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--- projects:posterpress [2011/01/20 18:18] – 85.27.14.168
+++ projects:posterpress [2020/05/10 18:47] – [Posterous features] Julien Deswaef
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-===== Posterpress =====
+===== PosterPress =====
-[[http://posterous.com|Posterous]] is a great platform for publishing (and autoposting). The main inconvenient is that it's not free software and there is no way to host it yourself (though you can use a custom domain). So the goal here is to see how [[http://wordpress.org|Wordpress]] could be tweaked to work as (much as) Posterous.
+[[http://posterous.com|Posterous]] was a great platform for publishing (and auto-cross-posting). The main inconvenient is that it's not free software and there is no way to host it yourself (though you can use a custom domain). So the goal here is to see how [[http://wordpress.org|Wordpress]] could be tweaked to work as (much as) Posterous.
-==== Posterous features ====
+Since Posterous has passed away, this page in turn keeps track of the auto-cross-posting plugin that I use on my own Wordpress instance.
-A short list of Posteorus features that I find useful and would need in Posterpress.
-  * Post by mail
+=== PosterPress features ===
-  * Bookmarklet for post by web
+Following the closure of Posterous and the changes in my personal media landscape, here are a list of features I want in WordPress
-  * Tags
+  * Auto-post to Mastodon
-  * Autopost to
+  * Auto-post to Diaspora
-    * Twitter (with short url and hashtags for tags)
+  * Plays well with large social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
-    * Identica (with short url and hashtags for tags)
+  * Allows visitor to subscribe to email updates
-    * Facebook
+  * Supports Webmention
-  * Markdown
-  * Google Analytics
 ==== Wordpress features and plugins ====
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 === Markdown ===
-  * http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ requires to deactivate the wordpress default editor.
+  * http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ Requires to deactivate the wordpress default editor. It might not be so usefull anymore since Postie has also some special "function tags"
 === Google analytics ===
-http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/ <- A lot more features than what posterous proposes
+  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/ <- A lot more features than what posterous proposes
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 === Autopost ===
-  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/network-publisher/ does it all through 3rd party called LinksAlpha.com. (Actually, it might not be necessary to use that plugin anymore. I used it without it. Couldn't make the API key work.) So [[http://LinksAlpha.com|LinksAlpha]] checks your wordpress rss feeds every half hour and autoposts any new item to your social media of choice. And there is an impresive list of supported websites. The site works as expected but with some annoying things for me: Twitter, Identica and Facebook are free of charge but if you want to publish on Goole Buzz for example, there is a fee (so one might ask: how long will they keep it all free?). Second, it doesn't do an instant autopost. It'll do it when it will fetch your Rss (might be solved with pubhubsubblabla, haven't tried it), and last, it's third party again. The whole point of moving from Posterous to a self hosted Wordpress is trying to avoid third parties...  But appart from those, it's really easy to set up and avoids the pain of installing lots of different plugins to achieve something similar.
   * **Faceboo**k
     * https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpbook/ <- prefered as you control your FB application. But requires to get FB Dev API key.
     * https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbooker/ <- Easy to set up but uses an app controlled by someone else.
   * **Twitter**
-    * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/
+    * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter
-    * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter <- Choose this one so I coud make it work with identica. Easy install anyway. Just a bit tricky on the twitter side because an app registration is needed.
+    * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/ <- I choose this one so I coud make it work with identica. Easy install anyway. Just a bit tricky on the twitter side because an app registration is needed.
   * **Identica**
     * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools-statusnet/ needs Twitter tools to work.
     * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/identica-tools/ Old plugin... not much info
     * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordidentica/ Old one too
+=== Shorturls ===
+  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-friendly-links/ <- Get a nice short url for each posts.  Works with Twitter-tools (but needu to be activated in the settings)
 ==== Importer ====
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 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posterous-importer/
+==== Extras ====
+Just some stuff not directly related to a posterous conversion.
+  * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configurable-tag-cloud-widget/ <- an nice little tool to create a Tags display widget with a lot of options. (but needed to hack the code so it would display correctly in wp3.1)