When you’re out and about — or just surfing the web — you might see, hear, or experience things you’d love to add to your blog, and WordPress.com makes that easy by offering you a bunch of different ways to blog on the move.
Let’s say you’re at a live event and want to let people know what’s happening as it unfolds. By reaching for your mobile phone, you can grab images (or even record video in some cases), and either put a post together from your mobile’s WordPress.com app, or just email one into your blog via mobile blogging.
That gives you the flexibility of publishing wherever you happen to be at the time, and telling your story as it happens.
“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.” ~ Seneca, a Roman philosopher
You might also find that as you browse the web you come across interesting images, chunks of text you’d like to quote, or videos you’ve watched that might might be interesting to your site visitors. Of course, you can do this the good old fashioned, manual way, but WordPress also has a little extra feature called PressThis that does all of the donkey work for you with a single click from your web browser and makes publishing a snap.
Even if you prefer to ruminate on or tidy up the things you’ve captured while out on the streets or surfing the web, you can upload your newly minted content as a draft, so that you’ll have it waiting for you when you get back home. It’s like having a multimedia notebook with you, wherever you go.
So while you can think of blogging on the run as a super-quick way to get publishing, it’s also a great way of capturing information on the fly, whether you suddenly find yourself inspired to write a couple of sentences of your novel, or just want to share a photo of lunch with your friends and family.
Stage One: Blogging from your mobile device
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Check out our Apps page to see the most current applications for your phone and desktop.
If your phone is not one of the above, don’t worry – you can still use m.wordpress.com – a mobile version of your dashboard that lets you easily publish new blog posts, view stats and add new links to your blogroll. Simply point your mobile browser to http://m.wordpress.com to get started!
Post by email is a way of publishing posts on your blog by email. Any email client can be used, allowing you to publish quickly and easily from devices such as cell phones.
Before you can publish by email, you must generate a special email address. This address is unique to you and must be kept secret.
1) Dashboard > My Blogs
2) Locate the blog that you wish to post to and click on Enable.
You now have a special email address. If you want to add the address to your address book, you can download it as a vCard:
Sending Emails
Once you have your Post by Email address, sending an email is simple:
The email subject is used as your post’s title. The body is the post’s contents. A few minutes after receiving your email, you should receive a notification email informing you of the published post’s details.
Please remember to send the email to your secret email address, not to the example given in the image above.
Press This is a bookmarklet, which is a neat word for a little app that runs in your browser and lets you grab text, images and videos from the web and post them to your WordPress.com blog. Use Press This to grab bits of the web from any page and add them to your blog!
To get started with Press This, go to the Tools section of your dashboard and drag the “Press This” link to the bookmarks/favorites area of your web browser. Once you’ve done that, it will look something like this:
After you’ve completed that step, click on the Press This link in your browser when you’re surfing the web and see something you’d like to blog about.
Press This will appear in a pop-up window, with options to post quotes, images or even videos without having to visit your blog. If you have multiple blogs, you will also have a drop-down menu to choose which blog you would like to publish the content in.
Click the picture frame icon to see a selection of images on that page. Select the one you like, and click the HTML tab to edit. For videos, click the filmstrip icon.
What’s Next?
