Notify admin when page is edited?

Question

I found this previous post to automatically notify the admin when a post or page is published: Alert Email when any Post or Page is Changed

Works like a charm, thanks! However, it looks like the page has to be changed from draft or pending to published to trigger the action. Is there a modification to notify the admin when an already published page is updated?

thanks!

Answer 1

You're right .. many of the notification plugins require a change of state and don't actually track if there is a new 'revision' to a post or page.

Recently WPMU did a long story on plugins that will track activity and you might find it helpful as it identifies a few plugins ...

http://wpmu.org/wordpress-activity-log/

Answer 2

You can register TheDeadMedic's function to fire on the save_post action, which runs every time a post is saved, regardless of whether or not the status changed.

add_action( 'save_post', '__notify_admin_on_publish', 10, 3 );

Then, comment out these lines in his function:

//if ( $new_status != 'publish' || $old_status == 'publish' )
        //return;

To prevent getting an e-mail for autosaves, add this code to the top of the function:

global $post;
if( ( defined( 'DOING_AUTOSAVE' ) && DOING_AUTOSAVE ) || $post->post_status == 'auto-draft' )
    return;