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I’m trying to send a private message when a new user signs up welcoming them to the site.

I created a plugin but it’s not working so I’m suspecting messages_new_message isn’t right. Everything else was tested and works, except for messages_new_message.

add_action( ‘user_register’, ‘welcome_user’ );

function welcome_user($user_id) {
global $wpdb;

$recipients = ‘$user_id’;
$subject = “Welcome to the site”;
$content = “This is a test message.”;

messages_new_message( array( ‘recipients’ => $recipients, ‘subject’ => $subject, ‘content’ => $content ));
}