Crazy Fingers

I got WordPress to accept posts via email!

This involved a one-time setup:

1. Set up an email account with a difficult name (random numbers and letters).
2. Change the email posting settings in the dashboard.
3. Make a few tweaks in wp-mail.php, which handles posting by email, since the off-the-shelf version of that file was buggy in the way it handles single quotes.
• The first tweak:

         //add this line
         add_filter('phone_content', 'addslashes');
  
         //before this line:
         $post_content = apply_filters('phone_content', $content);

• The second tweak:

         // delete this line
         if (!preg_match('#=?(.+)?Q?(.+)?=#i', $subject)) {
  
              // keep this line
              $subject = wp_iso_descrambler($subject);
  
              // add this line
              $subject = addslashes($subject);
  
         // delete this line
         }
  

4. Set up ‘curl http://www.larryperson.com/blog/wp-mail.php’ as a cron job. wp-mail.php causes WordPress to go check for email sent to that special account.

After you do the one-time setup, if you send mail to the special account you set up in step 1, the mail will appear as a post (with the headers stripped off) in your blog the next time the cron job runs. The subject of the mail becomes the title of the post.