How to automatically email contributors when their posts are published

Nothing complicated with this recipe. Copy the code below and paste it on your functions.php file. Then save the file, and you’re done!

function wpr_authorNotification($post_id) {
   global $wpdb;
   $post = get_post($post_id);
   $author = get_userdata($post->post_author);

   $message = "
      Hi ".$author->display_name.",
      Your post, ".$post->post_title." has just been published. Well done!
   ";
   wp_mail($author->user_email, "Your article is online", $message);
}
add_action('publish_post', 'authorNotification');

Thanks to Daniel Pataki for the great piece of code!

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