Here is my simple discovery. The Wordpress database is quite simple. In fact I am using WordPress Mu (which allows for multiple blogs). There are only a hand full of tables that are very nicely named. For example wp-posts which has the posts!

So why am I so excited about this? Well it would be easy to create a cron job on the server to run a php script that would collect posts from within the last month then create a news letter that would be sent out to everyone on a mailing list.

Of course there may already be a script out there like that, I never searched it yet. Either way it would be easy enough to create your own so that you could customize it exactly how you want with your own templates for it. I guess that will have to be one of my projects.

This is my first blog posting. I have just installed WordPress which is free blogging software.