Thinkweird Blog

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:

• Enter the Mail section on your C-Panel.
  
• 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.

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