Question about Blogging by email

  • As far as I can see, this is just the way WordPress works, but I want to make sure by asking here.

    I set up blogging by email, and it works perfectly. But is it true that when the new post shows up on the site, it can only show as posted by the main admin account that was first created? My intent was to enable my husband to post to our blog via email, to make it easier on him, but I would want the posts to show up as posted by his user name, not mine. It seems strange that there is an option to choose which category you want email posts to go to, but not an option to select which user name it is posted under. It seems this option is not user-specific, unfortunately, since I tried logging in as him to set up email blogging, after I saw the first test posts show up as posted by me.

    If there’s any way around this, please let me know, and thanks. But mostly I’m just expecting confirmation of this as intended behavior.

    Thanks much.

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  • I had the same issue, but I found a way around it.

    What I did was go into Users and Your Profile. For the user admin, I filled out the other person’s name and Nickname (this would be your husband’s info), and then below that, choose the appropriate name you want to show up under “Display name publicly as”.

    Then his email blogs will show up as being by the name you chose.

    It also doesn’t give him admin permissions, because it’s just the admin “Display Name”, really.

    Try that, it should work for you.

    rob

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

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    The built in “blog by email” functionality leaves a lot to be desired.

    I suggest you setup Postie instead. It performs much the same task, but is much more configurable and robust. It’s also smart enough to determine what author sends each email and post it as that author.

    Postie is not without its own share of problems, of course, but it works well once you get it up and running.

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