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Adding ‘Email Post’ Without a Plugin

Posted by John Saddington on Apr 23, 2009

emailthisAnd yet another great and simple hack that will make you smile!

This is how I create the simple “Email Post” functionality on every single post dynamically without a plugin.

Super easy and super effective!

My reason behind this was simple: More than a few people have told me they’ve emailed the post to friends, staff, and others and I thought that in my redesign I should make it even easier for them.

What it does is simply boot up the user’s email client (like Apple Mail) and auto populate the Subject: and also provides the link in the body.

Superb!

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Here’s my code:
<a href="mailto:?subject=<?php the_title(); ?> - From ChurchCrunch.com&amp;body=<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="Email this Post to a Friend!">Email Post</a>

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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11 Responses to “Adding ‘Email Post’ Without a Plugin”

  1. Luke DeMoss
    Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    Thanks so much for sharing these pieces of code with us! By sharing your expertise in this area, you are allowing us to all do things better!

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  2. chrissulli
    Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Are you literally putting them in the post html on every post or building it in so it is in every post?

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:53 pm

      every post. single.php in the loop.

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      • chrissulli
        Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 9:02 pm

        You win. I think today is the day I actually figure out how my blog works. Here goes nothing.

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        • chrissulli
          Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 9:28 pm

          And I broke it… but then I fixed it! This coding stuff is easy! errr….

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  3. Rich Schmidt
    Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Thanks, John! I'd already swiped your code after you pointed out your method for creating the Tweet this link. :) Works like a charm!

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  4. Jim
    Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    bahahaha~

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  5. Josh Wagner
    Friday, April 24, 2009 at 12:28 am

    Thanks, John, for sharing your code. As I'm building my site it helps to see how the good ones code theirs! ;)

    Reply
  6. Brian Alexander
    Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 3:26 am

    it's not working right with my code. Can you give me some HTML/php help. I want it on the left side on the same line as the comments and catagories. It's not going there tough.

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