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Posterpress
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.
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 and hashtags for tags)
- Facebook
- Markdown
- Google Analytics
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
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/network-publisher/does it all through 3rd party called LinksAlpha.com. Since the whole point of moving from Posterous to a self hosted Wordpress is trying to avoid third parties… not be using it. This option is rejected.- 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/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
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)