Email your posts
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For me, the key to posting regularly is to make the process as convenient as possible, and the best approach is to do this by email. That means I can compose my posts on just about any device, whether or not I have an internet connection.
The Postie plugin ( postieplugin. com) requires a little effort to set up but, once this is done, creating a post is as simple as writing an email, attaching a photo and hitting Send. Start by setting up an email address you’ll send your posts to – Postie recommends Gmail and provides specific instructions – but make sure you don’t use this email address for anything else. I prefer to create an address using random characters so there’s no chance of it being guessed.
I recommend setting up Postie to treat emails as if they were written in plain text rather than HTML, as it’s extremely unlikely your mail client uses the same styles as your website. By using plain text, your default styles will be applied. You can tell Postie to use an attached photo as the post’s featured image, and you can also use a shortcode to tell it where to embed any image. For example, Postie will replace #img1# with the first attached photo, #img2# would use the second and so on.
I also tell Postie to set each post to draft status rather than publishing immediately. This is so I can give each one a quick check before making it live – especially important if I have it set to be automatically