How are people achieving this these days? I realize the old built-in thing is long since deprecated, and it would be easy to create a plain mailto email link that auto-filled the subject and such, but many people use yahoo and gmail and the like these days.
So how are people achieving an email this entry feature that emails an entire post but isn't so susceptible to spam abuse? Any suggestions?
I don't know about anyone else, but I use feedburner for feeds and use their feedflair feature to add an email this link.
Thanks! Neat little item. I'm experimenting with it now.
I'm a little hesitant to use another off-site hosted service (for fear of slowing my site's load time if Feedburner is running slow) and was hoping for a plug-in or something, but this may be a good option, particularly for someone I'm assisting.
Thanks for pointing it out.
For what it is worth, FeedBurner is owned by Google and is run of Google's infrastructure. I suspect that is FeedBurner is slow, then the whole Internet is probably slow. :-P
The trouble is, I think, that if you have like 20 or 30 of those little widgets on a page (one for each post on an index page), you're slowing down no matter what. I started embedding little Google Maps in my entries, too, until I started watching the status bar as the page loaded and realized they were adding to load times too, so so much for that idea.
But thinking about it again, I should just make the link on the index page a link to the email form in the individual entry archive as I used to do with the old built-in business...hmmm...
Aha! Another issue with FeedFlare...it appears if the entry isn't currently in your feed (an older entry), the Feedburner script doesn't pick up on it, either, so that's another bad thing (unless I've got that wrong, too).
Hmmm...yeah, on a page like mine it does add significantly to loading times....
Well, I tried the emailplus/Grouptivity plugin but it's really not customizable at all (it inserts itself automatically in the entrybody with no way (that I can see) to change it.
Looks like I'll be going for the old fashioned mailto: solution for now. Kind of surprised that there's no plugin out there for this considering how ubiquitous the feature is out there on the web. Keeping my eyes open...