Peter’s Useful Crap

72 Responses to “Version 1.3.4: Peter’s Collaboration E-mails for WordPress”

1. November 1st, 2007 at 11:07 pm
   
   n-blue says:

   It’s interesting and useful for multiple authors blog. Can we impliment this for commenter. Like, email commenter when their comment that hold is approved.

2. November 2nd, 2007 at 4:11 am
   
   sir.peterson says:

   Hi,

   I have localized this plugin to Slovak language(UTF-8)

   Loocated at:
   http://www.blogspot.sk/wp-content/plugins/peters_collaboration_emails_sk.phps

   Keep up the good work, thanx.
   P.

3. November 2nd, 2007 at 5:26 pm
   
   Peter says:

   sir.peterson: Thanks for the Slovak translation. This is now posted under the main download link.

   n-blue: Here’s code for a plugin that e-mails the commenter when their held comment is approved:

   http://www.theblog.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/email_on_approve.txt

   I don’t intend on providing support on such a plugin or developing it further, but anybody can feel free to use the code in there.

4. November 2nd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
   
   n-blue says:

   Thank you, Peter.

5. November 3rd, 2007 at 3:36 am
   
   Daniel Condurachi says:

   I wish you all you need to develop this good idea

6. December 15th, 2007 at 1:14 am
   
   houserocker says:

   thanks for this great and very easy to use plugin!!

7. January 13th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
   
   Rosyidi says:

   it will be great if there is a option menu.

8. January 13th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
   
   Peter says:

   What options would you like? Or do you mean the same options that are in the plugin file, but in a graphical user interface?

9. January 14th, 2008 at 3:07 am
   
   Rosyidi says:

   Yes, in graphical user interface, so user can easily configure this plugin.
   Couse some people don’t know to edit on php code, me too.
   I think this is the only one plugin for contributor. So, that’s great. thank’s a lot.
   Sorry bad English

10. January 17th, 2008 at 6:58 am
    
    Steve says:

    I put this in my school WPMU installation. It works great! Prior to installation, I had to ferret through each blog taking 8-10 mouse clicks whether they had a new post or not. Now I can approve that which is submitted and can do so with three clicks including opening the email! What a time saver!

    You extended the utility of the recently (and incompletely) implemented “submit for review” option and made it truly usable.

    Your commenting makes configuring straight forward. For some reason WPMU does not allow you to edit the file via the backend, rather one has to access it via ftp to edit. No problem for me or anyone who runs a WPMU installation.

    Nice job! I’ll recommend this to all others who run educational blogs that require moderating.

    Thanks!

11. January 22nd, 2008 at 12:47 am
    
    Spiewgels says:

    I hate being the idiot here but how exactly do I input the different editor’s e-mail addresses for the part where I add everyone that I want to be able to moderate posts ($pce_mods)? Do I just enter another e-mail address followed by a semi-colon? I’ve tried several different things and keep messing it up.

12. January 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
    
    Peter says:

    Hi Spiewgels,

    Hi! Here's an example if you wanted to add 5 e-mail addresses, not including the address that is configured as the administrator on your WordPress installation:

    Replace:
    $pce_mods[] = get_option('admin_email');

    With:
    
$pce_mods[] = 'example_addy@hotmail.com';
$pce_mods[] = 'example_addy1@hotmail.com';
$pce_mods[] = 'example_addy2@hotmail.com';
$pce_mods[] = 'example_addy3@hotmail.com';
$pce_mods[] = 'example_addy4@hotmail.com';


13. January 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
    
    Spiewgels says:

    Thanks very much, I’m trying it now and will let you know how it works out!!!

14. January 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
    
    Spiewgels says:

    Okay, everything seems a go! thank you very much

15. January 25th, 2008 at 7:27 am
    
    Matt Wiebe says:

    Thanks for implementing this plugin. It’s quite shocking that this isn’t already a part of the WP core. What good is a “pending review” status if you don’t know about pending posts?

16. January 30th, 2008 at 8:57 am
    
    lafig3 says:

    Hello,

    this extension is a very good idea, but I’m having trouble getting it to work. I think my php mail() function is working correctly, because I receive mails when users register on the blog. But when save a post with the pending for review option, I do not receive any mail. What can be the problem?

