cojennin

Do you have access to the PHP error logs for your test site? Would be helpful in diagnosing the issue.

If you create a new post with the status of “Draft”, does the “Post Status” column show up?

Here’s an example of a plugin that extends Edit Flow to exclude the user with the ID “2” from the Calendar and Story Budget. Do you know the user ID of the user you want to exclude? You could replace the “2” with the user ID of that user and it should exclude them from the Calendar and Story Budget.

There’s some possibility in this idea. It might be nice to easily exclude/include certain user’s or user groups from the calendar or story budget as a user preference (similar to a screen option). Will think more on it.

Let me know if you need more help!

You should be able to create a plugin that adds a filter on ef_calendar_posts_query_args.

I created a new usergroup and added two users (not admins).

What are the roles of the two users you added to the usergroup?

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?

Ooph. Caught red-handed.

It’s something that definitely needs work. There’s a section on the website with code snippets for extending Edit Flow, but standard documentation is lacking.

If you ever have a few minutes and wish to pay this one forward, would be great to have a PR to kick off the documentation process. Maybe just documenting one of the functions in that gist get_usergroup_by or get_following_usergroups.

Bare bones, I’d imagine in Github the documentation structure might look like:

- common
- language
- modules
- tests
- docs
  - edit_flow.md (documenting functions, their arguments, return values and use cases)
  - modules
    - notifications.md (documenting functions, their arguments, return values and use cases)
    - user-groups.md (documenting functions, their arguments, return values and use cases)

But open to suggestions.

If you want to notify a certain usergroup when an attachment is added to a post, you could try something like https://gist.github.com/cojennin/31c877280c803d7cc747edd36ca3a7ef.

This would (fingers crossed, haven’t tested it) notify all my copy editors that an attachment has been added to a post (the attachment is not necessarily an image!).

Would something like that suffice? How do you see a notification on an image being uploaded to a post fitting into your current workflow?