@johnvanham– We can look into this, but just a thought. Maybe insert some default text in the field. Something you would use instead of placeholder text.

@ssuess– I would create a metabox with all the fields you want:

-author email: gets pulled in automatically
-message

Then in your regular plugin file or themes functions.php try something like this:

function email_on_post_status($post_id)
{
	global $post, $typenow;

	
	$post_status = get_post_status($post_id);

	//verify post is not a revision
	if (!wp_is_post_revision($post_id) && !wp_is_post_autosave($post_id))
	{
          //use get_post_meta to get author email and message. Pass to wp_mail

	 wp_mail($params);
	}
}
add_action('save_post', 'email_on_post_status', 1, 2);
add_action('transition_post_status', 'email_on_post_status', 10, 3);

@gabriel– Welcome to the Piklist community!

Can you post an example of your code here?

@friendlyfire3– you would enter the user login into that text field.

If you want to display a dropdown of users to choose from, this tutorial should help >

@trosario– I can’t reproduce the error. Using your code and db, WP 4.6, default theme and no plugins except Piklist, it works for me. See attached screenshots.

Did you try changing to the default theme to see if that helps?

@kcarwile– Welcome to the Piklist community!

Unfortunately, having two Workflows on the user pages can cause issues. Not really a way around it.

Wish I had better news.

Assuming this is in wp-admin, and when creating/editing a post. Try this (untested):

piklist('field', array(
  'type' => 'group'
  ,'scope' => 'user'
  ,'label' => 'User'
  ,'relate' => array(
    'scope' => 'post'
  )
  ,'fields' => array(
    array(
      'type' => 'text'
      ,'label' => 'Login'
      ,'field' => 'user_login'
      ,'columns' => 6
    )
  )
));

// Display related users
$related = get_users(array(
  'order' => 'DESC'
  ,'user_belongs' => $post->ID
  ,'user_relate' => 'post'
));
?>

<?php if ($related): ?>

  <h4><?php _e('Related Users', 'piklist-demo');?></h4>

  <ol>
    <?php foreach ($related as $related_user): ?>
      <li><?php _e($related_user->user_login); ?></li>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
 </ol>

<?php endif; ?>