Alert Email when any Post or Page is Changed

Question

Is there a way to have Wordpress email me whenever a Page or Post is Published?

Answer 1

There's a few plugins that handle email notifications, but they all seem to act like a subscription service for (all) WordPress users.

To notify just you when a post or page is published, it's literally a few lines of code.

function __notify_admin_on_publish( $new_status, $old_status, $post )
{
    if ( $new_status != 'publish' || $old_status == 'publish' )
        return;

    $message = 'View it: ' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) . "\nEdit it: " . get_edit_post_link( $post->ID );
    if ( $post_type = get_post_type_object( $post->post_type ) )    
        wp_mail( get_option( 'admin_email' ), 'New ' . $post_type->labels->singular_name, $message );
}
add_action( 'transition_post_status', '__notify_admin_on_publish', 10, 3 );

You can either drop this in your theme's functions.php, or save it as a plugin (which might be more appropriate, as it's not exactly 'theme' related).

Answer 2

Sure, you will need to use appropriate Post Status Transition hook or hooks and wp_mail().

Answer 3

sha -- it answers the question by contributing the knowledge that the posted solution does not work in all instances.

After 24 hours, I can update the knowledge I contributed. The solution at this location ( Notify admin when page is edited? ) works on the server where the solution posted above does not. To quote from the thread with the solution that works better in the two contexts I tried:

The original script from the wpcodex works fine:

 add_action( 'save_post', 'my_project_updated_send_email' ); 
 function my_project_updated_send_email( $post_id ) { 
    //verify post is not a revision 
    if ( !wp_is_post_revision( $post_id ) ) { 
         $post_title = get_the_title( $post_id ); 
         $post_url = get_permalink( $post_id ); 
         $subject = 'A post has been updated'; 
         $message = "A post has been updated on your website:\n\n";
         $message .= "<a href='". $post_url. "'>" .$post_title. "</a>\n\n"; 
         //send email to admin 
         wp_mail( get_option( 'admin_email' ), $subject, $message ); 
   } 
}