Having used up most of my spare time this week attempting to get WordPress to deal with my moblogging requirements in readiness for the Coast to Coast walk, I thought a backup plan would be a jolly good idea.
I’ve looked at Flickr before for moblogging, but still hankered after getting WordPress to do it all.
Well, with time running out it may be Flickr that comes on its white charger to save the day. Not given up on WordPress for moblogging… yet.
The Wordpress codex says that email attachments will be displayed inline
when making a post by email.
However, this has proved not to be the case and if an image is attached =
to
an email and posted to the blog all that appears is numerical code =
instead
of the image. Another annoying issue is that an equals sign is being
inserted, I suspected after a given number of characters, which breaks =
up
the lines and looks awful.
I will be looking at other methods of posting images in a Wordpress blog =
as
part of an article. One method that does work is using a Flickr account. =
To
do this, email the image to your Flickr account and then login and using =
the
Blog This facility you will find the post and image are inserted just =
fine.
This is all very well, but I’m wanting to use a mobile phone to email
pictures with posts to my blog when doing the Coast to Coast Walk this
summer, and although I can use the web browser on my phone it’ll be much
more awkward.
BTW, this post is being sent from my desktop PC email client to test =
whether
Wordpress will process the post properly this way - although I’m not to
hopeful!=20
Originally uploaded by flickrkw
Sneaking in at the eleventh hour so to speak. I couldn’t let 2007 pass without doing one more blog post seeing as my posting has been non-existent for the last 6 months!
I’m not making any excuses… Like how life can be so busy, blah, blah, blah.
Instead, here’s a checklist for some posts I’d like to write about:
Social networks
Expectations concerning the web
Macmini/HDTV mashup
Getting It
Digital cameras
Coast to Coast walk
I have another checklist for trying out some web techie toys in the new year, but that remains a secret for 2 reasons. One, I don’t want to disappoint if I don’t find the time and 2 I haven’t made a full list yet. :)
Mind you, if this post finds its way from my mobile to my blog then moblogging will be off the list.
Happy New Year!
