Send confirmation email when a user's role is upgraded

Question

I've been searching around for a solution but am coming up dry. I need to have a confirmation email sent to users when their role is upgraded. By default users are signed up as contributors and make them apply to be upgraded to an author and I want an automated email sent to the user as soon as they are upgraded. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Send email notification when user role changes - Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your WordPress theme will send the member an email notification when the user’s role has changed.

function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
        $site_url = get_bloginfo('wpurl');
        $user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );
        $to = $user_info->user_email;
        $subject = "Role changed: ".$site_url."";
        $message = "Hello " .$user_info->display_name . " your role has changed on ".$site_url.", congratulations you are now an " . $new_role;
        wp_mail($to, $subject, $message);
}
add_action( 'set_user_role', 'user_role_update', 10, 2);