WordPress 2.2 Blog by Email Fixed

WordPress 2.2 has a problem with not posting the body of the email message when posting by email to your blog.

Replacing the class-pop3.php in the wp-includes directory with the 2.13 version fixed the email posting problem (blog by email).

Also, Gmail does not work with posting by email. I had to use my hosting providers (www.1and1.com) email program to fix that problem.

Give it a try and see how it works for you.

Disclaimer: I’m not sure if changing back to a prior version of a WordPress file will cause problems in other areas. Use at your own risk.

WordPress 2.2 Blog by Email Bug

There is a problem with Blog by Email in WordPress 2.2 that will remove the body of the email message after posting it to your blog. This link gives the details.

I’m going to replace the class-pop3.php for WordPress 2.2 to the file in WordPress 2.13 (wp-includes/class-pop3.php).

Without this change the Speed Link Site won’t work.

I will post back with the results.

Google My Blog:Creating Speed Link Sites with WordPress

What is a Speed Link Site?

I came up with the name based on “speed linking” in blogs. This is where you have a group of links together in a post based on a specific topic. A lot of blogger use these for weekly News summaries. Here is an example from Problogger.

These are interesting but I thought they would even be better if you could automate the whole process so little interaction is required.

By using free software (WordPress & Plug-ins) and automated searches (Google Alerts) you can create sites that don’t require a group of researchers and web developers to create and maintain.

Creating a Speed Link Site

Here is how I think this can be accomplished:

1. Download and Install Wordpress on your webserver.

2. Create Google Alerts to search for a topic and then post the results back to an email address. I would setup the alert for “as they happen” so the messages are posted as individual entries (more on this later). Also use “text alerts” so they do not mess up the formatting when posting in WordPress.

3. Setup email posting in WordPress so the Google Alerts are automatically sent to WordPress. Setup a category for each alert in WordPress. This will keep the postings cleaner looking.

4. Then using an update program in WordPress like Cron Demo from Designpraxis it could automatically gather the email posts on a daily basis.

5. Install a WP-PostRatings Program to allow users to rate the postings. This way the readers do the sorting and rating work for you. This is why you want to setup the Google Alerts as the happen so each alert is its own posting in WordPress.

6. Display the top rated posts in a widget so the best article “float” to the top of the list.

Example Sites

Celebrity/Fan Site

Come up with a list of stars (Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears, etc) you want all the updates on and create alerts for each with their own WordPress categories. Now you will get alerted each time something posts about them and an new entry in WordPress.

Technology Site

Setup your own version of Digg with automatic subject feeds posted in WordPress and user ranking the content. This can be a site for WordPress, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 or any other technology you can think search on.

Final Thoughts

This type of site can be used to create a new site or add to an existing site as a new information source for your blog. In addition, it runs itself so you don’t have to spend hours each day searching on the Internet for new topics. Let Google do that for you using its spiders and then post it with your bots.

Could it get easier than this?

Has anyone created a WordPress site like this?