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06.25.09 Posting To Your WordPress Blog By Different Paths  By Thomas McMahonDid you know that you can post to a WordPress blog in a number of different ways? Here are 3 alternatives to create content in WordPress other than logging into the blog admin using the built in editor. Post via Email Built into WordPress is the ability for the software to check an email account and post each message it finds to a blog. This serves as a quick and easy way to send an email message and publish new content. To set this feature up, the fist thing you'll need is a custom, secret, email account. Since WordPress posts everything that goes to this account, it can't be one that serves more than one purpose, or that gets spam. Once you have that, go into WordPress and go to the Settings > Writing page. There you'll be asked for your email server, email login, and password.  Post via eMail Settings
After that's setup, you're almost ready to go. The other thing you'll need is a line of code in your blog template that tells WordPress to check the email account. If embedded in your blog template, every time the page loads, WordPress will check the email for new content. The code you'll need can be found here. This is a great feature for people who live in their email as they can write a blog post without ever leaving their email application. However, the downside to this is that I've been unable to get it to work with images, categories, tags, or any customization other than post title and the actual post content. The ease of posting is trumped by the lack of customization. Note: There is also a plugi-n called Postie that takes email integration to the next level, but I haven't yet tested it out. Quickly post with the Press This bookmarklet. Press This is a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser. When you find something you want to blog about, select it and click the Press This bookmarklet. It'll then open a small WordPress post window that is auto-populated with the selected text and allow you to put the finishing touches on the post. The nice thing about Press This is that it can grab text, images and even videos of the web. You will also get all WordPress post options including categories, tags, the media bar, and WordPress' WYSIWYG editor. You can even save the post as a draft for later use. Continue reading this article. About the Author: Thomas McMahon is a SEO Designer for TopRank Online Marketing in Minneapolis, MN. His specialities inlude technical optimization of existing web sites, creating search engine friendly web designs, and blog optimization. He has also created a number of blog marketing tools, WordPress plug-ins and FireFox add-ons. Blog: http://bloggerdesign.com |
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