WordPress is equipped with a text editor that makes writing and posting easy. But for that, you will always be asked to connect to your dashboard. For some, performing this action can be very tiring in the long run, because they may have to be constantly connected to their mailboxes.

For other users, blog administrators multi-author, they may wish to receive contributions from other people without necessarily having an account on their blog.

For these users, there is a solution on WordPress, which allows them to publish articles from their mailboxes.

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to make this possible on your WordPress blog.

But, if you've never installed WordPress discover How to Install a WordPress Blog in 7 Steps et How to search, install and activate a WordPress theme on your blog 

But back to why we are here. 

The publication of an article from an email box is possible thanks to the plugin jetpack. Make sure you have it installed and have enabled the option " publication by Email"

Discover in this blog post How to install a plugin in WordPress

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Then from your dashboard go to " User > Your profile And activate "Publication by Email« . This action will generate a unique email address from which you can send the article. Copy this address, as you will be using it to publish the article from your inbox.

All users who have the privilege " Publish the message", such that authors and editors, will also need to generate their own address, for publication from an email box.

Discover How to allow users to edit certain pages

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You must however be careful, since anyone will be able to publish articles, if they manage to have your email address generated. (the one you are sending the article from)

How to send your article

Today we go publish an article from an email account. We will use Gmail in this tutorial.

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To have this result.

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For collaborators, their articles will be pending validation, and not published directly. Don't forget to define the default category in the settings.

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To set a default category, go to: « Settings >> Writing"

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You can also use shortcodes to configure your item. You can specify the categories of the article the keywords, the slug of the article (item address, when you have chosen a permalink which displays the title of the article in the URL), Etc.

The following is a list of shortcodes that you can use:

  • [title Title of your article] - you can set the title of the article this way.
  • [Slug-url-of-the-article] - the slug of the article.
  • [category x, y, z] - you can specify the categories of the article. If the categories indicated do not exist, they will be created.
  • [tags x, y, z] - the keywords of the article.
  • [excerpt] an extract [/ excerpt]: to define the content of the extract.
  • [delay +1 hour] - schedule the publication. in this example we have delayed the article by an hour (1 hour).
  • [comments on | off] - authorize or not the Comments on the article.
  • [status publish  | pending | draft | private ] - set the status of the article [published | Waiting | Draft | Private].
  • [password secret-password] - password defined for the article.
  • [more] - split the article, display only the first part of the article.
  • [Nextpage] - Indicates another part of the article.

You can place your shortcodes anywhere in the article, however we recommend that you put the shortcodes at the beginning of the article.

This plugin can be a solution, if you receive the articles of your collaborator in your mailbox. However, the only problem with this tutorial is that you will not be able to set the article format, and featured image.

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Conclusion

Here is ! That's it for this tutorial. We hope that it will allow you to publish your articles by email on WordPress. Do not hesitate to share with your friends on your favorite social networks

However, you will also be able to consult our resources, if you need more elements to carry out your projects of creation of Internet sites, by consulting our guide on the WordPress blog creation.

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