Feature update
Apologies to the one or two of you using RSS to follow & may have had about 5 random posts pop up – I’ve been playing!
Short version: Though there’s nothing there yet, the “moblog” tab at the top of the page (and the moblog category link in the sidebar) will bring up photos I’ll be uploading from my phone. If I see an OAP walk into a lampost, a chav hit by a car, or a vaguely phallic cloud formation… it now has a place.
Long version: After much dicking around, I’ve finally got mobile blogging via the Postie plug-in. I don’t really plan to sit on trains tapping away, furiously composing posts in T9, but thought a photo stream would be cute! Moblog.net wanted to charge £5/mo or £25/yr to use my own URL and, frankly, that can go to hell.
WordPress’s own “post by email” script refused to work – possibly because I couldn’t specify SSL – and even Postie misbehaved initially, but with a lot of Googling and a few “D’oh!” moments passed, it’s up and running! Still waiting for an excuse to see if the cron job throws up any issues, but if so that can be circumvented.
Add in a category filter and a conditional tag, so as not to break up the rest of the blog, and it now has its very own tab! I’m quite pleased.
(edit: Working, and populated!)
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I can’t check my own wordpress to investigate right now, but uh, update by email? Is that standard? That would be awesome and most importantly, free, as my BlackBerry has unlimited e-mail but charges $5/5MB for data and I fear is costing the earth every time I use wordpress…
Aye – on Dashboard, click Settings, then Writing, it’s the second category up from the bottom of the page. The afore-mentioned Postie plug-in is better featured, though, and I believe the basic WP doesn’t upload images… couldn’t get it working to test though!
Postie takes a bit of hacking to get working with later builds of WordPress, but I could likely talk you through it if you needed (lots of Googling should reveal most of the fixes).
I have unlimited web access, but didn’t fancy tapping away with my thumbs for proper posts & image uploads are tricky. Emailing camera phone photos into a dedicated stream seemed a really neat balance
First post went up this morning.