Subscribe specific roles to specific category

  • cashman180

    (@cashman180)


    11 years ago

    Hi, I am sure someone else has wanted to do this but I have not been able to find a solution.

    I have a few user roles, let’s say Administrator, Contributor, Author and Subscriber.
    What I want to do with Subscribe2 is have it so when a new article is posted to the Category ‘Internal’ that a notification is sent to all users in both Administrator and Author roles and when a post is made to the category ‘External’ notification is sent to all Authors and Contributors.

    Any guidance would be SOOO appreciated! Thanks in advance for your time 🙂

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/

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  • Matt Robinson

    (@mattyrob)

    11 years ago

    @cashman180

    This is possible using the API of the Subscribe2 plugin. You would need to use the following 4 hooks:

    s2_send_plain_excerpt_subscribers
    s2_send_plain_fullcontent_subscribers
    s2_send_html_excerpt_subscribers
    s2_send_html_fullcontent_subscribers

    As documented here:
    https://subscribe2.wordpress.com/support/api/

    The example code there shows hoe to collect users by role and you can then filter based on the category and only send to some of your users.

    middlemountain

    (@middlemountain)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Just to confirm… Using the API, could we give public subscribers the ability to subscribe to receive notifications when a post is made to a specific category?

    Matt Robinson

    (@mattyrob)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    @middlemountain

    If you mean can you use the API to allow individual subscribers to select what categories they get emails for – no.

    If you mean can you limit what emails are sent bad on category – you can do this already in the plugin settings using Excluded categories.

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