Switch Messaging to Mailto:

[engineroom]

Our client would like to switch the messaging system to email links rather than using the messaging system. Is there a quick way to do this via the templates?

If we can alter the messaging links to:

mailto:[SELLER-EMAIL]?subject=[LISTING-TITLE]

That would be ideal.

Thanks for any help you can offer.
Joe

[yevhen]

If only the email-based link is required then the Messages extension is not required at all, please try adding a custom Email attribute and set the <a href="mailto:%value%">Contact</a> display format for it. To avoid duplicating email addresses in the listing form, it may also be possible with a code snippet (based on the vendor email).

[engineroom]

Any ideas where to start with the code snippet please? Just a point in the right direction would be advised and we can take it from there.

[yevhen]

Please try this PHP snippet but please note that it can require further customization

add_filter(
	'hivepress/v1/templates/listing_view_page/blocks',
	function( $blocks, $template ) {
		$listing = $template->get_context('listing');

		if($listing && $listing->get_vendor()->get_user__email()){
			
			$blocks = hivepress()->helper->merge_trees(
					[ 'blocks' => $blocks ],
					[
					'blocks' => [
						'listing_actions_primary' => [
							'blocks' => [
								'listing_vendor_email_custom' => [
										'type'    => 'content',
										'content' => '<a href="mailto:'.esc_html($listing->get_vendor()->get_user__email()).'">Send email</a>',
										'_order'  => 1,
								],
							],
						],
					],
				]
				)['blocks'];
		}
		
		return $blocks;
	},
	1000,
	2
);

[engineroom]

Thank you so much for that!