Posting to Wordpress Blog from Mobile
November 24, 2007 – 3:08 pm
In recent a few days I have been trying to come up with different ways i can post to my MicroBlog using my mobile as i have to go on a trip outside Islamabad and i would have little or no access to a Computer or Internet and i wanted to find a way to post to MicroBlog without any complex stuff
1 ) The easiest way is to setup the Post via e-mail option available in Wordpress Admin Panel under Options >> Writing .you can tell Wordpress a secret email address where you will send your post and Wordpress checks this email address regularly and whenever a new email comes it will Publish its Subject as the Post title and the email content as the Post but
that didn’t suite me because in Pakistan there aren’t isn’t any simple way you can send email straight from mobile’s built in email sending option but instead you have to do it from your email address providers site via the mobile browser so this option was a No !
2 ) Then the second way i thought of was to use Twitter a MicroBlogging Website and Twitter Tools Plugin from Alex King which will let me have some advanced options for e,g i could link my phone number with my Twitter account and setup Alex King’s Twitter Tools so that whenever i send an SMS to Twitter it will get published to my Twitter Profile and the TwitterTools plugin will fetch that message and publish it to my Blog this was the easiest way as i just had to send an SMS but i ran into some problems with TwitterTools for e,g i couldn’t set the Title of the Published Posts the title was a few starting words of the message i posted on Twitter + sometimes the new published messages on my blog created there own category named ” 2 ” and i got scared because TwitterTools isn’t fully compatible to Wordpress 2.3 till now so I didn’t want to mess anything.
3 ) The final way i have found is to use a WPhone plugin with my Wordpress MicroBlog it may be as much of a hassle as sending an email but i think its a bit straight to the point as you are able to do everything from the Mobile Interface of the Wordpress admin panel as not only you can create new Posts but manage older ones and manage users , categories , pages etc and much much more that’s what is really cool about this Plugin.So i have decided to use the WPhone plugin for my MicroBlog , it works by just uploading the WPhone folder into your wp-contents/plugins/ directory and activate the plugin in Plugin’s menu and to use the mobile interface go the Wordpress Login Page and sign in by checking the Use mobile admin interface 
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