Post Status Notifier

Description

Notify every WordPress post change You want to be notified when one of your contributors submitted a new post for revision or an editor published one Vice versa you want to notify your contributors when their posts got published This is just the beginning of what you can achieve with Post Status Notifier PSN It works with all kind of custom post types supports all custom taxonomies like categories and tags of other plugins You can grab all these taxonomy values and custom fields attached to a post and use them as placeholders in your custom notification texts PSN has a powerful conditional template syntax featuring many filters and functions to get the most out of the placeholders Define as many notification rules as you need with all kind of settings like custom CC BCC and FROM emails addresses or multiple attachments PSN is extensible Build your custom module to implement a new notification service PSN works great with plugins like WP Job Manager read the blog post Calendarize it read the blog post Crowdfunding by Astoundify read the blog post WP User Frontend read the blog post or Advanced Custom Fields just to name a few The possibilities are endless Want to automate your publishing workflow with Buffer No problem And if you are looking for a solution to create custom email notifications for user submitted posts PSN works great together with Frontend Publishing Pro also available on CodeCanyon Features Support for email attachments Learn more New status Not scheduled New rule condition Post ID whitelist blacklist see documentation page New rule condition Exclude recipients by user ID or email address Custom rule match condition based on template syntax see Dynamic match condition Content Diffs see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier content_diffs html Rule trigger limitations see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier limitations html Dynamic recipients see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier dynamic_recipients html Late execution see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier options html late-execution Mandrill support see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier options html advanced Redesigned options page for better overview New in version 1 7 Mail Queue Handle large amounts of generated notification emails by sending them deferred Customize max amount mail queue execution recurrence and max tries on errors Optionally log successfully sent emails in the mail queue log Uses WordPress s internal Cron API to trigger mail queue execution Define custom notification rules Categories filter Include or exclude categories even from custom post types from notifications Create custom email texts with support for many placeholders Supports user roles custom roles too as email recipients Import export of your notification rules Custom sender e-mail Define the notification sender FROM per rule or as a default in the options Support for HTML mails Create email templates for reusability Support for posts pages and all custom post types Support for all post status values You can choose from a variety of placeholders to perfectly adapt the email texts to your needs Dynamic placeholders You will be able to fetch every custom field or taxonomy attached to your posts Placeholder filters Completely adjust the content of placeholders to your needs supports the filters of the famous PHP template engine Twig Use PSN s powerful conditional template syntax to dynamically create your notification texts Many filters to change the placeholder contents Conditions if elseif else and Loops Use special functions to access any kind of data e g wp get_userdata post_author Store your recipients email addresses in custom lists No need to create WordPress user accounts for each recipient Supports SMTP You find all necessary SMTP settings to connect your SMTP server in the options section WordPress multisite compatible Optional logging Logs status changes based on your rules Dashboard widget showing the latest log entries Comprehensive documentation Included translations english german Support in english and german via Zendesk ifeelwebde zendesk com Tested on Windows Mac OS and Linux Built on our ifeelweb de WordPress Plugin Framework PSN is ready to be extended by custom modules see the manual Implement support for your own notification messaging service Add custom placeholders to perfectly adjust PSN to your plugin or theme Endless possibilities Please contact me if you have questions about extending PSN What customers say Great plugin look through maybe 7 plugins until found this one and it is the best – misolek just got the pro version and it s working great awesome plugin man and thanks for your excellent support – nomadone This plugin is very intuitive and works great Very helpful support Top notch – Rick Thank you for your great support the plugin works great now and has accomplished what 5 other commercial and free plugins couldn t to provide simple and configurable email notifications for WP status changes – Jon Use cases Here are some simple examples of how you can use Post Status Notifier You can easily adapt the notification rules to your own use case You host a blog website with several authors and you want to be informed when a new post is ready for review This rule sends a notification email to the blog admin when a new post got submitted for review This rule sends an email to the author of a post when it got published This rule is for blog admins who want to be informed about every single post status change If you are using Buffer for automatically sharing your WordPress posts with your social profiles PSN can do the job for you See how it works in this blog post Requirements WordPress 3 3 PHP 7 4 Changelog Version 1 11 6 2024 08 14 Fixed Link to rule edit page on dashboard rule list Fixed PHP code improvements to avoid incompatibilities with future versions Version 1 11 5 Release 2024 06 24 Fixed A problem that occurred when activating the Premium version when the Lite version was still activated Version 1 11 4 Release 2024 0514 Fixed Issue with last update mail queue list table error Version 1 11 3 Release 2024 04 04 Fixed Admin list table search did only search in item