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Changing Email Content based on Situation (Taxonomy) in Code

bgorbett
Participant

@bgorbett

6 years, 2 months ago

I have a pretty detailed email template I want to use in BuddyPress that the email post type can’t handle even with adding my own header and footer before and after {{{content}}} in single-bp-email.php.

What I am trying to do now is figure out how to load all the email content in single-bp-email.php and change the content within based on situation (email taxonomy). For instance, when it is a friend request, I would change my link button to {{{friend-requests.url}}} or {{{activate.url}}} when the situation is registered for account.

Is there a reasonable way to do this? Would I iterate through the email taxonomy terms to get the default ones. Is there a list of these somewhere?

https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/custom-emails/ is the deepest discussion on custom emails I could find.

Thanks!

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David Cavins
Keymaster

@dcavins

6 years, 2 months ago
Sounds like an interesting problem.

You can get all the email situation terms by using a WP taxonomy function, like:
```
$terms = get_terms( array(
    'taxonomy' => 'bp-email-type',
    'hide_empty' => false,
) );
```
Though I’d probably spend a bit more time trying to make the built-in email templating system work. It’s pretty flexible, with the templing layer and the classes you can overload if necessary.
bgorbett
Participant

@bgorbett

6 years, 2 months ago

Is it possible to determine which taxonomy is being used in single-bp-email.php using get_terms? It seems like I had it working, but now the email sends content based on all situations.

bgorbett
Participant

@bgorbett

6 years, 2 months ago

I actually meant using get_the_terms. I am not returning any terms when using this in single-bp-email.php:
global $post;
$terms = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), ‘bp-email-type’ );

Is there a better way to determine which situation (term) is being called?
David Cavins
Keymaster

@dcavins

6 years, 2 months ago
Are you sure that get_the_ID() works in that situation (it has to be used in a loop)? What happens if you access the ID like this:
```
global $post;
$terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'bp-email-type' );
```
bgorbett
Participant

@bgorbett

6 years, 2 months ago

I am guessing that is the problem since neither method are returning any ID.

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