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  • March 24, 2023 at 9:35 PM #41202
    ShemzoneShemzone
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    Hello to all
    I have a function that sends a notification to the author of an article once their article is published using the transition_post_status hook.
    I have no problem with the notification itself using the transition_post_status hook but I can't get the value of the fields I want to display in the message sent.

    Here is my function:

    add_action( 'transition_post_status', 'notify_author_on_publish', 20, 3 );
function notify_author_on_publish( $new_status, $old_status, $post_id ) {
    $post = get_post($post_id);
    // Get the post data.
    $author_email = rwmb_meta( "author_email", "", $post_id );
    $firstname = rwmb_meta( "firstname", "", $post_id );
    if ( 'publish' !== $new_status ||
        $new_status === $old_status ||
        'my-custom_post-type' !== get_post_type( $post ) ) {
        return;
    }
$subject = "Hi " . $firstname. ", your post has been approved: " . $post->post_title . "";
$body = "Hi " . $firstname. "and so on...";

wp_mail( '[email protected]', $subject, $body ); //Issue: cannot get $author_email value.

    Thanks a lot for your help

    March 25, 2023 at 4:02 PM #41210
    ShemzoneShemzone
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    [SOLVED]
    I had to use 

     function notify_author_on_publish( $new_status, $old_status, $post )...
 $author_email = rwmb_meta( "author_email", "", $post->ID );
 $firstname = rwmb_meta( "firstname", "", $post->ID );

    instead of

     function notify_author_on_publish( $new_status, $old_status, $post_id )...
 $author_email = rwmb_meta( "author_email", "", $post_id );
 $firstname = rwmb_meta( "firstname", "", $post_id );
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