title 208 Fixed Admin list table search field disappeared on empty result Version 1 11 2 Release 2024 02 10 Fixed PHP 8 2 issues Version 1 11 1 Release 2023 10 21 Fixed The exclude filter did not work as expected 191 Fixed An unhandled exception which could occur during certain WordPress events and not in general 194 Version 1 11 0 Release 2023 06 26 Added Support for e-mail attachments see online documentation Changed Completely redesigned options section Fixed Items per page option did not work in list table screen options Fixed Translation issues Version 1 10 2 Release 2023 05 11 Fixed PHP 8 compatibility Fixed Minor Cross-Site Scripting issue Version 1 10 1 Release 2022 12 10 Fixed Options page tab navigation was broken due to not loaded CSS file Fixed Minor Cross-Site Scripting issue Version 1 10 0 Release 2022 08 15 Added Option to define how to handle shortcodes in mail templates see Options Mail Templates Version 1 9 10 Release 2022 04 15 Fixed PHP 8 0 8 1 compatibility Version 1 9 9 Release 2021 06 15 Added Advanced option Postponed execution which might help if rules don t work as expected when creating posts via frontend Added Option Identical emails threshold which defines a time period in seconds within which PSN will attempt to block multiple identical emails Fixed Translation issues Fixed PHP 8 improvements Version 1 9 8 Release 2020 10 03 Fixed PHPMailer issue Accidentally skipped version 1 9 7 Version 1 9 6 Release 2020 08 10 Added Reply-To support for email notifications Fixed PHP 7 4 issues Fixed Compatibility with WordPress 5 5 Fixed Translation issues Fixed Minor layout issues Version 1 9 5 Release 2019 07 06 Changed Options page layout improved Fixed Support for ACF field type with non scalar values like Select Post Object and others Fixed Removed PHP Notices Fixed Issue with submit form of plugin WP User Frontend Version 1 9 4 Release 2019 03 04 Added Button to save and stay on page for mail template form Fixed Bulk actions did not work anymore Fixed PHP 7 x improvements Fixed Some database tables were not removed when the plugin was deleted Version 1 9 3 Release 2018 10 17 Fixed Error on plugin activation Version 1 9 2 Release 14 10 2018 Fixed Some PSN database tables have been created with type MyISAM This has been removed to create default type which will be InnoDB in most cases Fixed The initialization procedure of the plugin has been improved Version 1 9 1 Release 10 01 2018 Fixed Improved error message handling PHP notices were displayed on PSN admin pages Version 1 9 0 Release 23 05 2017 Added Support for ACF custom fields improved Added New status Not scheduled Added New rule condition Post ID whitelist blacklist Added New rule condition Exclude recipients by user ID or email address Added Custom rule match condition based on template syntax Fixed Rule match handling improved Version 1 8 9 Release 05 05 2016 Fixed Compatibility fix for PHP 7 Fixed Minor fixes Version 1 8 8 Release 13 12 2015 Added New placeholders for post title and content diffs post_diff_title post_diff_content see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier content_diffs html Fixed Compatibility fix for PHP 7 Version 1 8 7 Release 28 11 2015 Added New placeholder when running inside TO loop recipient_ID Added New placeholder when running inside TO loop recipient_user_email Changed Improved SMTP debug mode to not produce output in AJAX requests Changed HTML emails editor update Fixed On some hosters it could lead to issues with PHP open_basedir setting Version 1 8 6 Release 05 11 2015 Bugfix Whitespace in a script file caused PSN admin pages to result in an error after form submits Bugfix Passing emails to Mandrill could result in errors if custom FROM was used Version 1 8 5 Release 28 10 2015 Added New rule option Exclude current user with which you can exclude the current user who saves updates the post from all recipients Changed License handling on multisite installations Go to network settings Post Status Notifier to activate the license network wide Changed License form moved to a dedicated tab section on default non multisite installations Bugfix Placeholders post_status_before and post_status_after could be empty Bugfix Custom FROM set in the option could lead to problems if format Sender Name sender domain com was used Version 1 8 4 Release 18 09 2015 New placeholders post_categories_slugs post_categories_slugs_array post_tags_slugs post_tags_slugs_array thanks to syntax53 for the proposal Tweak On multisite update the PHP maximum execution timeout will be resetted to the default 30 seconds for every site to not run into a timeout with very large networks Minor fixes Version 1 8 3 Release 26 08 2015 Security improvements Version 1 8 2 Release 23 07 2015 Bugfix Selftester could produce an error message about insufficient permissions Version 1 8 1 Release 09 07 2015 Tweak Category handling improved special characters in category names could not be matched Tweak Frontend post submission improved Category filter did not work for posts submitted via frontend Version 1 8 Release 27 04 2015 New feature Rule trigger limitations see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier limitations html New feature Dynamic recipients see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier dynamic_recipients html New feature Late execution see http docs ifeelweb de post-status-notifier options html late-execution New feature Mandrill support see Options Advanced Redesigned options page for better overview Version 1 7 Release 09 12 2014 New feature Mail Queue Deferred sending Improved logging Shows detailed email contents now including HTML mails Bugfix Placeholder post_editlink could not be replaced in case of users without edit rights changed the post status e g if the permission exceeded in the meantime but he still gets emails Bugfix Mail template HTML editor produced an JS error when opened in edit mode in Firefox Version 1 6 3 Release 21 10 2014 Bugfix Service section environment info metabox could break in certain cases Bugfix FROM was empty if no custom FROM was set Improvement Rule and mail template export could break when other plugins interfered via filters Fix Rule placeholder help screen showed post_featured_image_src which should be post_featured_image_url