Hi Bob,
Much as we’d love to help further customizations are largely beyond the scope of free support provided here in our wordpress.org forum.
The Events Calendar is certainly full of action and filter hooks, though, so I don’t think there will be a problem on that count – but actually “wiring it up” so it connects with Jetpack Subscriptions is something we’ll need to leave in your hands.
Who knows, it is always possible a fellow Jetpack-minded user will happen up on this and be able to offer more in-depth advice 🙂
Hey Bob,
Did you find a solution for this? I put together a site for my son’s PTO, and I need the events to get emailed out as well.
Hoping you’ve found a solution!
Calley
Calley,
I was able to get it to send blog posts to a subscriber list, but not Events. I spent a while staring at it, and have figured out a whole bunch of backend stuff about WordPress, but haven’t cracked this particular problem yet. I was able to get the blog posts not only to send an email, but also to post on Facebook.
I’ve since moved away from the Jetpack subscriber model in favor of a more robust and useful mail list management system. My site is now collecting subscribers and adding them to a Mailchimp list. I’m then sending out a Mailchimp message (which they call a “campaign.”) There is a way to get that to post on Facebook, but I haven’t succeeded in that. The big advantage of Mailchimp is that I can add subscribers myself, including listservs. Since the mail gets sent as if it was me, the listservs are fine with it.
Ideally, I would create an Event in the calendar and when it gets published it adds an event on Facebook and sends out an email to the list. I haven’t found a path to that yet, only a blog post. And so far I haven’t found a path to doing that with an event.
So I guess the short answer is No.
Howdy guys,
Like Barry said we can not afford to provide much volunteer support for customizations like this. But, hopefully this helps get y’all in the right direction: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/save_post
Our plugin hook into the save_post action for numerous things that needed to happen upon saving an event. If you need something to happen then as well, that’d be the hook. From there you can check the post_id and content to see if it’s an event that needs an email.
Cheers!
– Brook
Thanks, Brook. This is exactly what I needed.
Glad to know that helped you to your solution!
