Category: blogging

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Testing Postie plugin for WordPress

I’m currently, testing Postie plugin for WordPress. It allows the posting of blog posts by email. It used to be a builtin WordPress feature, but has been deprecated. I’m also including images to see...

Comment Posting Now Working! 0

Comment Posting Now Working!

I stopped allowing commenting on my blog about a year ago when I found that I had over 7 thousand spam comments. I didn’t know how to stop the spam until recently I’ve added...

Spam on WordPress 0

Spam on WordPress

When I moved my blog to WordPress I read some best practices that said I should not require users to register to in order to post comments, claiming that I didn’t need to worry...

A Blog About Blogging 0

A Blog About Blogging

I was having lunch with friends the other day at Fudrucker’s and decided to order a burger, while highlighting that I’m trying to do a survey of the best hamburgers in Riyadh (that I...

Running Cron to Blog by Email 0

Running Cron to Blog by Email

I now have blog-by-email fully working in order run the update script automatically. Every time I send a new blog by email, the script “wp-mail.php” needs to be run to update the blog with...

Testing Blog by Email with Images 0

Testing Blog by Email with Images

— Apparently the blog-by-email feature doesn’t support HTML emails, nor embedded images. I noticed that attachements are uploaded to the the ‘uploads’ directory.

Deepest Sender Firefox Extension 0

Deepest Sender Firefox Extension

I’m posting this entry from the Firefox Extension “Deepest Sender “. I’m trying to figure out the easiest way to post into WordPress, now that I’ve moved away from Blogger, which was very convenient...