Mini Mods - Wordpress BlogMail Mod - Auto create Blog posts on Wordpress with VB

BlogMail mod for Wordpress by doa24uk

This is similar to my Blogmail mod for Blogger which does the same thing but for Blogger & Blogger.com Blogs.

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This Mod will automatically create a new Blog post on any self-hosted Wordpress (NOT wordpress.com) blog directly & automatically when a new forum topic is created.

Users can select which forums to apply this to & it also works with multiple forums.


Installation Instructions - Please see attached text file.

If you use this Mod, please click install to be notified of any updates or bugfixes.
If you like this Mod, please nominate it for Mod of the Month (MOTM).

[doa24uk]

Originally Posted by jmpa

What do you mean with "direct"? Each one will have its own separate comments, unfortunately...

Yes

Thanks for answering his queries

Just to clarify though, the mod sends an email which is then converted into a WP post (blog entry).

You can include hyperlinks to anywhere within that email (blog post) therefore you can have a line that says "This is part of a discussion on Board X. To join in the discussion, click here"

That will then link directly back to the original topic ... I've also included a code example in the mod comments of how to acheive this

Originally Posted by Suiko Jin

Now I only need a mod that converts pre existing threads on vB to my wordpress. But ah well. Good stuff.

This is achievable ... Please PM me.

[Audax666]

Hi,

very good idea. Thanks for that and "installed".
But I got some problems to get this working.
First, in step 1 what do i take for "Server - mail.yoursite.com"?
I created an email adress user1@oneofmysites.de and if want to setup a new adress in outlook or what ever i use the servername of my provider
pop.myprovider.de or imap.myprovider.de or smtp.myprovider.de.
Which one should I enter?
And Second, no mail ist send to the created mail account of the user from Step 1. I justed checked it via webmail. Or who long does it take until the email ist send? I just created a thread, waited for a few seconds and deleted it.
And the plugin should starting to work when I adjust these both lines:
case 'XX':
and
$to = "myrandomtext@yoursite.com";
isn't it?
Would be very nice, if you could give me a hint, getting this to work.

[Audax666]

With who I have to sleep to get a hint?
Just joking!
Would be kind if you could help, cause I love the idea of your hack and prepared everything.
It just doesn't work

[Brandon Sheley]

great idea!
thanks for sharing with us

[Mc_Bozo]

It doesnt work for me... Any idea?

[Audax666]

Any support?
Anyone who got this thing to work?

[columbusgeek]

Maybe you guys who are saying this does not work could provide some information or more details.
You are essentially taking your car to the garage and telling the mechanic something is wrong, good luck guessing what.

[Audax666]

You are right, but I did it here before.
I don't want to complain, just want to get it working.

[Alucard^]

What happen if i use something like, bbcodes in the post? What happen in the blog post? work normally or have some bugs with that?

Thx and sry for my english.

[doa24uk]

Originally Posted by Alucard^

What happen if i use something like, bbcodes in the post? What happen in the blog post? work normally or have some bugs with that?

Thx and sry for my english.

You can configure exactly what gets sent to Wordpress when you install ... if you've chosen to send the topic info then it'll be parsed into HTML

[*b] becomes <b*> etc.