Working & WordPress-ing: Tutorials for WordPress Bloggers

How to post by email – continued…

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After many months of inactivity (for this site only, been busy with other sites), I want to continue my experiments with Postie, the app which enables us to post by sending an email to our control panel. I am sending this mini-post from my BB phone … [Continue reading]

How to force WordPress to display your server’s character set

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If after upgrading your MySql server or after upgrading your self-hosted WordPress install to a later version, your WP posts show gibberish characters (see image below), chances are the character set in your MySql install is 'latin1' which is causing … [Continue reading]

Confession of a “Postie” user

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When doing my experimental WP-hosted blogs, it was a delight using the plugin built into WordPress.com which allows me to update my blogs using emails. I found the WP plugin very handy, in fact a necessity, considering that most of the time, I am … [Continue reading]

This is a test message posting with a photo

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Still on the Postie WP plugin: Testing the plugin option where the image is uploaded not in post but as a URL. Forwarded earlier email. Results: 1. The image was successfully uploaded, but the image is displayed on the right panel // If you … [Continue reading]

This is a test message posting with photo

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Installed the Postie WordPress plugin today and experimenting on different options. Below photo is uploaded via email using a Blackberry where the image is sent as an attachment. … [Continue reading]