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 I'd love to let the unpublished Contributors know that their post is no longer in the running.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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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"

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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.

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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.

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).

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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.

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.