publish_post action doesn't work

Question

i'm developing a small plugin which will send email to users when a new magazine is published.

i made a post type name "magazine" on the theme functions.php. and i wrote a plugin for email subscriptions.

code:

function newsletter_sendEmails($post_id)
{
    $post = get_post($post_id);

    if ($post->post_type == 'magazine')
    {
        mail( "[email protected]", "מגזין חדש", "התפרסם מגזין חדש!" );
    }
}

add_action('publish_post', 'newsletter_sendEmails');

but from some reason i don't get the email when i publish a new magazine, why is that?

Answer 1

It's never fired since the hook you need is not publish_post but publish_magazine which is actually {$new_status}_{$post_type} hook. So try publish_magazine

update: also you don't need to use get_post since you the hook passes the $post object to the function as a second parameter. take a look at wp_transition_post_status()

and if that's not working then you have something else going wrong.