Custom Post Type

In the notification setting page, We have option to select CATEGORY, MAIL SUBJECT, SUBSCRIBER GROUP. We are sending notification mail based on this setting.

In the settings I don’t see anything to use a custom post type. It seems by default notifications work for the default blog post type of ‘post’ and I don’t see settings to choose a custom post type instead. My blog instead is using a custom post type with custom fields as well.

So custom post types are not supported? Any idea how I’d be able to modify the plugin to send a notification for a new entry of a custom post type with custom fields?

If you have special requirements, you can modify below mentioned page.

File : classes\es-sendmail.php

Whenever new posts published, that will trigger the method es_prepare_notification() in the above mentioned file name. You can modify that method as per your requirements. happy coding.

Above really helps. Can you, please, give information about how (were, which file) to modify to create recently published posts list including custom post types?

At present it will not support custom post type. i will include this option in future.

This is how a developer I work with was able to get the plugin working with a custom post type we created:

Line 77 ($category = get_the_category( $post_id );) in db_notification.php was commented out and replaced with $category = get_the_terms( $post_id, ‘category’ );. The get_the_category function does not work with CPT’s and get_the_terms is universal.
    CPT args included the following: ‘taxonomies’ => array('post_tag', 'category')
    Since the plugin only works when a category is assigned, the taxonomy 'category' was added to the CPT blog. Posts have a default category of ‘unassigned’ which is why it works with the plugin so I added an action for when posts are saved to add the category ‘unassigned’ if a category isn't assigned.

add_action( 'save_post', 'set_default_category' ); function set_default_category( $post_id ) {
 // Get the terms
$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $post_id, ‘category'); 

 // Only set default
if no terms are set yet if (!$terms) {
 // Assign the default category $taxonomy = ‘category';
 wp_set_object_terms( $post_id, 1, $taxonomy );
 }
 }

Please let me know if you have any questions and if similar functionality will be included in a plugin update. Thank you!

The ability to use Custom Post Types would be great please.

version 2.5

Now plugin supports custom post type. i.e. With this plugin version, you can able to send automatic newsletter/notification emails when you publish custom posts.