Are you looking for a way to send email notifications to WordPress users when their user role changes? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to send email notifications to members when their user role has changed in WordPress.
Instructions:
All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
$site_url = get_bloginfo('wpurl');
$user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );
$to = $user_info->user_email;
$subject = "Role changed: ".$site_url."";
$message = "Hello " .$user_info->display_name . " your role has changed on ".$site_url.", congratulations you are now an " . $new_role;
wp_mail($to, $subject, $message);
}
add_action( 'set_user_role', 'user_role_update', 10, 2);
Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.
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how do I use HTML tags here?
I want to make texte bold
$message = “Hello ” .$user_info->display_name . ” your role has changed on “.$site_url.”, congratulations you are now an ” . $new_role;
You could try using this code for that line:
$message = “Hello ” .$user_info->display_name . ” your role has changed on “.$site_url.”, congratulations you are now an ” . $new_role . ““;
Perfect 👍
Thank you so much 👏
You article has help me but it also sends email to new registrations. I want to use your code for two roles that I want custom messages for. Would this code work for that?
The code would need to be modified to check the value of
$new_role.I used this code but no mail received when I change my role
You may want to check out: https://www.isitwp.com/set-configure-smtp-wordpress/
this one works and does not send email if new register
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
if ($new_role == “customer”) {}
elseif ($new_role == “role1″||”role2”) {
$site_url = get_bloginfo(‘wpurl’);
$user_info = get_userdata( $user_id );
$to = $user_info->user_email;
$subject = “A sua conta foi validada. Pode agora começar a comprar em 1223.com”;
$message = “welcome ” .$user_info->display_name . “! message .” ;
wp_mail($to, $subject, $message);
}}
add_action( ‘set_user_role’, ‘user_role_update’, 10, 2);
This was super helpful! Thank you!
Hi,
1. Thanks for the snippet – but I want to notify user only when the role of existing user is changed.
Now the script sends an email when new user is added to WP.
2. It would be more accurate to send the role name (now it sends the slug)
Any ideas?
Thanks
Hi did you received the snippet? if possible could you share me the link too? cause im facing the same error of not sending a separate email
Hi, thanks for that snippet. What about sending notification when the role is changed to certain name?
Eg. I want to send the notification when the user role is changed to ‘group-x’…
Thanks and kind regards
M
Saved me a day of research!! Thanks a lot.
Any idea how to solve this if you want the email to be sent only when you change their role, not when you set the role? With this snippet, an email will be sent when you add a new user. An email will also be sent when you update e.g a users firstname (not touching the role).
You could try to use get_userdata and verify if the current user role is different than the new one…
Brilliant! Thanks!
Thanks Raam, glad to hear you like it.