I am actually writing this post in my Gmail account. Here is what you
need to do when you want to publish a post to your Wordpress blog by
sending email messages:
- Create a very secret email address, the one that nobody could guess. If other people know this email address, they can post to your blog with no restrictions.
- In your WordPress Settings, go to Writing Settings, and find Post via e-mail section. Input the your secret mail address and password, and choose a default category of your emailed posts.
- Send an email to your secret address.
- Edit your wp-mail.php under the WordPress installation directory, find this line, and change the line below it into ‘publish’:
// Author not found in DB, set status to pending. Author already set to admin. $post_status = 'publish';
- In your browser, visit your wp-mail.php so that your emailed posts will be published. This is the url I feed to my browser: http://www.thinkweird.info/wp-mail.php
Your emailed posts should appear in your front page now.
Limitations:
- I am not sure how to tag this post, neither do I know how to insert pictures into this email message which is going to be posted.
- You can’t use Rich formatting to format your posts, just use plain text. As common HTML tags will be stripped.
- Only good for a very plain, words only post.
Advantages:
- Good for travelers with limited computer availability.
- Very efficient. It is like writing an email message to your readers, and you may even be inspired when posting in this unorthodox method.
Tip:
To automatically publish emailed posts, and avoid visiting wp-mail.php every time after you send a post, add the following line to the bottom of footer.php of your theme. Remember to use your own URL instead of mine.
<iframe src="http://thinkweird.info/wp-mail.php" name="mailiframe" width="0" height="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title=""></iframe>