Title: Include Custom Fields in Post E-mails
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Include Custom Fields in Post E-mails

 *  Resolved [EagleRock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eaglerock/)
 * (@eaglerock)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-custom-fields-in-post-e-mails/)
 * Hi,
 * I am setting up a WordPress site to be used as an outage bulletin site for my
   company. We are looking to purchase the HTML version to have nicer e-mails sent
   out, but are working on a proof-of-concept using text. I am using the Advanced
   Custom Fields plugin to make creating posts easier, as all of our posts follow
   a standard format. Here’s a snippet of our post content as an example:
 *     ```
       Status: [acf field="status"]
   
       Service Disruption Start Time: [acf field="startTime"]
   
       Service Disruption End Time: [acf field="endTime"]
   
       Location: [acf field="location"]
       ```
   
 * The custom fields are automatically populated on the website itself and display
   correctly. However, when a status e-mail is sent out via Subscribe2, the custom
   fields are not populated, and the area where they should be (after the colons)
   are blank.
 * Is there a way to add these custom fields into the body of the subscriber e-mail?
   I was unable to do this using the Subscribe2 Templates on the Admin Page, nor
   was I able to find where I could add this in the code. Many Thanks!
 * Regards,
 * Peter
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/)

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 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-custom-fields-in-post-e-mails/#post-3337805)
 * [@eaglerock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eaglerock/),
 * This plugin is not familiar to me but it seems to work by registering a custom
   post type. (It may also register custom post taxonomies too but I can’t be sure).
 * The [FAQs](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/faq/) explains how 
   you can extend Subscribe2 to include custom post types and taxonomies starting
   at the “How do I make use of the support for Custom Post Types” heading. In this
   case the post type is ‘acf’. Try that and see if that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [EagleRock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eaglerock/)
 * (@eaglerock)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-custom-fields-in-post-e-mails/#post-3337833)
 * [@mattyrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/),
 * Thanks for your assistance! I actually was not able to get it to work over plaintext,
   but it is working as expected with the HTML preview. At least I know it will 
   work once we purchase and install the HTML version of subscribe2. Thanks again!
 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-custom-fields-in-post-e-mails/#post-3337866)
 * [@eaglerock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eaglerock/),
 * It looks like the custom fields are populated with short codes. As that’s dynamic
   it’ll probably not work well with plain text, should be fine in HTML though.

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 * Last reply from: [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-custom-fields-in-post-e-mails/#post-3337866)
 * Status: resolved