    Thanks

17. January 30th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Hi lafig3,

    Without knowing more details it is difficult to guess what the problem is. This plugin should send an e-mail when a Contributor user clicks the “Submit for review” button, when the status of a post becomes “pending”. Another e-mail is sent when that post is approved.

    If you are merely saving a post, nothing should happen. Also, nothing should happen if you are an Administrator, Editor or Author user (on default installs) and you make a new post.

18. January 31st, 2008 at 3:23 am
    
    lafig3 says:

    Thanks! I was saving the post as admin, that’s why I wasn’t receiving any warnings.

    This is a very useful plugin, thank you!

19. March 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
    
    Jeromy says:

    Found a bug (maybe you're already aware). If the contributor submits for review, than comes back and assigns a category, and clicks 'submit for review' again, it automatically approves and publishes the post. Not an issue for me cause I actually hide that panel to my authors. Just thought you should know. I'm using WP 2.3.3 with php5

20. April 5th, 2008 at 11:56 am
    
    Peter says:

    Hi Jeromy,

    Thanks for pointing out the issue with the "submit for review" feature. Is this a problem only with my plugin? I was unable to reproduce this problem with and without my plugin with WordPress 2.3.3 and WordPress 2.5.

21. April 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
    
    Ken says:

    Im having the same issue as jeromy. contributors are inadvertently publishing posts without my approval. I wasn't sure how they were doing it until I realized they were going back and making changes and re-submitting before I had a chance to approve.

22. April 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
    
    Peter says:

    I still cannot re-produce this error after multiple attempts, using a "contributor" user, making edits, changing categories, etc. Are you running any other plugins that might affect the publishing process?

23. April 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Ah, I have finally reproduced this bug with a Contributor user account by first saving a draft, changing the status to "Private", then finally submitting it for review. The good news is, my plugin isn't what's causing it and this bug was supposedly fixed in WordPress 2.5 as reported here.

24. April 15th, 2008 at 9:53 am
    
    shammi says:

    what is the user is not a registered user. that creats a blog. will he get the mails when approved

25. April 15th, 2008 at 10:22 am
    
    Peter says:

    Hi shammi, this plugin only covers articles being approved and published so no, this plugin does not send an e-mail when a user account is approved.

26. May 10th, 2008 at 9:22 am
    
    baron says:

    hi there .thanks for plugin:

    Does anybody know if tis script is compatible with Wordpress 2.5.1 ?

    Thanks in advance for any help on this!

    regards

27. May 10th, 2008 at 10:14 am
    
    Peter says:

    Yes, it is compatible with WordPress 2.5.1.

28. July 7th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
    
    Kris Rzepkowski says:

    Hi Peter,
    I'm trying to do what you said in your January 22nd comment. I'd like to have the email go to one other person beside the site admin. When I put in exactly what you have written as an example email address

    $pce_mods[] = ‘example_addy@hotmail.com’;

    and click Update file (WP 2.5.1 Plugin editor) I get a fatal error and the plugin deactivates. This is the error:

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '@' in /home2/ithirewi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/peters_collaboration_emails.php on line 26

    Any ideas?? Thanks.

29. July 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Hi Kris, this is almost certainly a case of weird characters. Be sure to use a straight apostrophe (or "single quote") instead of any curly version.

30. July 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
    
    Kris Rzepkowski says:

    Many thanks Peter. That was the fix. I copied the text right from your comment rather than from a text editor. I'm not experienced enough to recognize the cause. Great plugin!

31. July 11th, 2008 at 6:54 am
    
    sean says:

    Works like a charm.

    One feature I would like to see is the ability to assign a specific editor to a specific (or multiple) contributor(s). Our company has multiple departments that would use a work flow of a lower level contributor that writes a post and then their specific department head would act as editor and approve that post.

    Thanks for a great plug in!

32. July 13th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
    
    Alasdair Davies says:

    Fantastic plugin, and great work. Thank you!

    I too like Sean, would be delighted if it proves possible to modify the plugin to select an email address to send a notification to based on the category the contributer posted a blog.

