CoPress

In a search for projects to work on this summer, Will Davis, incoming EIC of The Maine Campus which migrated this summer to WordPress MU, has decided to build a better email newsletters plugin for WordPress. A free option available right now is MailPress but the feature set offers a lot of room for improvement. From a thread we had last week brainstorming ideas, Will put together a feature list for the first iteration he hopes to produce by the fall:

• Ability to ignore certain categories/posts
• Text and E-mail editions
• At least a per-issue and breaking news e-mail option. Best case scenario, customizable newsletter categories
• A basic, customizable template that supports advertising spots
• Ability to send e-mail to all users without an article
• First version will use PHP mail() function

There’s a new thread for those who want to help him refine the feature set for this first version. I’m looking forward to seeing this develop; it’s something that would even be useful in our publishing workflow.