Blogging with email

When I first started experimenting with WordPress back in the 00’s, updating websites was really hard! If you wanted to make a change, you had to call your graphic designer and spend a lot of money to change a comma to a period. I first discovered blogging via email in Blogger and then discovered you could do it on WordPress. Each blog has a secret address; whatever you send to that address will appear on your blog. The subject becomes the title, the body becomes the body and if you attach an image it will be formatted as the featured image. When you consider that you can also autopost to Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon, etc. from your blog this feature becomes even more powerful.

Even the most inept business owner knows how to send an email to a specific address — this feature allows anyone to update their website any time they want! Check it out…

Do yourself and your readers a favor

Turn on all the sharing buttons on your blog — including reblog — and make it easier for people to promote your work! In case you haven’t been there for a while, there are new options like AddToAny and Mastodon…

Start a Blog at WordPress.com.

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