{"id":7972,"date":"2011-04-12T04:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T08:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2016-02-24T05:42:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T10:42:49","slug":"how-to-use-post-by-email-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/how-to-use-post-by-email-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"How to use post by email feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<p>WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. To enable this functionality, you need to:  <\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li> Create an e-mail account<\/li>\r\n<li> Configure WordPress to access that account<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h3>Creating E-mail Account<\/h3>\r\n<p>  To post to WordPress by e-mail you must set up a secret e-mail account with POP3 access. <\/p>\r\n<p class=\"attention\">Any mail received at this address will be posted, so it\u2019s a good idea to keep this address very secret. <\/p>\r\n<p>1. Open your WordPress admin panel<\/p>\r\n<p>2. Go to Settings&gt;Writing and check the Post by Email instructions.<\/p>\r\n<p>3. Create secret e-mail account on your mail server. Contact hosting provider for further assistance. <\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wp-post-by-email-1.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/info.template-help.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wp-post-by-email-1.jpg\" alt=\"WP Post by email\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wp-post-by-email-1.jpg 977w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wp-post-by-email-1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wp-post-by-email-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><span class=\"enlarge\">(click to enlarge)<\/span><\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h3>Configuring WordPress<\/h3>\r\n<p>1. When you are done creating the new e-mail account  , return to Settings&gt;Writing  and fill in the name of the <strong>mail server<\/strong> and <strong>port number<\/strong> your web hosting provider uses.Contact hosting provider for more details. <\/p>\r\n<p>2. Next, enter the <em>login name<\/em> and <em>password<\/em> for your new e-mail account . (login name is your email address)<\/p>\r\n<p>3. Choose the default category that will be assigned to submitted posts<\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress can be configured to use e-mail to post to a blog. To enable this functionality, you need to: Create an e-mail account Configure WordPress to access that account &nbsp; Creating E-mail Account To post to WordPress by e-mail you must set up a secret e-mail account with POP3 access. Any mail received at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[247,728],"tags":[551,592,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}