Version 1 6 2 Release 15 09 2014 Bugfix in custom tags handling Version 1 6 1 Release 14 09 2014 Major improvements for the support of Categories and Tags Major improvements for the support of Custom Fields Major improvements for the support of Scheduled Posts Version 1 6 Release 23 08 2014 New feature Support for conditions loops functions and filters in subject and body texts Enables to access any kind of data attached to a post Allows to create dynamic texts New feature Block notifications options in Post submit box Lets you decide to completely block notifications before you update create a post New feature One email per TO recipient Notifications can get send in a loop with one email per TO recipient disregarding CC and BCC recipients This feature is has Beta status New placeholder post_categories_array Contains an array for easy use with filters New placeholder post_tags_array Contains an array for easy use with filters New placeholder post_custom_fields_array Contains an array for easy use with filters New placeholder post_preview_25 Contains the first 25 words of the post content New placeholder post_preview_50 Contains the first 50 words of the post content New placeholder post_preview_75 Contains the first 75 words of the post content New placeholder post_preview_100 Contains the first 100 words of the post content New placeholder post_content_strip_tags The post content without HTML tags New placeholder post_featured_image_url If a post has a featured image this placeholders contains its URL New placeholder post_featured_image_width The featured image width New placeholder post_featured_image_height The featured image height New placeholder recipient_first_name Only works in One email per TO recipient mode The firstname of the recipient if it is available in the user profile New placeholder recipient_last_name Only works in One email per TO recipient mode The lastname of the recipient if it is available in the user profile New custom post status Not trash will match every status but Trash Version 1 5 2 Release 03 06 2014 Bugfix In some cases the service section produced an error message Call to undefined function apache_get_version Version 1 5 1 Release 13 05 2014 Improvement Duplicate recipients get removed Bugfix Fixed a bug in the Logger module Sent emails haven t been logged correctly Version 1 5 Release 06 05 2014 New feature HTML mail support and email templates Prepare your email templates once and select them for different notification rules New feature Auto-update via WordPress backend Never have to upload the files via FTP again You have to enter your license code in the plugin s settings New feature More flexible To Cc Bcc selection Multiple selections are possible now New feature Editor restriction Select one or more roles the editor of a post must be member of so that the notification will be generated New feature Recipients lists Manage email addresses without the need to create user accounts New custom post status Not pending Matches all post status values except pending New custom post status Not private Matches all post status values except private New placeholder post_editlink Contains the backend edit URL Removed post types attachement nav_menu_item from rule settings as they are not treated like post types have no status before after Support for placeholders in FROM Refactoring for performance improvements Version 1 4 1 Release 11 02 2014 Bugfix Missing translation class http codecanyon net item post-status-notifier 4809420 comments comment_5883580 Version 1 4 Release 05 02 2014 New custom placeholders which will specifically match custom categories and tags registered with your blog New feature Dynamic placeholders You will be able to fetch every custom field attached to your posts New feature Placeholder filters This is a very powerful feature You can use all filters of the famous PHP template engine Twig to manipulate the output of all placeholders PSN offers you including the new dynamic placeholders New feature Import Export notification rules New feature Copy notification rules New feature New recipient type Individual e-mail Enter a custom e-mail address as main recipient TO New feature Custom sender e-mail Define the notification sender per rule or as a default in the options New notification rule status Not published This will match every post status but publish New placeholder post_format Version 1 3 Release 08 01 2014 New feature Notification rules have a categories filter now New placeholder post_permalink can be used for notification texts Contains the post s permalink uses WP internal get_permalink function Bugfix Fixed a bug which occured when not logged in users changed post status in the frontend Bugfix German language fix Improvement Backend adjusted to new WordPress 3 8 layout Version 1 2 1 Release 28 09 2013 Bugfix Fixed a bug where scheduled items did not get notified when published by cron Version 1 2 Release 12 09 2013 New feature Notification rule recipient supports user roles default and custom roles and special all users Improvement The plugin now is completely multisite compatible Bugfix Single quotes in blog name will be shown correctly now Version 1 1 Release 22 08 2013 New feature Bcc field Set Bcc recipients for your notification rules New feature SMTP mode If you want to send many notifications and have a SMTP mail server PSN now supports it You find all necessary SMTP settings in the options section New feature Plugin selftester The plugin ships with some selftesting routines you can trigger manually in the plugin dashboard Minor bugfixing Now fully compatible with Windows Server 2008 PHP 5 2 Version 1 0 3 Release 07 06 2013 Further improvements Removed dependency to PDO at all Version 1 0 2 Release 03 06 2013 Bugfix Recipient Post author did not work for notification rules Bugfix Plugin activation could produce error with PHP 5 2 Parse error syntax error unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM Version 1 0 1 Release 31 05 2013 Removed dependency to PHP pdo_mysql framework database models now work with native wpdb object Improved backwards compatibility up to WP 3 3 tested on 3 3 x 3 4 x 3 5 x Adjusted log timestamp format to blog date time settings Version 1 0 0 Initial Release 26 05 2013