How do you make WordPress content management easier for clients?

Try this, https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Post_to_your_blog_using_email

I agree wtih kmessinger, for “standard” content, the post-by-email is about as easy as it gets.

If they want different types of content, or different styles, etc you have these options:

1. Keep on doing it yourself – and remember to charge for it each time!
2. Hire someone else (freelance can work) to do the updates for you.
3. Train the client on how to do it themselves.

There really is no other way around it.

Yea, it’s not really a training thing. They just don’t want to bother logging in to WordPress, haha.

I do charge, but the more clients I get, the greater percentage of my time goes to making updates VS building/designing new sites (which is what I’m passionate about). So, maybe I’ll take your advice and hire someone eventually.

I did find this snippet for post via email to custom posts. It would probably get way too complicated for clients with custom fields, but worth messing around with.

add_action('publish_phone','custom_type_by_mail');
function custom_type_by_mail($post_id){
    $p = get_post($post_id,'ARRAY_A');
    $p['post_type'] = "YOUR_CUSTOM_TYPE_NAME_HERE";
    wp_update_post($p);
}