Posting by email

Maybe this. You are sending mail to one of you own accounts, and someone or something has to make WP fetch the post and publish it. wp-mail.php is responsible for that.

You can get https://yourblog/wp-mail from your browser to run the fetch/publish operation or if you can set up a cron job, you can schedule an execution of wp-mail that way.

If you are on a hosted server, chances are that you’re not allowed to set up a cron job. In that case you may use Skippys wp-cron plugin. It comes with some other tools, such as wp-cron-mail. It runs nearly on time if you have visitors.

Hmm. Thanks. I was able to get the wp-mail.php to recognize the post.. but it didn’t “post”.. It’s listed in my posts when I click “manage posts” but that’s it.

So the point of all this is to update multiple blogs at once..

Is there a program that could just let me do this? then I wouldn’t need to do the email thing?

Ahhh!
Well the test posts showed up…

Now is there a way to make it update automatically without running the wp-mail.php? Will that plugin do that?

Thank you guys for being patient with me.

Yes the wp-cron from Skippy runs a wp-mail-like script. You can set an update period, and it will publish all pending posts.

It is however triggered when someone reads your blog. It checks to see if the set time span has passed, and if so fetches all mail from your special secret mail account and publishes them.

You might try it out. I did, It worked.

My Swedish headings didn’t though, because the subject field is not sent as UTF8, only the body.

Good luck!

What really sucks is it takes text only. Ya can’t do pics and stuff.
I really need a way to update all my blogs at once with one post…

Sorry I’m such a n00b.

Yes it takes only text. You have some different issues here and I don’t have any out of the box solutions, but a few ideas.
1. You want to have images in your posts
That means they have to be uploaded to some web server directory. Once they are you can insert them with an ′<img` tag into your post. You would have to use an FTP client or the WordPress built in uploader.

2. You want to use an email client.
This probably mean that you want to be able to use any computer or mobile device to post to your blog.
If you only need to do this from computers desktop or laptops, you could use a USB storage and have your normal FTP, mail client and/or browser on that device.
That way you can use FTP to upload your images or go directly to your blog’s admin interface.

3. “I really need a way to update all my blogs at once with one post…“
If I understand this correctly, you want that one post published on more than one blog. This probably means that when you publish on one main blog, the post is replicated to other blogs of yours. I guess this can be done by the secondary blogs subscribing to the main blog’s feeds and publishing what ever new comes in.

Maybe this lengthy guesswork can give you some ideas on what to search for.