Title: Programmatically Sending Email Using Woocommerce Template
Last modified: August 9, 2018
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# Programmatically Sending Email Using Woocommerce Template
* Resolved [Chad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aeboi80/)
* (@aeboi80)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/programmatically-sending-email-using-woocommerce-template/)
* I am working on creating a custom Order Action with a custom field called Estimated
Ship Date. When viewing an order in the admin, it’s checking to see if a staff
member has input an Estimated Ship Date for the order, if so it enables the custom
Order Action.
* When the custom Order Action is selected from the dropdown, I need it to send
an email to billing email address with the Estimated Ship Date in the email.
* I created a custom email template which has the code in it, but the issue I’m
running into is actually triggering the email to send programmatically.
* This is the full code I’m using in my plugin.
* ```
/* ############################################
Estimated Ship Date
############################################ */
/**
* Add a custom action to order actions select box on edit order page
*
* @param array $actions order actions array to display
* @return array - updated actions
*/
function bhi_wc_add_order_meta_box_action( $actions ) {
global $theorder;
// bail if the order does not have an estimated ship date
if ( ! get_field('estimated_ship_date') ) {
return $actions;
}
// add "estimated ship date" custom action
$actions['wc_custom_order_action'] = __( 'Send Estimated Ship Date Email', 'bhi-textdomain' );
return $actions;
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_order_actions', 'bhi_wc_add_order_meta_box_action' );
/**
* Send Email to Customer with Estimated Ship Date
*
* @param \WC_Order $order
*/
function bhi_wc_process_order_meta_box_action( $order ) {
function get_custom_email_html( $order, $heading = false, $mailer ) {
$template = 'emails/estimated-ship-date.php';
return wc_get_template_html( $template, array(
'order' => $order,
'email_heading' => $heading,
'sent_to_admin' => false,
'plain_text' => false,
'email' => $mailer
) );
}
// load the mailer class
$mailer = WC()->mailer();
//format the email
$recipient = $order->get_billing_email();
$subject = __("Estimated Ship Date Assigned", 'theme_name');
$content = get_custom_email_html( $order, $subject, $mailer );
$headers = "Content-Type: text/html\r\n";
//send the email through wordpress
$mailer->send( $recipient, $subject, $content, $headers );
// Add Order Note indicated email has been sent
// translators: Placeholders: %s is a user's display name
$message = sprintf( __( 'Estimated shipment date email has been sent by %s', 'bhi-textdomain' ), wp_get_current_user()->display_name );
$order->add_order_note( $message );
}
add_action( 'woocommerce_order_action_wc_custom_order_action', 'bhi_wc_process_order_meta_box_action' );
```
* This is the code I’m using in my custom email template:
* ```
Estimated Ship Date: