Reply notifications with entire thread in the email

[alias3728]

I have it so the full reply content is in the email notification, but only the reply that the user posted. What I need is the ability to have the entire threaded conversation, most recent first, kind of like how an email thread would look. Aiming for this to be kind of a clone of how Yahoo Groups works.

Can this be done, and if so, how so?

[useStrict]

Hi @alias3728,

Thanks for reaching out. You can modify the body of the notification by hooking into the bbpnns_filter_email_body_in_build filter:

function alias3728_munge_body( $email_body, $type, $post_id )
{
    if ( 'reply' === $type ) {
        // do something with the email body here
    }
    return $email_body;
}
add_filter( 'bbpnns_filter_email_body_in_build', 'alias3728_munge_body', 10, 3 );

But I suspect that if you’re not careful, it might be resource intensive. The $post_id variable will be the reply_id which you can use to fetch the topic and then its children from and build the notification body the way you want it.

And as a bonus, you can use the Reply by Email premium add-on to allow, well, replies by email :).

I hope that helps!

Cheers,
Vinny

[alias3728]

Hello,

Thanks for replying. Is there a way to test this without firing off Emails?

[useStrict]

Yes, all you have to do to fire off emails immediately is to check the ‘Send Notifications’ checkbox in a topic (on the backend) and click update.