Adding second Email address for WP user notifications

Question

The WP systems sends a lot of mails to authors. There also plugins who use email notifications for authors.

But, let say I have a user, who is managed by two persons (because it's a company, an entity that is more then one person) - I want all the emails to be sent also to a second Email address, that I will enter in the profile page of that WP user.

What is the best way to achieve this? I know how to add a field to the profile page, but I don't know how to send every notification that the user gets to the second email address. please help :)

Answer 1

Not a WP specific solution, but you can usually set-up an alias/forwarder in your email system that sends a copy to both people.

e.g.

timandjoe@domain.com

sales@domain.com

etc.

Answer 2

A suggestion, albeit a sorta hack, I'd like to make is to use a mailing list. You can add an infinite number of emails to a mailing list.

An alternative you could do is to use the publish_{$posttype} hook to send email notificiations through wp_mail. The wp_mail function's $to parameter takes either a string or an array so you could pass in multiple email addresses.

EDIT:

function notify_users_of_new_post($post_id) {
    // Get list of subscribers and their secondary email address stored in wp_usermeta
    $user_query = get_users('blog_id=1&orderby=nicename&role=subscriber&fields=all_with_meta');

    $bName = get_bloginfo('name');
    $permalink = get_permalink($post_id);
    foreach($user_query as $user) {
        $email = $user->email;

        if (isset($user->secondary_email) AND !empty($user->secondary_email)) {
            $email = array( $user->email, $user->secondary_email );
        }

        wp_mail($email, sprintf('New Blog Entry on %s', $bName), sprintf('A new entry has been published to %s. View it clicking here: %s', $bName, $permalink));
    }
}
add_action('publish_post', 'notify_users_of_new_post');

I attempted a sample code block (above). A suggestion if you plan on using this on a production site, use a cron job if you have a lot of registered users, otherwise I'm pretty sure this will cause a timeout in PHP.