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1. #Postie wordpress how to#
2. #Postie wordpress install#
3. #Postie wordpress full#
4. #Postie wordpress password#

There are also settings you can configure for how Postie handles images under the Image tab in your Postie settings in your WordPress dashboard. Here's our results from that emailed image post: If you do not want to include a caption with your image, just use: In this email I've also added an attachment and I'm using this to input the image with a caption into my post: Notice I'm once again sending to my special email address, setting my Category and Title in the Subject line of the email and I'm stopping the post processing with :end. You can even post images via email using Postie: Now, let's take a look at the results on our WordPress site:

I don't want that signature to be included in my post so I type this after my post text to stop Postie before the signature: By default my emails send out with a signature (you also see this with many cell phones). Postie Test is our Category followed by a colon (:) and the title for the new Post (Hello from Postie!).

#Postie wordpress full#

We'll cover a few basic things here for Postie usage, but for full details on customizing your emailed posts, please see the Postie notes page here: If you need to send from a different address, you will need to add that address to the "Authorized Addresses" in the User area of your Postie settings. It's easiest to send the message from your WordPress admin email address. Now that we have Postie installed and configured, let's test it out by sending an email to our special email address. The other tabs within Postie will allow you to customize Postie to your liking but are not required. Once you receive the Result Yes message you know your mail server settings are correct for Postie. Next, click the Test Config button to test our mailserver configuration settings.

#Postie wordpress password#

Mail Password: The password for this email addressĬheck for mail every: Tell Postie how often to check for email at that addressĭelete email after posting: It's best to select Yes so that the Inbox for that email address doesn't fill up over time. , please choose a different email address for your setup). Mail Userid: Full email address (for our example we are using Postie Time Correction: If you have adjusted your WordPress Settings to reflect a UTC time offset, you will want to choose the same offset here for Postie.

#Postie wordpress how to#

Our article Searching for and Installing WordPress Plugins provides step-by-step instructions for installing a WordPress plugin.

#Postie wordpress install#

Next, let's search for and install the Postie plugin in WordPress.

Type of email address. Please see our article on how to create an email account for more information on how to create an email account in cPanel. This email address is being protected from spambots. For example, for this article we'll create an email from some randomly generated characters instead of a traditional For that reason, it's also important to create a unique email address that others would not easily guess. Keep in mind that this email address should only be used for sending posts to since any email sent to the email address will become a post on your WordPress site. The first step when using Postie is to create an email address to be used solely for posts. With Postie, you can control how often WordPress checks for new email posts and even customize your categories from your post.

While WordPress does have some built-in functionality to post via email, the Postie plugin makes this process much easier and adds functionality for adding images to your email posts as well.