WordPress send email on add_post_meta

Question

I want to send a notification email to Author when a Custom Meta Field is added to their WordPress Post by add_post_meta or update_post_meta .

So far my code below is working successfully but it executes only when I use Save Post

function order_update_send_email( $post_id ) {

$email_sent = get_post_meta($post_id, 'email_sent', true);
$report = get_post_meta($post_id, 'report', true);

if ( $email_sent == 'Sent' ) {
    return;
}
if ( $report ) {
$post_title = get_the_title( $post_id );
$post_url = get_permalink( $post_id );
$subject = 'Your report for: ' . $post_title;

$message = "Your order is completed\n\n";
$message .= "Report for: " . $post_title . "\n\n Link:" . $post_url;
$message .= "\n\n" . $report;

wp_mail( 'test@email.me', $subject, $message );
update_post_meta($post_id, 'email_sent', 'Sent');
}
}
add_action( 'save_post', 'order_update_send_email' );

In above code the Action hook save_post is working fine but I can't get add_post_meta or update_post_meta to work.

Anyone please advice, thanks.

Answer 1

you can use below sample code for this.

add_action( 'added_post_meta', 'wp_afterpostmeta', 10, 4 );
add_action( 'updated_post_meta', 'wp_afterpostmeta', 10, 4 );
function wp_afterpostmeta( $meta_id, $post_id, $meta_key, $meta_value )
{
    if ( 'wp_meta_key' == $meta_key ) {
        wp_do_something( $post_id, $meta_value );
    }
}