WordPress tip: Send article to a friend by email

WordPress tip: Send article to a friend by email

In order to create more traffic on your blog, it can be a good idea to let your readers send your posts to their friends by email. A few month ago, I already shown you a function to do that, here is an improved version for today.

To apply this recipe to your blog, simply paste the following function into your functions.php file, and that's all. Hard to do something simpler!

function direct_email($text="Send by email"){
        global $post;
        $title = htmlspecialchars($post->post_title);
        $subject = 'Sur '.htmlspecialchars(get_bloginfo('name')).' : '.$title;
        $body = 'I recommend this page : '.$title.'. You can read it on : '.get_permalink($post->ID);
        $link = '<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:?subject='.rawurlencode($subject).'&amp;body='.rawurlencode($body).'" title="'.$text.' : '.$title.'">'.$text.'</a>';
        return $link;
}

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9 Responses

Dalton

Nov 13 2009 20:15

Using a mailto link is fine, but I think a pop-up form is much more useful.

We use addthis.com – about 40% of our shares are via email, 40% via facebook, the rest are twitter, stumble, delicious, etc.

Nesbad

Nov 14 2009 18:45

Dear Jean-Baptiste Jung
Thanks for that tip.
Before I am using it I’d like to share with all of you my dilema considering copied contents. Dew to my bad experience sending an artticle via mail might make it easy to be copied.