Here is a short snippet that sends an email when you publish a new post on your blog. This code can also work for Custom Post Types.
add_action('future_to_publish', 'send_emails_on_new_event');
add_action('new_to_publish', 'send_emails_on_new_event');
add_action('draft_to_publish' ,'send_emails_on_new_event');
add_action('auto-draft_to_publish' ,'send_emails_on_new_event');
/**
* Send emails on event publication
*
* @param WP_Post $post
*/
function send_emails_on_new_event($post)
{
$emails = "[email protected], [email protected]"; //If you want to send to site administrator, use $emails = get_option('admin_email');
$title = wp_strip_all_tags(get_the_title($post->ID));
$url = get_permalink($post->ID);
$message = "Link to post: n{$url}";
wp_mail($emails, "New post published: {$title}", $message);
}
The result will look something like:
[Title] New post published: Your Post
Link to post:
http://site.co.il/your-post/
If you want to enable this for a specific Custom Post Type, add a condition inside the function like this:
...
if(get_post_type($post->ID) === 'page') //post, page, attachment or whatever other CPT you may have
{
//use wp_mail() here!
}
...