Include Custom Fields in Post E-mails

  • Resolved EagleRock

    (@eaglerock)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    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://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/subscribe2/

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  • Matt Robinson

    (@mattyrob)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    @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 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

    (@eaglerock)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    @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

    (@mattyrob)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    @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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