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zodiac1978 on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

zodiac1978 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:38:54 +0000

Seems to be intentional:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/post-format-type-switching-from-standard-to-image?replies=10#post-1079434

Please add me to the people who don't like this "feature". You should'nt decide the post format for me.

Best Regards
Torsten

kardotim on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

kardotim — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:09:43 +0000

I've just reported this issue to our developers and we're looking into it. We'll keep you informed!

Thank you for the report.

zodiac1978 on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

zodiac1978 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:44:43 +0000

Okay, now I can reproduce the problem: If you just send an image attached to the email and no text, the post format is changed to "image". That is the problem (or the feature :)

As I can't change the post format with any shortcode, how do I prevent this "feature"?

Best regards
Torsten

zodiac1978 on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

zodiac1978 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:30:17 +0000

I can't reproduce the problem, too. I have asked the user to test again and will report here the result. Thanks for testing! :)

Best regards
Torsten

kardotim on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

kardotim — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:15:51 +0000

I can't seem to reproduce their problem. As far as I can see they don't have any posts with the 'Image' post format. Could you ask them to test once more and leave the post as it is?

zodiac1978 on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

zodiac1978 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:52:15 +0000

Nope. This is correct on the default.

(First report here: http://de.forums.wordpress.com/topic/artikelformatvorlage)

Any other ideas?

Best regards
Torsten

zodiac1978 on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

zodiac1978 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:47:15 +0000

Ooops! I missed this setting. Thanks for the hint! :)

Best regards
Torsten

kardotim on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

kardotim — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:42:09 +0000

Your default post format is probably set to 'Image'. Go to this page and select a different Default Post Format from the dropdown menu: https://BLOGNAME.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-writing.php

Replace 'BLOGNAME' with your blog name.

zodiac1978 on "Theme Skeptical is using Post Format "Image" if you "blog by email""

zodiac1978 — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:31:56 +0000

"Blog by email" seems to have a big issue (at least with Theme Skeptical). If you send an email to the blog it is using the Post Format "Image" and not standard.

thesacredpath on "Post by email not working"

thesacredpath — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:12:04 +0000

It could be that mailchimp is not supported for post by email.

You need to contact staff directly at http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ .

csillamvilag on "Post by email not working"

csillamvilag — Mon, 09 May 2011 10:45:31 +0000

I tried sending an email to my secret WP posting email, and a post was created and published automatically. Hurrah!

But when I sent an email to the same address from MailChimp (i'd like to create a blog of my newsletters), nothing happened - no posts created, none published....

Not sure what the problem is...I tried the exact same thing on Blogger and it works perfectly, but for some reason not on WordPress....and I can't figure out why!

experi3nc3 on "Email post to blog"

experi3nc3 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:47:31 +0000

Thanks to all who pointed to Posterous!!

Cheers, Alex.

vivianpaige on "Email post to blog"

vivianpaige — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:33:28 +0000

And that won't work here. Notice all the references to wordpress.ORG? This is wordpress.COM http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

grafgone on "Email post to blog"

grafgone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:07:45 +0000

I found this...

http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email

Post to your blog using email
Contents
[hide]

* 1 Setting Up Post via E-mail
o 1.1 Step 1 - Create an e-mail account
o 1.2 Step 2 - Configure WordPress to access your new account
o 1.3 Step 3 - Publish Your E-mail Posts
+ 1.3.1 Manual Browser Activation
+ 1.3.2 Automated Browser Activation
+ 1.3.3 WP-Cron Plugin Activation
+ 1.3.4 Cron Job Activation
+ 1.3.5 Procmail Activation
+ 1.3.6 .qmail Activation
* 2 Email Format
* 3 Testing
* 4 Troubleshooting
* 5 Extensions and Add-ons
o 5.1 Enhanced Functionality Hack
o 5.2 Hack E-mail Format

WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. To enable this functionality, you need to:

1. Create a dedicated e-mail account to be used solely for posting to your blog,
2. Configure WordPress to access that account, and
3. Configure WordPress to publish messages from the e-mail account

You can blog by e-mail using most standard e-mail software programs or a Weblog Client -- a program specifically designed to send posts via email.
Setting Up Post via E-mail
Step 1 - Create an e-mail account

1. Log in to WordPress with the administration login you use to administer your WordPress blog.
2. Go to Options > Writing.
3. Read the instructions under Post via e-mail at the bottom of the page. At the end of these instructions, WordPress will suggest three random strings of numbers you may want to use for the login name of the new e-mail account you'll create.
4. Create a new e-mail account on your web host's mail server or a separate e-mail server, using one of the suggested numeric strings (or your own secret word) for the username (also called a "login name"). A mail server receives e-mails on your behalf and stores them for retrieval. Do not use public, free e-mail servers like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc., for this account.
Note: It is strongly recommended that you use a "secret" address - that is, an e-mail account name that is very difficult to guess and known only to you, such as those suggested by WordPress. Any e-mail sent to this address will automatically be posted to your blog. Be aware, however, that some e-mail servers do not allow numbers-only e-mail accounts or....

http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_by_Email

justjennifer on "Email post to blog"

justjennifer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:56:42 +0000

And thank you Nick for pointing us to Posterous!

thesacredpath on "Email post to blog"

thesacredpath — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:54:55 +0000

@ a4agarwal

Thanks so much for posting the answer here. I know there are a lot of people who are going to be very happy about this.

a4agarwal on "Email post to blog"

a4agarwal — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:46:33 +0000

Hi. I'm Sachin, one of the founders of Posterous. yes, you can use posterous to post to wordpress, both hosted and self hosted. Please email [email redacted] if you have any questions.

justjennifer on "Email post to blog"

justjennifer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:45:28 +0000

I just emailed them. Hope to have a reply when I wake up tomorrow. Or maybe they'll stop by and answer here. Cheers!

nickmomrik on "Email post to blog"

nickmomrik — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:43:35 +0000

There does seem to be a new service at http://posterous.com/ that uses email and then XML-RPC to post.

flashkube on "Email post to blog"

flashkube — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:40:54 +0000

Does WP.com maintain a list of all services that use their API? If not, is there another site that might maintain such a list?

raincoaster on "Email post to blog"

raincoaster — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:54:33 +0000

None of which I'm aware.

flashkube on "Email post to blog"

flashkube — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:03:38 +0000

I realize there is no built-in mechanism to post via email. But...

Is there a service out there that will do this? There is obviously an API because I can post via flickr. In fact I can even post via email to flickr and they will automatically post that to my blog (but this only works if I'm posting an image).

I currently use twittermail.com to twitter via email. Is there any similar service that will allow me to blog via email to WP.com?

Thanks in advance!