A while back, I set things up so I could publish entries on FIGJAM while mobile, from my phone. A publish-by-email function is built in to WP, but it requires you to force the blog software to check an email address you designate manually, set up an automated mail check through your web host, or write something into the site coding to make it do so. Since visiting the page that activates the email task glitched out on my BB browser, I wrote a UNIX cron job to look for email periodically so the posts I wrote while mobile would not have to wait until I got home to be published, utterly defeating the purpose of posting moble blog entries in the first place.
Problem was, I rarely wrote mobile posts because usually if I wanted to do something “on the road”, it needed to go beyond the capability of the post-by-email function. Consequently, when a few months later my webhost somehow screwed up my cron job causing it to send me error messages every few minutes, I didn’t bother to investigate why and simply deleted the automated tasks.
While window-shopping in the BlackBerry store today, though, I discovered this: WordPress for BlackBerry. It lets me sign right into my WP dashboard and write directly into my post box (or edit other pages, approve comments, and so on). AND, I can actually add html and the like for formatting, something the email-posts could never do.
In fact, this entire post was written on my BlackBerry (and it better work and not embarass me!)
Most likely I’m now going to forget that I have it and will never remember to write another entry this way… but I hope sharing this info might help someone else out.
