Not built in, nope.
And ya know? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a plugin for that. But really, that’s more of a mailing list and less of a blog type thing, no?
But really, that’s more of a mailing list and less of a blog type thing, no?
That’s never bothered me. I have separate installations of WordPress customized for use as a content management system, blog, intranet, extranet, wiki, mailing list, and forum. WordPress is a publishing platform. I fail to see the utility in limiting “publishing platform” to only blogging. 🙂
Currently for one of my extranets, I’m using the Notify Members plugin to send full-text HTML e-mail notifications to users about new posts and comments. It would be really nice if I could set up WordPress so that recipients of these e-mail notifications could add a comment to the discussion directly from their e-mail client. Right now, they have to log in to add a comment, which is viewed as an inconvenience.
Oh, I’m not necessarily disagreeing with the concept. 🙂
Okay. Since I know enough PHP to hack up a plugin, basically, I’m asking if someone could outline what I would need to do in order to set up a way to reply to an full-text e-mail of a new post or comment to add a comment to the post via e-mail.
I imagine this means looking at how the “post via e-mail” system works, creating a similar “comment via e-mail” address that suffixes the post ID, and developing a way for WordPress to parse e-mails into comments.
Am I headed in the right direction?
The trick will be dealing with the inevitable spammers/dorks that figure it out too… But yeah, at a high level I’d say you’re on the right track.
At the very simplist, you want to process an email, recognize the post it belongs to and add the comment to the comments table.
Probably some code in this plugin that may help or inspire: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
