Custom post types not available

@dmcanaveral

congratulations on a great website and a great theme what parallax theme are you using?

You need to create some categoryies to apply to your posts then create several mail groups in email subscriber then you associate each category to each group in post notifications.

You can create numerous groups with your email address as a dummy subscriber then you sign a category to that group when in post notifications.

Meanwhile you will have to also create a mail notification template to be used by the group, you will pull all three of these areas together in post notifications..

its really easy once the penny drops that you have to make several groups if required (e.g. activities/events/news) or just one group then have the same subscriber in all or the one group, hope kick that starts you in the correct direction..

Andrew

PS..

Im not Icegram, I thought I would just point out what i think you are missing for your site setup, having gone through it myself..

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your reply and kind words. It’s a custom theme designed and developed by the agency I work for, Ride For The Brand. We used ScrollMagic for the parallax.

So I’ve got my post categories showing up just fine, and I have the plugin working exactly the way I need it to, it just doesn’t show any custom post types for me to be able to check. And I do have custom post types created on the site. I can’t figure out how to upload a screenshot, otherwise I’d upload one of the Edit Notification screen where you select the categories.

Same question here, how to use custom post types. We need different subscriber lists for different types, so I’m hoping you can configure that, eg. create a group for default type ‘post’, and another group for custom ‘private-post’, and one more for ‘classifieds’.

And a companion question, can custom taxonomies be used? Eg. the ‘post’ group uses the default taxonomy, but ‘classifies’ group has categories from a different taxonomy available.

I’d love to let users pick what categories of a custom post type they subscribe to, eg. get notified of new classified ads, but only for categories of interest, but I imagine that’s pushing the front-end subscription interface to too far.

Is there an api for developers to customize anything? I’ve not found any documentation on such.

@dmcanaveral, what settings are your custom post types registered with? I did a little digging and found that custom post types are excluded if they are not set with public=true and exclude_from_search=false.

In the short term you can tweak line 209 in notification/notification-add.php to change that behavior, which is currently: $args=array('public'=> true, 'exclude_from_search'=> false, '_builtin' => false);

Long term it would be nice to have that fixed; we intentionally set exclude_from_search to false, but still would like to email subscribers when a new post is published.

@dmcanaveral , @jnorell ,

Noting it down. We’ll fix it.