Send WordPress posts from the command-line by email

Sending textfiles and images as post to WordPress by email 

• Have *.txt files in a directory per category.
• The name of the txt-file is the post subject
• Add an image with the same name for a featured image.
• Works on any windows machine.
• Category is sent in the subject in this form:  [CategoryName] Subject

1. setup an smtp/pop3 email account:
   in this example: wp12345@email.com
   make sure you create a hard to guess email box to avoid spam.
2. install postie plugin and configure
3. download blat
4. create a wp-post.cmd file as follows, and adjust to your situation:

   @echo off
   
   FOR %%f IN (E:\Users\Rob\Stack\ufootje.nl\wordpress\postbyemail\categories\BikeTrips\*.txt) DO ( call :postfile2wp "%%f" )
   goto end
   
   :postfile2wp
   set Folder=%~dp1
   set Filename=%~nx1
   set Descr=%~n1
   set ImgFile="%Folder%%Descr%.jpg"
   if exist %ImgFile% ( call :postfilewithimage %1 "[BikeTrips] %Descr%" %ImgFile%) else ( call :postfile %1 "[BikeTrips] %Descr%" ) 
   EXIT /B
   
   :postfile
   c:\tools\blat.exe %1 -subject %2 -to wp12345@email.com -server smtp.email.com -u your@email.com -pw mypassword -f your@email.com 
   exit /b
   
   :postfilewithimage
   c:\tools\blat.exe %1 -subject %2 -attach %3 -to wp12345@email.com -server smtp.email.com -u your@email.com -pw mypassword -f your@email.com 
   exit /b
   
   
   :end
   pause