Looking for an easier way to update your blog? WordPress 2.5+ can publish posts that you email to a specific address, either from your usual email service or from your mobile phone.

The default process in WordPress has several drawbacks,however:it doesn’t work with SSL accounts, it requires POP3, and currently it doesn’t work with Images. I prefer a Plug-in called Postie. Besides over coming the limitations in WordPress email support, Postie can enhance your security by publishing only messages sent from a specific address.

To get started, create a new secret mail account on your web server to use exclusively for WordPress content.Next, download the Postie.zip, unzip it and upload to your /wp-content/plugins on your web server.

Create new folders in your root web directory called ‘wp-photos’ and ‘wp-files’ where Postie can save its data. Make sure these two files are write accessible on your server by setting their permissions to 755.

Activate the Postie and configure it via settings->configure Postie.

Click ‘Update options’, and then click ‘Test config’.If you run into any problems, confirm the email account details are correct. Postie should be ready to run now,but you will need to create a scheduled Unix command called a cron job that will regularly check the email account for new messages. In your web server’s configuration interfaces, open the corn jobs tool and create a new job. In the text field for the new job, enter

*5****/usr/bin/lynx- – source http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php>/dev/null 2>&1 (Enter a space after ‘source’)

WordPress will now check for new mail every 5 minutes. Postie will use your email subject line as the title of the blog post, while the body of your mail will become the body for the new post. For more details visit the plugin developer site Economysizegeek.

So, are you using this already? or How you update your blog? Share with us!

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