    Is such a thing possible?

    Many kind regards,

    Alasdair

33. July 13th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Yes, it would certainly be possible to craft a solution with different "approvers" being notified based on the user who posted it (Sean's need). I have a possible framework for this in my head but can't guarantee that I'll be able to get to it any time soon due to other work taking more priority. Anybody want to help?

    Setting different approvers based on the category (Alasdair's need) is more difficult but still do-able. If this is built on top of user-dependent approvers, this would require a more sophisticated set of approval rules. (Check by user, then category or vice versa?) And what if it's posted to multiple categories? Which category would take precedence?

34. July 13th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
    
    Alasdair Davies says:

    Hi Peter,

    I think Sean's needs would work perfectly looking at the solution again. Different approvers would do the same job, and prevent the need to specify which category should take precedence.

    I'd love to help update the plugin, but am more a designer than a coder I'm afraid – hopefully someone can help you with the framework though.

    Keep up the good work.

35. July 14th, 2008 at 5:47 am
    
    sean says:

    Like Alasdair, I am more of a designer than a developer – I am afraid I don't know my way around php/mysql enough to be much help here. Perhaps, seeing that there is a desire for this type of functionality among the community, some one with a little more expertise may be able to jump in and take a shot at it. Thanks guys!

36. July 23rd, 2008 at 7:21 am
    
    Philix says:

    Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for.

37. July 28th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
    
    Alasdair Davies says:

    Thanks for the update Peter,

    Downloading it now – Speedy update too. Add a donation button to your site and I'll send you a thank you.

    Cheers,

    Alasdair

38. August 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
    
    Pxl_Buzzard says:

    I love the idea of the plugin; however, I'm have 4 authors that I check before I publish their posts. Would it be possible to code in different user level support?

39. August 3rd, 2008 at 3:42 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Hi, I'm not 100% what you mean, but I think this is already possible. You would 1) Assign these users the built-in Contributor role, then 2) Add them to a group in my plugin with you as the moderator.

40. August 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
    
    Pxl_Buzzard says:

    But see, I like them having the power that comes with being an Author still. Or what if I wanted to check an editor's work? I think it would be beneficial to add the choice of user roles to the plugin.

41. August 3rd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
    
    Peter says:

    So you mean: even if those users can immediately post their changes (and have those changes live on the site), you still want to be notified whenever anything written by them has been updated. If so, this is certainly do-able, although I'll have to take some time to think about whether this would fit with the intention of the plugin.

42. August 5th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
    
    Jean-Paul Horn says:

    Love the plugin. This is really useful for our multi-author blog. Could you please add a fix for table prefixes in your next version? Our table names aren't prefixed with wp_, but with our websitename. Your plugin creates two tables with the standard wp_ prefix and has some usermeta checks against wp_capabilities, which is called example_capabilities for our database. The prefix may be configured in wp_config.php if I recall correctly.

    I have already fixed this is in my own install, but it might be handy for future versions

43. August 6th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Thanks for the feedback, Jean-Paul. I've now addressed both these issues in version 1.0.1.

44. August 7th, 2008 at 12:24 am
    
    Jean-Paul Horn says:

    Thanks for the quick fix, Peter. Again, a very useful plugin!

45. September 14th, 2008 at 11:21 am
    
    Daisy says:

    I see some others have requested this…but it would be really great to be able to assign an notification email to categories rather than lists of individual contributors. With 300+ contributors each reporting to a category editor it would make life much easier to not have to keep the groups continually updated.

46. September 18th, 2008 at 12:06 am
    
    Peter says:

    I've just released Version 1.1.0 to include category-specific moderators.

47. December 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
    
    AndrewJ says:

    This plugin is great – super helpful to keep notes while i'm drafting a post so that I can outline and keep track of my thoughts…

    Are you planning on adding a feature where you can delete or modify existing notes? would be helpful so that i don't add so many notes that i fill up my screen : -)

    once again, thanks for the effort for developing!

48. December 11th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Good idea regarding the ability to delete a note. I'll get that into the next version, whenever that will be

    December 28, 2008 update: version 0.2 of the post notes plugin includes the ability to edit and delete a note.

