WordPress now supports press by email

I am very happy that finally WordPress now provides what Blogger/Blogspot has always been providing. Press by email. In simple terms, one just has to establish a “secret email” from “My Blogs” page within WordPress Admin. To publish a post, all you have to do is send an email to this address and you are done. Though there may have been a delay on my part to discover this feature. I saw this today, and clearly remember was not there when I started using WordPress.

You can also change this email ID any time you want. This has an even more powerful implication. Since any one sending an email to this ID will publish a post in your blog (there is no check on sender’s identity). One can quickly change this “Secret” email and share with others to invite open posts/views etc creating an open forum. Once done, this can be changed again, closing the entries, and making email pressing private again.

I just wish for some more goodies from WordPress:

1.  Any ideas/tricks on how to tag a post which is pressed from email
2. The WordPress blog URL which serves as OpenID is platform 1.1. Please start dishing out OpenID platform 2.0 which is what everyone else seems to be using now a days (including Google, Yahoo, Facebook, MyOpenID to name a few)

By the way, I got my OpenID 2.0 from “MyOpenID” and thats http://sidfadnis.myopenid.com/

Cheers !!
Siddharth

My First Award !!

I usually go to Kalyan’s Blog every once in a while. He always comes up with so many posts from different subjects. However this last time I saw this link on his blog, that led me to Sudeshna’s Blog, which was all about recipes from Bengal and otherwise. The blog was simply “delicious”. And blog surfing has its own rewards too. I received this Award just for visiting her page. Yippee !!

Thanks Sudeshna, but I will defer passing this on, till there are a substantial number of visitors to my blog. This one is due on me.