{"id":867,"date":"2008-07-03T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=867"},"modified":"2008-07-03T23:09:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T21:09:21","slug":"thoughts-on-blog-by-email-and-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/thoughts-on-blog-by-email-and-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Blog By Email and WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blog-by-email.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"blog-by-email\" width=\"193\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-868\" \/>Way back in 2005 someone said &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2005\/11\/comand-line-via-email\/\">Email is the universal API<\/a>&quot;. This is what came to my mind when I found out and tried <a href=\"http:\/\/ozh.posterous.com\/\">Posterous<\/a>, a blog-by-email service. I think this service has a lot of potential for casual bloggers, and already has a few rather cool features regarding media embedding.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging by email has always been a core feature of WordPress (or at least I think so, been a user since 1.01) but it has never evolved. You can&#39;t assign categories, you can&#39;t tag it, you can&#39;t embed images or any other kind of attachments. You can&#39;t do anything but raw text, which is sort of lame.<\/p>\n<p>I think there are definitely a few features the WordPress folks should steal and improve from Posterous. WordPress has a nice gallery feature, right? Interface it with blog by email. WordPress knows podcast: make things so that when you email an MP3 it&#39;s added as a streamlined or downloadable audio track. Basically, WordPress does anything, anything should be doable via email.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful blog-by-email feature would be great for WordPress (and a killer thing to add to wordpress.com too). I&#39;m not always near a web browser with a (non firewalled) internet connection, but I almost always have an email client in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts, readers? Did you ever, or would you, use a blog by email feature ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2005 someone said &quot;Email is the universal API&quot;. This is what came to my mind when I found out and tried Posterous, a blog-by-email service. I think this service has a lot of potential for casual bloggers, and already has a few rather cool features regarding media embedding. Blogging by email has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[172,191,316,245],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-email","tag-ideas","tag-posterous","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}