Title: Problem with notification mod
Last modified: March 14, 2017

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# Problem with notification mod

 *  [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-notification-mod/)
 * I used some instructions to auto-subscribe user groups found here:
    [http://editflow.org/extend/auto-subscribe-user-groups-for-notifications/](http://editflow.org/extend/auto-subscribe-user-groups-for-notifications/)
 * And added the code to my functions with my actual array of user groups I want
   notified when a post’s $new_status is set to “publish”……but it isn’t working.
   None of the users in the two user groups in my array are getting the notification
   when a post is scheduled (future date). I checked the WP Codex, and there is 
   no ‘scheduled’ status, a post is considered to be changed to ‘publish’ when it
   is scheduled.
 * Here is my actual code added to my functions.php:
 *     ```
       // Auto-subscribe user groups to notifications when post is scheduled or published
       function efx_auto_subscribe_usergroup( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) {
           global $edit_flow;
           if ( 'publish' == $new_status ) {
               // You'll need to get term IDs for your user groups and place them as
               // comma-separated values
               $usergroup_ids_to_follow = array(
                    587,679
                   );
               $edit_flow->notifications->follow_post_usergroups( $post->ID, $usergroup_ids_to_follow, true );
           } // Return true to send the email notification, false to not send
           return $new_status;
       }
       add_filter( 'ef_notification_status_change', 'efx_auto_subscribe_usergroup', 10, 3 );
       ```
   
 * What might I be doing wrong? Any help would be gratefully appreciated!

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 *  Thread Starter [TrishaM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trisham/)
 * (@trisham)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-notification-mod/#post-8922872)
 * Well I *thought* I figured it out…..but alas, it still isn’t working.
 * I somehow missed this when I was reading about post statuses and status transitions,
   but there IS a status called ‘future’…..so I changed my code above to use ‘future’
   instead of ‘publish’, but it still does not auto-notify the user groups. 🙁
 * You may notice that I’m not using ‘$old_status’ as a variable…..this is because
   there are times when the old status can be any of the (non-published) statuses….
   we don’t follow a specific old-to-new path 100% of the time (e.g. we don’t always
   go from ‘pending review’ to ‘future'(scheduled) – occasionally something may 
   go from draft to published or in-progress to future, etc.
 * SO I’m still working on this, any and all suggestions would be appreciated!

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