Title: Email Post Activation
Author: paulmac
Published: <strong>March 5, 2009</strong>
Last modified: April 13, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Email Post Activation

 By [paulmac](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulmac/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-post-activation.zip)

 * [Details](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-activation/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-activation/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-activation/#installation)
 * [Development](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-activation/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-post-activation/)

## Description

WordPress allows posting via email, but must be told to check for emails. This is
achieved by calling wp-mail.php using either a cron job, or by including a hidden
iframe in your blog footer.

This plugin adds the iframe to the blog footer without editing the theme – updating
your theme won’t break your ability to email in posts to WordPress.

## Installation

 1. Upload email-post-activation.php to your WordPress plugins folder.
 2. Activate the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page.

## FAQ

  I don’t see anything in my blog. Where is the iframe?

The iframe used to call the wp-mail.php file is hidden. Its width and height have
been set to 0. If you want to check that the plugin has loaded correctly:

 1. Right click in your browser window.
 2. Click View Source from the pop-up menu.
 3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and look for a line that looks something like 
    this:

<iframe src=”http://www.myblog.com/myblog/wp-mail.php” name=”mailiframe” width=”
0″ height=”0″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” title=””>

  I activated the plugin, and I still don’t see anything. Are you sure this works?

Yes, I’m sure it works 🙂

If you’re using caching on your site, such as WP Super Cache, then you may have 
to clear the cache before you can see the code.

  How do I set up posting via email?

You can read more about Blogging by Email at [https://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email](https://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email)
on the WordPress Documentation site.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Email Post Activation” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ paulmac ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulmac/)

[Translate “Email Post Activation” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/email-post-activation)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-post-activation/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/email-post-activation/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/email-post-activation/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/email-post-activation/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 1.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-activation/)
 * Tags
 * [activation](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/activation/)[browser](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/browser/)
   [email](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email/)[post](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://syr.wordpress.org/plugins/email-post-activation/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ paulmac ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paulmac/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-post-activation/)

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