Post by Email with WordPress
Post by Email with WordPress
Postie works well with GoDaddy hosting, but you are required to use GoDaddy mail servers (rather than something like Gmail). Create a new email address through the Cpanel functions in GoDaddy. After the email is created go to the Configure…
Postie works well with Gmail (and Google apps for business), however, there are a few things that can get in the way. First make sure your hosting company allows access to external mail servers. GoDaddy notably does not allow this.…
WebP is a new image format being promoted by Google. By default WordPress (and therefor Postie) doesn’t support WebP images attached to emails. However, it is quite easy to add support. First add WebP support to WordPress by installing the wp-webp plugin.…
This filter is called just before Postie saves the post. At the point the filter is called a placeholder post has been created, but it doesn’t have any content. All the attachments have been uploaded and associated with this post. Parameters: $post…
Some users have reported that Postie stops checking mail when WP Super Cache is installed. You can fix this by adding “wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php” to W3TC “Never cache the following pages” on the “Page Cache Settings tab”
Postie relies on the built-in WordPress Cron process to fetch emails and turn them into posts. However, WordPress requires that there be traffic to your site in order to run the Cron process. The first check you must do to…
As of version 1.5.5 you can click the “Run Postie (Debug)” button to have Postie check for emails and report debugging information to the screen. To always log debug info to a log file you can still do the following:…