Did you take a look at the section on extending Edit Flow? There’s a section on auto-subscribing usergroups to follow a post when the post is saved as a certain status.
In that example, when the post is saved with a status of “draft”, it will subscribe the usergroups to which the author of the post belongs to receive notifications.
An example for it’s usage in a plugin can be found here: https://gist.github.com/cojennin/fa17eaca6e290f1086cc12ef9da138d3 (when any post is saved with a status of “pending”, this plugin will subscribe the default “Copy Editors” usergroup that comes with Edit Flow to receive notifications)
and another example here: https://gist.github.com/cojennin/45ac4c91d6319f8f51060a5320d28f86 (when any post is saved with a status of “pending”, this plugin will subscribe every user with the WordPress role “editor” to receive notifications for that post).
Do either of these plugins satisfy your requirements for receiving a reminder about posts your authors are working on?
Hi
Thanks for your reply and your suggestions. I wasn’t really looking for auto-subscribing, even though they are interesting I would rather auto-subscribe individuals based on author selection rather then all authors.
I am really looking for a reminder notification to the author that they need to write a blog post a certain amount of time before the publish date.
The way we work is we ask our writers to upload a draft post to edit flow 2 weeks before it is due to be published, however this doesn’t always happen and I have to manually chase them. I was looking for something to automate this.
Thanks.
Heh, sounds like the same gripe of every editor I’ve ever met.
Have you tried https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-reminder/? Have not used it myself so can’t vouch for it, but looks like it might get you somewhat of the way there.
