After years and months has past, I am again looking at my blogging account here at WordPress and this time, I am not going to explain why it took me another long time before I created another post.
Anyway, Gokongwei… I want to share some words about a feature of WordPress.com for blogging: the “Post by email” feature. As the title of the feature implies, if a blogger enable this feature, a blogger can create posts via email. The blogger simply sends an email to an address generated by WordPress for his/her account and it will be automatically posted to his/her webpage. The subject of the email will be used as the title of the post.
To customize and configure the various aspects of the post, one can embed “shortcodes” to specify categories, tags, comments among others. One can even set the delay time before your email will be posted.
Here are some the shortcodes from the WordPress help file:
* [category x,y,z]
* [excerpt]some excerpt[/excerpt]
* [tags x,y,z]
* [delay +1 hour]
* [comments on | off]
* [status publish | pending | draft | private]
* [password secret-password]
* [slug some-url-name]
* [title Your post title]
* [end] – everything after this shortcode is ignored (i.e. signatures)
* – replaces the auto-gallery with a slideshow
* [nogallery] – disables the auto-gallery and displays all images inline
* [more]
* [nextpage]
* [geotag on | off] – override your geotagging privacy defaults to enable or disable the showing of geo information
* [publicize off|yahoo|twitter|facebook] – change Publicize options
* [poll]question and answers[/poll] – insert a Polldaddy poll into your post
Shortcodes can be included anywhere in the body of your email and must be in lowercase.
I found this feature very useful in a situation where you cannot access or login into WordPress.com to create some posts.