49. December 17th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
    
    michael boldin says:

    Just tested this out in 2.7 – and it’s working perfectly!

    Only one question/request – is it possible to have it send out a notice that a post is published on “scheduled” posts?

    For example, a contributor submits a post for review on 12/17. I review the post on 12/17 and schedule the post for publication on 12/19 at 8:10am. Is there a way for the plugin to notify the contributor on 12/19 at 8:10am that their post was published?

    It only sends out mail at the moment I publish the post, but no email is being sent for posts scheduled for publication in the future.

50. December 18th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
    
    Peter says:

    Hi michael, it would be possible to “hook” into that transition. Perhaps a future release?

51. February 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am
    
    Willy Galleta says:

    Hi. I've been using the plugin for some time and I translated and adapted the previous version. But when I actualized it, I lost the translation. Obvious.
    However I tried to localize it with de .po and .mo files, but when I upload the new .mo file, nothing changes.
    Am I missing something? I've tried in a new clean WP and it doesn't work either.
    I've used Poedit for generating the .mo.
    Thanks.

52. February 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am
    
    Peter says:

    Hi Willy,

    I've discovered that WordPress defaults to the en_US locale, so you need to name the .mo file "peters_collaboration_emails-en_US.mo" or replace "en_US" if you have set the locale to something else. If you’re using a WordPress version earlier than 2.6, you should put the .mo file one level up, in the “plugins” directory.

53. February 11th, 2009 at 5:44 am
    
    Daisy says:

    I have been using this plugin for some time now on a massively multi-author website and it's been a real help. I noticed, however, that contributors are only notified when their posts are published and not when they are scheduled to publish. I think it would be great to have them be notified that a post was scheduled, the date it was scheduled for, and then another notification when the post actually posts.

    I modified my installation to notify when status changes from pending to future but it would be great if the function were extended to cover all the possible post status transition possibilities.

54. February 14th, 2009 at 9:37 am
    
    Peter says:

    Hi Daisy,

    Did you simply add another condition such as this?

    if ($pce_newstatus == 'future' && $pce_oldstatus == 'pending') {
    // code
    }

    If so, did you try something like this for the scheduled publication notification?

    if ($pce_newstatus == 'publish' && $pce_oldstatus == 'future') {
    // code
    }

    The "future" to "publish" transition is the one transition that isn't done by a user in the back-end interface, so you’ll have to remove the is_admin test that encapsulates most of the plugin.

55. February 15th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
    
    Daisy says:

    Thanks Peter,

    I pretty much just replaced the check for the pending to published transition to be pending to future instead. That more or less handles my immediate need for contributors to know that their post was accepted for publication. Sometime when I have time I might just tweak it a bit more to include the scheduled date/time that the post is scheduled to go live, that would serve just about as well as a second email to notify that the post went from future to publish.

    It would be nice to see the other options incorporated, though. I can see how having to remove the is_admin check might not be the greatest thing.

56. February 15th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
    
    Peter says:

    The is_admin checks whether you are in the administration interface, so in this case it's only for efficiency of code — for example, the management interface code doesn't need to be available on the front-end. If you (or I, if I get to it) implement the "future-to-publish" transition, it will be necessary — but not harmful — to expose the main plugin function to the front-end as well.

    Update: the discussed functionality has now been added to version 1.3.0.

57. February 17th, 2009 at 8:52 am
    
    Daisy says:

    Just saw the new version is out. Thanks so much!

58. June 17th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
    
    Hector Parra says:

    Peter, since the last Wordpress 2.8 it seems like one gets emails even when editing as admin/editor other people's posts before publishing. Would it be easy to make it work as before so we don't get emailed about our own changes? Thanks and congratulations for this useful plugin! Hector

    Reply from Peter: Thanks for pointing that out. I have now released version 1.3.1, which does not send that “pending-to-pending” e-mail. I’m not sure why WordPress 2.8 internally considers that to be a so-called post transition, but we’ll work around that

59. June 29th, 2009 at 3:33 am
    
    Bob Murray says:

    Hey Peter – thanks so much for this – it works right out of the box. I had been using Dagon Design's Draft Notification – and getting emails every time a contributor just opened the post page. Now, I just get bonafide posts notifications and the contributor gets alerted when I approve too. Thanks again!

