xuv's notebook

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

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 and hashtags for tags)
  • Facebook
• Markdown

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.

• http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ requires to deactivate the wordpress default editor.

• 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.

• 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 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.
• Facebook
  • https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpbook/ ← prefered as you control your FB application. But requieres 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 ←
• 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

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/