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
- 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. - install postie plugin and configure
- download blat
- 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