@physalis
Are these ‘pending’ posts actually created in the database with a status of ‘pending’? Are they visible on the site while pending?
@mattyrob Yes, indeed, they are saved in that way, and no, they are not visible to non-admins at least :).
@physalis
Okay, forgive my ignorance then – but why do you want to send emails for posts that most users are unable to see?
@mattyrob It’s quite simple. It is a corporate site where users have a page where they can ask questions. Since there are different areas of expertise, different moderators need to be notified once a question is being posted in their area of expertise, i.e. category of the custom post type ;). Until someone reviews and answers/comments the question, it should stay invisible.
@physalis
Okay, I think I understand the set up better now.
I’ve also just noticed a bug or two in you code above. Firstly you are hooking to the wrong filter (it should be s2_post_statuses) and you are adding the ‘pending’ status to an array called $types but returning $statuses unchanged, your code needs to be:
function my_post_statuses($statuses) {
$statuses[] = 'pending';
return $statuses;
}
add_filter('s2_post_statuses', 'my_post_statuses');
@mattyrob Oh, I took that from your site 1:1 (except for the pending status), so that is where the mistake came from :). Still it’s not registering frontend posts from the Q&A plugin, bummer :(.
@physalis
Thanks for pointing that out – the API documentation is now fixed.
Are you using a plugin for ‘frontend’ editing? I suspect it’s a conflict there. Does it work when creating pending posts from the backend?
@mattyrob
Yes, more or less, it is the plugin itself (DW Question & Answer, via https://wordpress.org/plugins/dw-question-answer/) that lets users create questions on the frontend and saves them as pending posts of a custom post type of theirs. I checked the database plus the backend: They are saved as pending posts, and once I let them save as published posts notifications work, though everybody subscribed to any custom taxonomy term of that post type (the ‘categories’ that are non-hierarchical as reported) is getting notifications on every question being asked, even in the wrong category/term.
@physalis
I’ve looked briefly at that plugin, it registers 2 custome post types:
‘dwqa-question’ and ‘dwqa-answer’
It also registers 2 custom taxonomies, one like categories and one like tag (i.e one hierarchical the other not)
‘dwqa-question_category’ and ‘dwqa-question_tag’
Perhaps you need to use these to link into Subscribe2 to get things working.
@mattyrob
This is what I registered, and it should be just fine, though it isn’t:
// Subscribe2 - add post type and taxonomy plus post status
function my_post_types($types) {
$types[] = 'dwqa-question';
return $types;
}
add_filter('s2_post_types', 'my_post_types');
function my_taxonomy_types($taxonomies) {
$taxonomies[] = 'dwqa-question_category';
return $taxonomies;
}
add_filter('s2_taxonomies', 'my_taxonomy_types');
function my_post_statuses($statuses) {
$statuses[] = 'pending';
return $statuses;
}
add_filter('s2_post_statuses', 'my_post_statuses');
However, the one you thought to be hierarchical isn’t hierarchical, unfortunately. The category behaves just like tags, I detected that from the backend URL
The categories show up in the backend, I can tick them for specific users, but they only trigger notifications a) when I don’t let questions be moderated, meaning when I don’t let them be saved as pending, and b) universally to anyone who is subscribed to ANY category of that CPT.
@physalis
On digging further into the code, DW Question & Answer treats each new entry as a ‘page’ not a ‘post’.
Subscribe2 does not expect pages to behave in this way as core WordPress pages don’t allow assignment of a category.
Sadly, I suspect the two plugins are not 100% compatible.
Hi @mattyrob,
that is something I wouldn’t have come up with on my own. It sounds really weird that the author uses a ‘page’ format – are there any advantages towards that?
Too bad to hear there is no solution to my problem and your plugin cannot help me out on this matter – but thanks so much for your continuing support!
@physalis
It is weird and there are no advantages I can think of – maybe that’s a question to ask the author of DW Question & Answer.
One solution is to hack the code yourself and change the post-type to post rather than page – if you feel comfortable hacking code that is.
But, you’d need to make sure to avoid updating the plugin or to re-apply the hack each time.
The changes would need to be made in the dw-question-answer.php (and perhaps other places – I haven’t looked.
@mattyrob Oh well, that sounds like some real dirty and unproductive way of handling it. Actually something like a hook would be fine, but I doubt it’s possible with something so basic for the plugin. Really strange, and I fear they won’t change it due to the fact that they need to handle current users of the plugin. BUMMER!
