code here: https://gist.github.com/ggwicz/cac1aa8265885b1440a3

If you add the code to your theme’s functions.php file, you should be able to achieve part 1 of your goals here; i.e., users who author events for review will get an email if their event has been approved and published 🙂

This works for me on my local testing site and I hope it works for you too!

I’m sorry that I don’t have the extra time to suss out your second request here; however, hopefully with the existing code I shared you can piece together similar code to achieve that. It should be rather simple, and you’d just need to use similar principles as the code I shared – but instead of dynamically generating the author email, you can just hard-code in the email address you’d like to be notified at 🙂 (you can use also use get_bloginfo( 'admin_email' )

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To learn more about the functions involved in doing this, check out these codex pages:

• https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_mail
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_bloginfo
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Status_Transitions

Cheers!
George

[Steve Johnson]

Appreciate the feedback.

[George]

No problem Steve! I hope my code helps out and that you can take it and build some of the other features yourself. Best of luck with your site! 🙂

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