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I recently found myself really wishing that there was a scheduled posting feature on DW -- for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
artyuletide, everything needed to post on Jan 1, and I wanted it to be spaced out. What I ended up doing was having the community be moderated, and queue up a bunch of posts in the moderation queue, and then occasionally release a few into the wild using the mod approval system. However, that still meant checking in every so often.
BUT, there actually is another way.bluewinged_songbird mentioned using post-by-email as a way to schedule things. I just checked, and it's pretty easy to set up.
To set up post-by-email, you go to Mobile Post settings: https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost (or Organize -> Manage Account -> Mobile).
Here, you first enter the email that you will be posting from. Then you pick a "PIN". Given that it accepts letters and numbers and can be anything 4 or more characters long, it's more like a password than a pin. Anyway, after you select your pin, you're all set up to post via email!
You open up your email, and in the to: field, type in your username+PIN@post.dreamwidth.org . (Make sure to save it to your contacts, so that you don't have to remember it in the future. If, for some reason, you don't want your PIN in there, you can also just send to username@post.dreamwidth.org, and put +PIN in your email subject or body text)
Here is a sample email, assuming that my PIN is the wonderfully brilliant "1234":
A few things about posting by email:
- It accepts HTML
- Any image you attach gets automatically uploaded and slapped onto the end of your post in a simple image tag with no resizing, so... take it as you will
- add: there's a linebreak every 70-80 characters, because they take the text-only version of your email, which is automatically sent with those line breaks. :/
- You can set stuff like post security and tags and other stuff by putting it at the top of your email:
Cool. So how does Post By Email help with scheduling posts?
Because there's a variety of email add-on options that let you schedule your emails. For example, Right Inbox lets you schedule 10 emails per month for free. So you can create an email post, and schedule it to post at the date and time of your choice. :D!!
I recently found myself really wishing that there was a scheduled posting feature on DW -- for
artyuletide, everything needed to post on Jan 1, and I wanted it to be spaced out. What I ended up doing was having the community be moderated, and queue up a bunch of posts in the moderation queue, and then occasionally release a few into the wild using the mod approval system. However, that still meant checking in every so often.BUT, there actually is another way.
bluewinged_songbird mentioned using post-by-email as a way to schedule things. I just checked, and it's pretty easy to set up.To set up post-by-email, you go to Mobile Post settings: https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost (or Organize -> Manage Account -> Mobile).
Here, you first enter the email that you will be posting from. Then you pick a "PIN". Given that it accepts letters and numbers and can be anything 4 or more characters long, it's more like a password than a pin. Anyway, after you select your pin, you're all set up to post via email!
You open up your email, and in the to: field, type in your username+PIN@post.dreamwidth.org . (Make sure to save it to your contacts, so that you don't have to remember it in the future. If, for some reason, you don't want your PIN in there, you can also just send to username@post.dreamwidth.org, and put +PIN in your email subject or body text)
Here is a sample email, assuming that my PIN is the wonderfully brilliant "1234":
from: [redacted]@gmail.com
to: potofsoup+1234@post.dreamwidth.org
subject: This is my post title
post-security: private
post-tags: dw how-to
post-mood: fiddling with DW
Well, this is a test post from email! :D
A few things about posting by email:
- It accepts HTML
- Any image you attach gets automatically uploaded and slapped onto the end of your post in a simple image tag with no resizing, so... take it as you will
- add: there's a linebreak every 70-80 characters, because they take the text-only version of your email, which is automatically sent with those line breaks. :/
- You can set stuff like post security and tags and other stuff by putting it at the top of your email:
post-icon (or post-userpic): icon keywords
post-tags: tag1, tag2, tag3
post-mood: mood name
post-music: song name
post-location: name of location
post-comments: "off" or "noemail"
post-security: public, private, access (or friends), or name of access group
Cool. So how does Post By Email help with scheduling posts?
Because there's a variety of email add-on options that let you schedule your emails. For example, Right Inbox lets you schedule 10 emails per month for free. So you can create an email post, and schedule it to post at the date and time of your choice. :D!!
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Date: 2019-01-02 10:07 am (UTC)