~chuck/blog

I’m sure that there are about 18 million people that already know how to
“Blog by Email”, and do it on a regular basis. But I just learned about
it, and thought I would share.

At this URL, there is a plethora of information for configuring this
“Blog by Email” setup. It took me about thirty-eight seconds to
implement:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email

Basically, I navigated to Settings->Writing and scrolled all the way
down. Just above the credentials area for your mail account, it
provides three suggested usernames that you can use. Definitely, one
should use a random or “hidden” email address, because it will be less
likely that your blog will fill up with spam. Once the credentials were
put in place, I clicked “Save Changes” and navigated to the wp-mail.php
script, which told me I had an email. Then the test message (not this
one, the goofy one i removed; shame on me) appeared as the most recent
entry on my blog! Awesome!

“Blog by Email” allows me the freedom to update my blog from anywhere
without having to use my login credentials on some random computer.
Then again, I suppose I would have to login to my email anyway, but eh?
What’re ya gonna do, right?

I’ve found it sometimes cumbersome and difficult to post as frequently
as I would like because I would have to login and navigate around the
admin page, then retype everything when my browser crashes, etc. Now, I
can work at my pace, save a draft or two along the way, and write in
between work or play, because I always have my email client open.

You should give it a try too!

/cs