First post from the Blackberry

One of the things that most intrigued me about Wordpress was the multitude of methods for posting. In particular, I liked the idea of posting to the blog via email from my Blackberry, thereby enabling me to “report” from the road.

photo credit: Dushaun

While Wordpress has a native capacity for this, like most functions, there are available plugins that enhance the built-in capability.

I chose to go with Postie. In part for the enhanced ability for media uploads, but also because it automates the checking of the email account. This is very helpful for anyone unfamiliar with setting up “cron” tasks. (If cron is greek to you, trust me… Get postie)

While I had an issue or two, set up was pretty simple. My primary problem consisted of only one category showing up for email post default. This was frustrating, but the culprit was narrowed down to the category being empty (created solely for blackberry posts, *shrug*)

In all, I highly recommend this plugin for anyone who doesn’t want to be stuck behind the computer while blogging…

Postie can be found at:

http://blog.robfelty.com/plugins/postie/