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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 +
-  * 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+
  
-==== Wordpress features and plugins ====+=== PosterPress features === 
 +Following the closure of Posterous and the changes in my personal media landscape, here are a list of features I want in WordPress 
 +  * Auto-post to Mastodon 
 +  * Auto-post to Diaspora 
 +  * Plays well with large social networks such as Facebook and Twitter 
 +  * Allows visitor to subscribe to email updates 
 +  * Supports Webmention
  
-So Wordpress support tags already and has a bookmarklet for a quick posting from any webpage: http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This +==== Active WordPress plugins ====
  
-So for the other features, here's a list of wordpress plugins that might help or do the job.+=== Mastodon === 
 +  * https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ exposes a WordPress blog to the Fediverse and Mastodon network using the ActivityPub protocol. No need to auto-post. Simple.
  
 +=== Diaspora* ===
 +  * https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-to-diaspora/ Auto-post your WordPress publications directly to your Diaspora account. You can choose to send a summary or to copy the full post.
 +
 +=== Subscribe by email ===
 +  * https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/ Simple plugin that lets visitors subscribe by mail. Has a good number of features while being quite resistant to spam. Sends an email for every post you write.
 +
 +=== Webmentions ===
 +  * https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention/ Does just that. Makes WordPress support Webmentions.
 +
 +=== OpenGraph ===
 +  * https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/ injects the right meta tags in your posts so that your publications behave correctly with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Probably others too as these tend to become "standards"
 +
 +==== Old WordPress plugins ==== 
 === Markdown === === 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
  
 === Post by mail === === Post by mail ===
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 === Autopost === === 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. +  * **Facebook** 
-  * **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/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.     * https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbooker/ <- Easy to set up but uses an app controlled by someone else.
   * **Twitter**   * **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.+    * 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**   * **Identica**
     * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools-statusnet/ needs Twitter tools to work.      * 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/identica-tools/ Old plugin... not much info
     * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordidentica/ Old one too     * http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordidentica/ Old one too
- +=== Shorturls === 
-==== Importer ==== +  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)
-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)
  
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