It’s about time I added a plugin to let me blog via email. What with
having a mobile phone which I can email from, it’s the next logical step.
You have seen me blog using the Flickr service. I set up a Flickr
account [utilising my current Yahoo ID] and tell it how to contact my
WordPress blog and set up an account on WP for it. Flickr gives me an
email address to email photos to, but also another email address which
allows me to email photos to Flickr which are automatically posted to my
blog at the same time.
Now, if I only want to post a blog entry without a photo, Flickr won’t
let me do that afaik, so I looked around and WP can already do this
itself. I just had to add in the ‘WP-Cron’ and ‘WP-Cron-mail’ plugins
and set up an account on my bangrocks.com email which I can email blog
entries to and WP will automatically add this to my blog in the Category
I choose [apparently] along with any inline images attached to the
email. NEAT!
It’s about time I added some nice functionality to this site and it’s
about time I found some good uses for my A1000 mobile phone. With these
cool blog stuff above using flickr and WP along with using AvantGo to
download news and info, my A1000 is starting to be useful again and I’m
starting to like it again.
I had some problems with my A1000 after flashing the Firmware, but found
out today I had missed a setting or it had disappeared, so I put it back
in and everything is hunky dory. I also found out I have the
Entertainment Value Pack which allows me to look up movies at the local
cinemas, find local bars and restaurants, watch comedy movies and other
fun stuff.
Let’s see if I can attach a picture to this email I’m sending from my
default email client on my PC and have it appear on my blog.
I’m also going to upgrade my PC. I gave Bec 512Mb from my PC and my AMD
2500+ CPU and I have her AMD 1600+ CPU until I upgrade. I also purchased
another 512Mb for myself the other day. I’m going to have to go AMD
Athlon/64 and a 64bit motherboard as it’s apparently hard to get 32bit
CPUs now. I will also get a new graphics card as the fan on mine is not
working and it’s a very old card anyway [nVidia Ti 4200]. Might get a
mobo with PCIe if I can afford it. Along with more RAM and a new case. I
want to turn this 1600+ AMD PC with 512Mb RAM into the server with 3
HDDs and the PCI TV card and also use it to watch TV and movies in the
lounge.
November 2nd, 2005 at 10:56 pm - Edit
Hmm.. that was not as nice as I had hoped.
It doesn’t sanitise apostrophes nor round brackets, so when it adds the entry .. MySQL has a whinge.
Had to manually escape apostrophes after changing quotes to apostrophes and change round brackets to square ones to get it to work.
The image had to be left out as well since it tries to insert Content=”Multipart” or whatever and the SQL syntax hates quotes in the content so that borked it too.
Might stick with the Flickr one for emailling in fotos and blog entries and just be careful with this until I get time to update the WP email blog script.
I wonder how others cope…
April 9th, 2006 at 2:33 pm - Edit
Hi Jay. Couldn’t find an email address for you so thought I’d try your website (Dont even know how I remembered /guessed the address. Mate hope youre doing OK. Drop us a line sometime. Mike the Mouse Oakley