60. July 20th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
    
    Matt says:

    We're having a problem where the notifications only work if just a single email address is entered. If there is more than one selected then no one gets the notifications. Is this expected behavior and if not is there some kind of workaround?

    Reply from Peter: if there is only one moderator per entry (you don’t enter something like “address1@gmail.com, address2@gmail.com” in one entry), and multiple moderators are checked, the plugin should work. If that’s not the problem, are you using another plugin that might change the way WordPress sends e-mails?

61. September 4th, 2009 at 6:14 am
    
    Ellen says:

    This is a terrific plugin, but I have a unique problem I'm wondering if you can shed any light on, Peter:

    I'm using a separate plugin that enables custom post statuses (additional ones other than "Draft" or "Pending Review.") Unfortunately, when a post is approved and published while it's got one of these custom statuses (an example: "Ready to Publish"), the e-mail does not get triggered to send to the contributor. It appears that a post is only triggered to get sent to the contributor if it changes from "Pending Review" to "Published." (If it changes from "Ready to Publish" to "Published" then nothing happens.)

    I'm hoping this isn't a limitation of the Wordpress core functions, and maybe there is something that can be altered in your plugin to accommodate these custom post statuses. Unfortunately the custom statuses are very important to our approval workflow and we can't drop them.

    Reply from Peter: It depends on whether that plugin’s custom post statuses integrate with the same way WordPress handles its statuses. I have not looked into the pluggability of WordPress’s post statuses; however, my plugin hooks into the core WordPress filter transition_post_status() and then checks the new status and old status values. If your custom statuses are available in that filter, you can also trigger e-mails by following the same model as in my plugin’s code.

62. September 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
    
    Aren Cambre says:

    I installed this module and added three admins, including myself, to the "Default moderators" area. None of the Group or Category areas have any users.

    From the description of "Default moderators" ("These users will be e-mailed if none of the rules below match."), it appears that all three of these people should get all notifications, including but not limited to new users and comments awaiting moderation.

    I know there's no problem with my email address because I do get notifications if it's in the "Settings > General > E-mail address" field.

    I intended to use this module solely to have notifications sent to more than one person. Did I misinterpret its purpose?

63. September 20th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
    
    Aren Cambre says:

    I just realized I didn't state the problem in the prior comment: None of the three "Default moderators" get any notifications. Only the email in "Settings > General > E-mail address" gets notifications.

    Reply from Peter: Are you using any e-mail-related plugins? I did experience an issue once where WordPress did not support multiple recipients via SMTP. I wrote a post describing a fix.

64. September 28th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
    
    Aren Cambre says:

    Here's what I have installed:

    * Add to Any: Share/Bookmark/Email Button
    * Akismet
    * All in One SEO Pack
    * Google Analytics for WordPress
    * Peter's Collaboration E-mails
    * Viper's Video Quicktags
    * WP-reCAPTCHA

    I don't think these should interfere?

    I just did a fresh test of the plugin under two WP 2.8.4 environments — where PHP uses sendmail and where PHP directly uses SMTP. Unfortunately (for you) I was able to set up multiple moderators and successfully received multiple collaboration notifications. While I did not install your plugins, it is not obvious that they would cause any problems. My only other suggestions at this point are obvious ones: spam filters, syntax errors, version problems, etc.

65. September 30th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
    
    Aren Cambre says:

    What I don't get is why does the normal admin notification work but this doesn't?

    In case it matters, the customer's blog is hosted at godaddy–which blows, but that's a different story.

66. October 12th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
    
    Aren Cambre says:

    I disabled _all_ modules except Peter's Collaboration E-mails. I then created a special account with only Subscriber privileges, logged in to the blog using that special account, and left a comment on a blog post.

    My personal email is one of the "Default moderators", and I still did not receive an email. Yes, I did check my spam folder.

