Email Pending Posts – WordPress Plugin

Email pending posts is a WordPress plugin that I wrote, which will email a notification to the admin email of the blog, when a post’s status has been changed from DRAFT to PENDING. This may be a useful feature for moderated multi-author WordPress blogs, wherein contributors may write and SUBMIT FOR REVIEW, for a user with publication privileges to publish the post.

Download

emailpendingposts_ver0-2.php.zip 1.5 KB [Stable] … Tested with WordPress 2.8.4

Installation

Unzip “emailpendingposts_ver0-2.php.zip” and upload “emailpendingposts_ver0-2.php” to the “…/wp-content/plugins/” directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

No further action is necessary and there are no associated settings. It will send an email notification when a post has been submitted for review and its status is PENDING; similar to the notification sent when a comment is awaiting moderation.

License

This plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3). See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more information.

Use and Enjoy

If you use it, a link to your blog in the comments would be good
If you wish to develop on this plugin, please do and let me know the link so that I can publish it here.

Plugin Code

/* Plugin Name: Email Pending Posts Plugin URI: http://www.fayid.com/20090822/email-pending-posts-wordpress-plugin/ Version: 0.2 Author: Fayid Description: This plugin will email a notification when a post has been submitted for review, pending publication. Useful for moderated multi-author blogs. */ ?>

/* LICENCE: GNU GPLv3


This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3).
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ for more information.

*/

?>
function fayid_emailpendingposts($post_ID)  {
$blogtitle = get_bloginfo('name');

$installedurl = get_bloginfo('wpurl');

$editposturl = $installedurl."/wp-admin/edit.php";
$pendingpost = get_post($post_ID);

$posttitle = $pendingpost->post_title;

$poststatus = $pendingpost->post_status;

$postcontent = $pendingpost->post_content;
$postauthorid = $pendingpost->post_author;

$authorinfo = get_userdata($postauthorid);

$authorname = $authorinfo->display_name;

$authoremail = $authorinfo->user_email;

$authorurl = $authorinfo->user_url;
$receipients = get_option('admin_email');

$subject = "[".$blogtitle."] Please publish: \"".$posttitle."\" by ".$authorname;

$message = "A new post is ".$poststatus." for you to approve and publish.\n";

$message .= $editposturl."\n\n";

$message .= "Author:	".$authorname."\n";

$message .= "Email:	".$authoremail."\n";

$message .= "URL:	".$authorurl."\n\n";

$message .= "TITLE:	".$posttitle."\n\n";

$message .= "CONTENTS:\n\n".$postcontent;

$message_stripped = strip_tags($message);
wp_mail($receipients, $subject, $message_stripped);

}
add_action('draft_to_pending', 'fayid_emailpendingposts');

?>

To-do (need-based and time permitting)

Implement a Settings Page to enable users to specify notification email addresses