Your recommendations for an Events Notification plugin?

[Kathleen Lane]

Hi There,

We have a really simple plugin called “POST NOTIFICATION” that allows us to check a box in the post-editor and send a simple email to members each time a post is published. We have set up our Calendar PRO plugin to show our events as posts (awesome!) but is there a way of integrating these “posts” into our email notification system?

If there is not this functionality in the plugin already, or a plugin that integrates well, how would you recommend sending an EMAIL notification to our members? Bear in mind that we have a readership that is mostly over 60, and things like “signing up for an RSS feed” would be off-putting. As a last resort, I’ve just been using our email marketing service outside of wordpress, but its a cumbersome process.

As always, I appreciate your help and insights!

[Casey D]

Hello aiabaltimore,

Thanks for contacting us!

This seems like an easy enough request, I’m surprised your current plugin isn’t sending out these event posts.

I installed and worked with the plugin a bit, and I think I might have an answer for you.

Officially, we cannot support this plugin. It is too old and cumbersome. I couldn’t even get it working on its own and it is beyond the scope of the forums.

However, if you edit the plugin file post_notification.php, starting on line 180, I think if you add the line

if($post->post_type == 'tribe_events')        $notify = get_option('post_notification_send_default');

it might work. You’ll have to play around.

Please make sure you have a recent backup of your site before you start! I’m assuming nothing bad will happen, but better to be safe than sorry.

I would maybe seek assistance on another forum. It seems like it would be easy to make happen, but unfortunately I cannot help further with this on these forums.

Does this make sense? Let me know if this doesn’t work for you.

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

[Casey D]

Hello aiabaltimore,

We typically close threads if there is no activity after two weeks. Feel free to create a new thread and reference this one to save you time.

Cheers!

– Casey Driscoll

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