WordPress.com
WordPress.com email integration
ForwardThis drafts a WordPress post or page out of an email, with its excerpt, its slug, its categories and its tags. It can publish or schedule it, and approve a comment waiting in the moderation queue.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect WordPress.com
Create a free account and connect WordPress.com. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made, and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Announcement copy for the Harrogate opening
Turn this into a draft post called "We're opening in Harrogate", and remind me to publish it on Friday morning.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Final wording below, signed off by Ruth this afternoon. Opening date is 12 September and the address is on Parliament Street.
Drafted We're opening in Harrogate
quaysidekitchens.com
Publish the Harrogate announcement
Friday, 9am
ForwardThis checks with you before it publishes, then replies to confirm.
Some other examples
- “Publish the Harrogate announcement post.”
- “Add this paragraph to the end of the pricing post.”
- “What have I got sitting in drafts?”
Everything ForwardThis can do in WordPress.com
Find pages
List posts and pages
Read a record
Read a post
Create document
Draft a post or page
Edit document
Edit, schedule or publish a post
Change tags
File a post under categories and tags
Search messages
Read the site's comments
Update CRM record
Approve, unapprove, spam or trash a comment
Read a report
Site traffic summary
Save file
Add an attachment to the media library
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How does the WordPress email integration work?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction saying what the post should be called, like "draft a post called We're opening in Harrogate". It writes the draft from the email on the WordPress.com site you connected and replies with a link to it. The first time, you'll need a free account with WordPress.com connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire WordPress email integration. Posting to WordPress by email has a page of its own.
- Does it publish straight to my site?
- Not unless you say so. Everything arrives as a draft you can open and edit. Publishing is a separate instruction, and it checks with you first and names the site it's about to appear on, because a live page is a public thing.
- Can it edit a post I already have?
- Yes. Name the post and it can change the title, change the content, or switch it between draft and published. If you undo within 24 hours it puts the previous title, content and status back, and it refuses if the post has been edited again since, so it can never overwrite someone else's work.
- Does this work with self-hosted WordPress?
- No. This connects to WordPress.com sites. Self-hosted WordPress works differently, so it would need its own connection rather than this one, and it isn't available yet.
- How is this different from WordPress's own Post by Email?
- Post by Email takes whatever you send to a secret address and turns the whole thing into a post, headers, signature and all, on one site with a fixed setting for whether it publishes. ForwardThis reads your instructions, so you decide the title, whether it stays a draft, and what happens next, and the same address handles the rest of your apps too.