• Resolved lotsamottsa

    (@lotsamottsa)


    Is there a way to manage email notifications on custom post types for user roles? I have three user roles: general, managers and admins (I’m using user role editor plugin).

    I am able to auto email all users any time a general post is created as well as my custom post types ‘jobs’.

    What I’d like to do is remove general users from all ‘jobs’ activity:

    1. Remove general users from receiving an email any time my custom post type ‘jobs’ is created.

    2. Email managers and admins every time a comment is made in a job post type.

    I am using the following code to add the custom post type, but not seeing it appear in the subscription areas as a checkbox.

    //email jobs to specific users
    function my_post_types($types) {
        $types[] = 'jobs';
        return $types;
    }
    add_filter('s2_post_types', 'my_post_types');

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/

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  • @lotsamottsa,

    There are four filters in Subscribe2 that you’d need to use to achieve (1). The filters are called:
    s2_send_plain_excerpt_suscribers
    s2_send_plain_fullcontent_suscribers
    s2_send_html_excerpt_suscribers
    s2_send_html_fullcontent_suscribers

    Each of these filters passes 2 arguments. The first is an array of recipient email addresses and the second if the post ID number. You would need to write a filter function that checked the post id to see if it’s in your ‘jobs’ type and then remove any general users from the array of recipients. I would probably do this unsung the array_intersect() function in PHP passing the Subscribe2 list along with a list of managers and admins as additional arguments.

    (2) is not possible in Subscribe2 as it works for posts only, not comments. You need to look for a comment notification plugin for that, perhaps Subscribe to Comments Reloaded.

    Thread Starter lotsamottsa

    (@lotsamottsa)

    Thanks Mattyrob,
    Sorry, but my php skills are not very advanced, so I’m not familiar with some of the terminology you are using, but I did a little bit of research to try and figure this out… is this close to the template I would use to accomplish this?

    function remove_jobs_email($args){
     $args = array(
              // customer post type is jobs
              //user is general
    );
    }
    add_filter(s2_send_plain_excerpt_suscribers, remove_jobs_email);
    add_filter(s2_send_plain_fullcontent_suscribers, remove_jobs_email);
    add_filter(s2_send_html_excerpt_suscribers, remove_jobs_email);
    add_filter(s2_send_html_fullcontent_suscribers, remove_jobs_email);

    @lotsamottsa,

    It’s a good start but your function can take 2 variables, the first is an array of subscribers and the second is the post ID. You might find the example on the API page useful:
    http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/support/api/

    Thread Starter lotsamottsa

    (@lotsamottsa)

    Ok, so that definitely helped, but I’m getting some error messages when publishing the post, so I’m not sure what I have wrong here: My “general” user role is the role I am trying to remove from receiving emails when a the post type job is published. This role only has the ability to “read” and read private pages, so I am guessing that is level 0?

    The error seems to be happening with the second part of my function: The errors messages are:
    1. in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string
    2. array_intersect() [function.array-intersect]: Argument #2 is not an array

    function s2member_filter($subscribers, $post_id) {
        // $subscribers is an array of subscriber email addresses
        $args = array(
            'role' => 's2member_level0',
            'fields' => array('user_email')
        );
        $s2_level1 = get_users($args);
    
        foreach ($s2_level1 as $user) {
            $s2members[] = $user->user_email;
        }
    
        // we can do thins with the $postid also
        // like amend the subscribers list of the post id is in a specific category
    	$posttype = get_post_type( $post_id );
    	if ( in_array('jobs', $posttype) ) {
            //DOES ANYTHING NEED TO GO IN HERE?
        }
    
        $filtered_subscribers = array_intersect($subscribers, $s2members);
    } // end s2member_filter()
    
    add_filter('s2_send_plain_excerpt_suscribers', 's2member_filter', 10, 2);
    add_filter('s2_send_plain_fullcontent_suscribers', 's2member_filter', 10, 2);
    add_filter('s2_send_html_excerpt_suscribers', 's2member_filter', 10, 2);
    add_filter('s2_send_html_fullcontent_suscribers', 's2member_filter', 10, 2);

    @lotsamottsa,

    This role only has the ability to “read” and read private pages, so I am guessing that is level 0?

    You can’t guess, you need to delve into the database or look in your role management plugin and find a way to collect those users. I suspect your errors are arising as you are not getting any user data from the WordPress tables.

    Thread Starter lotsamottsa

    (@lotsamottsa)

    Thanks Mattyrob. I ended up getting this to work without using the plugin. You’ve definitely helped me understand some things though, and steered me in the right direction. Thank you for your time.

    @lotsamottsa,

    You are welcome – I’m glad you got things working.

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