{"id":44649,"date":"2019-07-19T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=44649"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:00:31","slug":"how-to-blog-over-email-with-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/how-to-blog-over-email-with-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Blog over Email with WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#blog-over-email\">Setup WordPress to blog over email<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to blog quickly but don\u2019t have time to log into your Dashboard and create a Post? A good solution for you is to <strong>blog over email<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have guest contributors? You can give them a secret email address for submitting Posts to your site. Set the category you want the Posts to show up in and you don\u2019t even need to give them Dashboard access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With WordPress, this ability is built right in. But, the setup can be a little tricky.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow along and we\u2019ll take the guesswork out of setting up WordPress to allow blogging over email. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-warning\">Note: You will need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/how-to-create-an-email-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">create an email account<\/a> and save your <a href=\"\/support\/email\/view-email-settings\/\">incoming email settings<\/a> before following this guide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"blog-over-email\">Blog Over Email Setup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard\/\">Log into your WordPress Dashboard<\/a>.<\/li><li>Click <strong>Settings<\/strong> then <strong>Writing<\/strong> in the navigation menu.<\/li><li>Under the <em>Post via email<\/em> section, fill in your incoming email settings. Below is an example of what they will look like:<br>\n<p class=\"alert alert-danger\" role=\"alert\">Be sure to use your own incoming email settings.<\/p><br><table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped\"> <tbody> <tr> <th>Setting<\/th> <th>Example<\/th> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Mail Server<\/td> <td>mail.example.com<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Port<\/td> <td>995<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Login Name<\/td> <td>IsHqrETslc@example.com<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Password<\/td> <td>We highly recommend using a <a href=\"\/support\/security\/password-strength\/\">strong password<\/a> when you create the email account.<\/td> <\/tr> <tr> <td>Default Mail Category<\/td> <td>Uncategorized<\/td> <\/tr> <\/tbody> <\/table> <\/li><li>Click the <strong>Save Changes<\/strong> button to complete the setup.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you know how to setup WordPress to blog over email. You can begin blogging without logging into the Dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info\">A couple of benefits of being an InMotion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/wordpress-hosting\">WordPress Hosting<\/a> customer is that we can migrate over your existing website or easily get you set up with a site that has WordPress already installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article Setup WordPress to blog over email Want to blog quickly but don\u2019t have time to log into your Dashboard and create a Post? A good solution for you is to blog over email.&nbsp; Do you have guest contributors? 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