    Reply from Peter: Now that you say “left a comment” perhaps there is actually a misinterpretation of what the plugin does (and by re-reading your initial comment, I’m pretty sure I completely missed what you were asking). It e-mails so-called approvers when contributors submit new posts, not comments. You could definitely write a plugin to handle e-mailing around comments by hooking into the appropriate action. Feel free to continue this discussion via e-mail (my e-mail address is on the right sidebar).

67. October 13th, 2009 at 8:05 am
    
    Aren Cambre says:

    Aww, shucks. I was hoping this module included comments, but I understand the limitation as comments are a lower order of content. Well, thanks anyway.

68. November 23rd, 2009 at 5:15 pm
    
    jc says:

    I am getting my site ready, and have installed Collaboration Emails 1.3.3.

    I noticed this error message (see below) which is visible only when a user with collaborator status logs in. I am using WP 2.8.6, so I understand there may be issues….

    This notice appears on the Dashboard page, somewhat down the page in a box called "Collaboration notes"

    —————

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY notetime DESC LIMIT 5' at line 1]
    SELECT postid, author, notetime, notecontent FROM wp_collabnotes WHERE postid IN () ORDER BY notetime DESC LIMIT 5

    No relevant notes.

    ———–

    What do I need to do to resolve this issue, as I would really like to use your plugin at my new site to be…

    Update from Peter: This was actually an issue with the Post Notes plugin and fixed in the latest release of that plugin.

69. November 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
    
    Ali Erkurt says:

    Hello everyone! I've just translated the plugin to Turkish and it's ready to be downloaded. Peter, could you please add the .mo file to the plugin please? Here's the download link:

    http://www.allaboutali.com/dosyalar/peters_collaboration_emails-tr_TR.mo

    Thank you for that great plugin

    Reply from Peter: Thanks! Is there also an accompanying .po file? I always include both .mo and .po in the releases so that users can edit the translations if needed.

70. December 16th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
    
    jc says:

    Peter,

    I love your collaboration and notes plugins and use them in a 2.8.6 php 5.1+ platform, they work flawlessly…but I would like my editor to be able to get emails for submissions even from those who have statuses higher than contributor, and yes I use the capabilities plugin.

    How can I do that? presently the collaboration settings only allows the selection of those who have collaborator status, and alas, the higher ups need editing supervision too.

    Reply from Peter: Presumably this means that you have some extra roles that don’t have “publish posts” capabilities? Using the default WordPress capabilities, an editor that does not have the permissions to publish his/her own posts cannot also publish other editors’ posts. Under that assumption, if you want to add other user roles to the contributor list in my plugin, you can edit the “switch” statement in the pce_usersoptions function and modify the $pce_contrib_approve_code “contributor” code to add other roles in a similar way to the “moderators” code directly below it.

71. January 6th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
    
    Erika Jurney says:

    I LOVE this plugin and have been using it for a while now. I've recently come up against a new situation and I'm wondering if the plugin could potentially handle it.

    I'm running a series of articles where I would really love to be able to put an email address in a custom field and have *that* address treated as if it were the post author's address.

    So when the post is scheduled and posted that address would get the mail.

    Does this make sense? Does it seem reasonable?

    Thanks very much,
    Erika

    Reply from Peter: This is certainly possible. If you look at this piece of code, you can replace $pce_thisuser->user_email with the contents of the custom field:

    // Send the notification e-mail for a previously-scheduled, now published post
    wp_mail($pce_thisuser->user_email, $pce_subject, $pce_body, $pce_headers);

    This custom field is probably accessed with something like get_post_meta( $pce_object->ID, 'name_of_field', true ); See the WordPress documentation on get_post_meta.

72. January 27th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
    
    ashley says:

    Hi there

    I'm considering a project for which this plugin might be useful, but it would be an absolute perfect fit if the Contributor could also be notified when their post was deleted. The situation would be that many people could contribute posts, but only one would be published per day, with the rest being deleted to save room in my DB (the posts would include media files). I'd love to let the unpublished Contributors know that their post is no longer in the running.

    I hope it's a feature you'd consider adding!

    Reply from Peter: There is a WordPress action “delete_post” that you can hook into and use the passed post ID to do things such as send e-mails. Or, using the post notes plugin, save a note saying “Thanks, this post will be deleted”, then delete the post.

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