Email – clickable list/link

Like email them using our default mail software?

< a href="mailto:[email protected]" >employee< / a > should do the trick (wihtout the extra spaces, of course). Simple HTML.

For Reference:
https://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html

Regards

Where would I put the HTML line? Should it be sidebar.php? I want to do this from a list where each person is currently set as a link.

I thought I could make the ULI their email, that didn’t work.

Where do you want the link, in your sidebar? If yes just put the <a href... link as described by Cypher in your sidebar.php.

Okay, I have a calendar in the sidebar that appears after the archives, where should the email line be put? I don’t want to mess up the sidebar.

How about just adding Links via Administration > Links > Add Link and in the URI type:

mailto:[email protected]

Bob – you can place the email links wherever you want them to show up… before, after, between other elements… it’s your own choice.

Okay, I tried;
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lacing an HTML line in sidebar, didn’t work.

As MichaelH suggested tried it in the link area as a mailto, that didn’t work.

Any other suggestions?

I had no problem putting a Link in with a mailto: URI. Can you provide a link to your site to see that particular link.

Spam.
List email addresses openly and the spambots will do their work.

Good Point!

What about giving each person their own page, with a contact form in it?

how about making a contact form in PHP and then having a variable in it that accepts the name of the employee. then you can put a switch statement that matches the name of the employee and sends email to the respective email address. that way spam bots will not be able to pick the email addresses up.

abhideydas – apparantly he’s not too familiar with coding, which is why the contact form plugin might on individual employee pages might be an easier option…

try here: https://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/

I have installed the Contact Form and will see how well it fits the needs. The main problem is that I am doing this at someone else’s request, I’m not really sure what is wanted, what I was told first was to make a list of employee name that can be clicked which would send an email to that person. Today I was told to set up a way to send an email to a whole category so all the employees will get emails. Thanks for all your help and the Contact Form does work, as advertised, I just need to see if it can be used for their needs.

Great, Bob – I hope it all works out for you – it’s always best when the client lets YOU make the call! lol