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January 16, 2009

Great Tutorial on How to Autopost to Wordpress by Email using Posterous (esdev.net)

This is seriously easy. It could not be simpler. Really.

Thanks to ES Developed for a fantastic step-by-step tutorial on how to get started using Posterous with your Wordpress blog.

See the full tutorial here

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Posted by Garry Tan 

Comments (17)

Jan 19, 2009
sean 808080 said...
I use this all the time. One of the many things to love about posterous!
Jan 19, 2009
Stefan Grothkopp said...
I just created this bookmarklet thats lets you post to posterous by using gmail:
http://stefan.grothkopp.com/posterous-to-gmail-bookmarklet

I just wanted to let you know :)

Jan 21, 2009
thepete said...
any chance video is embedded on WP now?
Jan 21, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Video you post to posterous is not yet embedded into WP, but we are adding support for that soon
Jan 21, 2009
thepete said...
Ah, cool--great to know. Thanks! Please mention it in your Posterous blog when you do!
Feb 10, 2009
Tobias said...
The cool thing about posterous is that images are made to galleries and PDFs made to embedded Flashthings.
What happens, with this stuff on the WP-side?
Does someone have a demo-Post that shows how a posterous post with richmedia looks in WP?
Feb 10, 2009
Tobias said...
BTW: Dont you want to make your service a (paid) plugin for wordpress? Or a Service that is specialized with wordpress?
I love the idea of posterous but cannot move away from wordpress since it gives me much more flexibility with plugins and templates.
Feb 10, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Tobias: when you autopost to WP, you don't get an image gallery but all the images are placed inline. Since WP limits what flash and javascript we can post, we leave the flash out and provide download links to audio and video items.

We are focussing on making Posterous the best web publishing platform out there. While wordpress does have great plugins and templates, it's not something most people can figure out and use. I can't ever imagine my mom creating a wordpress site. I'm tech savvy, and even I shudder at having to use Wordpress to publish online.

We did autopost so that existing WP users can benefit from Posterous without having to switch over completely, but our real goal is to bring web publishing to the billion people out there who know and understand email. Publishing online should be easy, fun, and use the tools you already know; not hard work.
Feb 10, 2009
thepete said...
Sachin, i'm not sure what you mean since Utterli.com autoposts Flash video and audio to self-hosted WP sites just fine. Plus I thought that functionality was something you guys were going after. Maybe I misunderstood.
Feb 10, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@thepete: yes it's the self hosted ones that allow flash, not the ones on wordpress.com. We will be adding support for adding our flash players in autopost eventually.
Jul 18, 2009
Janet said...
@Sachin I really hope to see the Flashplayer support. That's cause I just posted 34 images via Posterous to my self-hosted WP blog and wow, that's a whole long list of inline images. :P
Aug 13, 2009
Darrin Pilkington said...
The gallery post in WP would be great. Has there been any further progress on this?
Sep 13, 2009
Amar said...
Hello. Is it possible to chose under which category posterous posts will be published? Thanks
Sep 13, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
yes you can control categories. Please see
http://blog.posterous.com/control-which-blogs-you-autopo

or email help@posterous.com

Sep 25, 2009
Charles Darling said...
How do you avoid the duplicate content created when I autopost to my blog and the same email is posted to my posterous blog?
Sep 25, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Easy solution! Just get rid of your other blog!!

Sent from my iPhone

Sep 26, 2009
Charles Darling said...
Not exactly a viable solution. I consider Posterous a 'tool' to facilitate posting to my regular blog. I guess I will have to make my posterous blog private, which is a shame.

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