Posterpress

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 Wordpress could be tweaked to work as (much as) Posterous.

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.

Posterous features

A short list of Posteorus features that I find useful and would need in Posterpress.

Post by mail

Bookmarklet for post by web

Tags

Autopost to

Twitter (with short url and hashtags for tags)

Identica (with short url hashtags for tags)

Facebook

Markdown

Google Analytics

Personal needs

Following the closure of Posterous and the changes in my personal media landscape, here are a list of features I want in Wordpress * Post to Mastodon * Post to Diaspora*

Wordpress features and plugins

So Wordpress support tags already and has a bookmarklet for a quick posting from any webpage: http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This

So for the other features, here's a list of wordpress plugins that might help or do the job.

Markdown

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

Post by mail

http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_your_blog_using_email ← default wordpress feature.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/ ← has more features and works similarly to what Posterous does. It's also possible to comment your own posts by mail.

Autopost

Facebook

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/wp-to-twitter

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

And once you've configured it all, all you need to do is import what you had in your posterous and save it in your wordpress.
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)