Post by Email
Contents
- Generating a Post by Email Address
- Sending Emails
- Mail Formatting
- Attachments
- Shortcodes
- Specifying the Category
- Specifying Tags
- Changing your Publicize settings
- Inserting a Polldaddy poll
- Delaying Your Post
- Providing a post title
- Changing your post status
- Geotagging
- Signatures
- Example Email with Shortcodes
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Post by Email is a way of publishing posts on your blog by email. Any email client can be used to send the email, allowing you to publish quickly and easily from devices such as cell phones.
Generating a Post by Email Address
Before you can publish by email, you must generate a special email address. This address is unique to you and must be kept secret.
1) First go to Dashboard > My Blogs.
2) Locate the blog that you wish to post to and click Enable.
You now have a special email address. If you want to add the address to your address book, you can download it as a vCard:
Sending Emails
Once you have your Post by Email address, sending an email is simple:
The email subject is used as your post’s title. The body is the post’s contents. A few minutes after receiving your email, you should receive a notification email informing you of the published post’s details.
Please remember to send the email to your secret email address, not to the example given in the image above.
Mail Formatting
Your email can be plain text or formatted. As much formatting as possible will be retained, although the Post by Email system will strip unnecessary HTML tags so that your email is displayed correctly. Note that you will need to use an email client that supports rich text or HTML formatting in order to make use of this feature. Most website based clients (Hotmail, Gmail) do support this, as do most desktop clients (Outlook, Mail). You may need to switch your client into rich text or formatted mode.
Attachments
Image attachments will be included in your published post as follows:
- Single images will be displayed inline (a single image is defined as an image without an image immediately following it).
- Multiple images will be displayed as a gallery.
Multiple galleries and single images are allowed in the same post. Note that using the shortcode will disable all galleries.
If you have purchased the Space Upgrade, then the following additional attachment types will be supported:
- Supported audio files (mp3) will be displayed using the WordPress Audio player.
- All other files (doc, PDF, etc) will be displayed as links to the attachment.
Additionally, if you’ve purchased the VideoPress Upgrade, you’ll be able to send mp4, mov, wmv, avi, mpg, and m4v files as attachments, which will then be displayed using the WordPress video player.
Note that you can send your attachments to:
media+YOUR_SECRET_EMAIL
Your attachments will just be stored in your account without creating a new post – the attachments will appear alongside your other media.
Shortcodes
Special shortcodes can be embedded in your email to configure various aspects of the published post:
