Random thoughts on art, technology, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate: Posterize: A really useful WordPress Plugin

Thank you for the post.I will bookmark this and try it.

I love posterous and I'm happy to ready this. . I will definitely get this plugin

I like my Posterous when I remember I have it.  Sunday mornings I always rember because I am taking photos of a church under construction.  

Is it an all or nothing kind of thing?  I guess I need to look at the Plug-In... 

Maureen ... Looks like its all or nothing.  

You activate the plugin, it finds your posterous site, and from then on anything you post to the WordPress blog automatically also appears on your Posterous site. 

If you have multiple Posterous sites, you can choose which one receives the posts.  But it doesn't look like you can choose which posts....

perhaps I just need a second Posterous... actually I started one for my office and could not get my manager to understand... perhaps I will use that.

Bingo!  Also note ... Posterize will only send to one Posterous account. 

Thanks for this post.  I set up a Posterous account months ago and your post got me to update and start using it.

Sounds like you can't turn it on or off, per post. I use the bookmarklet and submit the ones I want to. You know me and pluggins. Easy now with WP 3.0.

Thanks for the great find! Always looking for the latest and best widgets/plugins.

Cheryl, thanks for this good info. I've never really figured Posterous out...time to do so...I have too many WP blogs but will need only one Posterous account for a brand blog. Great info. What does Missy mean "easy with WP 3.0? I have not upgraded yet!

Jeanean, I'm guessing Missy means its now easier to install plugins.  Back in the old days, you had to download the plugin, unzip it, FTP to your site, upload it to the plugin folder, and then finally activate it.  Now you can activate plugins right from the WordPress dashboard.

But I could be all wrong too.  Maybe Missy will be back to answer.

Thanks Cheryl. All our WordPress blogs need to be upgraded to the new version. I don't do that...David does it. He backs up everything first. So he's got some work to do! I appreciate your expertise! Always a resource for everyone! Thank you!

Cheryl,

Very interesting. I am a bit dizzy with Posterous, so it is adding to it (LOL), but I would make a note of it for sure.

Thanks

Yep that is what I mean, Cheryl. Easy to update now and add new ones.

Thank God!

I think I'm using the sister plug-in... Tumbrize.  Something for me to keep in mind...

I have a posterous blog but I haven't really figured out what it has (other than ease of posting) that wordpress or anything doesn't.

Lord knows I could use another blog to post to <rolls eyes> other than the 12 I already have but...is there an advantage other than ease of posting?

Julia,

One thing with Posterous is that it can automatically send whatever you post to a whole bunch more places.... So if you have a strategy of syndicating your posts to several blogs, it could save you some time.

Ahhh, now me with my 12 blogs might be able to use that. Thanks, definitely checking into it now....

Julia

Here's the workflow that works for me (at least for now - everything is always subject to change).

Since I prefer to compose in the WordPress editor, I have a sort of private hidden WordPress blog (a sub-domain on one of my Mu sites) where I write.  When I'm finishished, I publish it.

Posterize sends the published article to Posterous automatically.  Posterous turns around and automatically sends it on to some different WordPress blogs, and one TypePad blog.

Active Rain remains a different animal in a different zoo, and that is OK with me.

Heaven help me, I've just revealed some valuable trade secrets.  :-)

How does the formatting turn out (e.g. photos left justified with text filled around it, bold etc. does it stay that way after it's gone to posterous and then onto other blogs)? Do you add an 'Originally posted at..." to the footer to keep from duplicating content? I still don't feel like I've gotten an adequate answer about how google rewards/punishes duplicate content.

Since you are in such a sharing mood, I'll reciprocate and tell you what I do (and why I have so many blogs).

All of what follows is somewhat theoretical right now since, except for my main site, I just set all these up about 3 weeks ago and haven't finished up all the sites or really finalized how I'm going to workflow all of this. All of my blogs are set up to look almost identical (branding!) with an agent press theme that I customized. I have my main site: juliaodom.com where I write all my posts plus I have several 'sister' sites with domain names that are specific to different local areas or niche markets (e.g hixsonhomesforsale.com & chattanoogahudhomes.com). The domain names automatically optimize for those key words. The posts that I write for juliaodom.com that apply to a specific market are cross-posted to the appropriate site.

AR gets everything that JuliaOdom.com does plus a few metablogging posts that are directed at AR members rather than the public.

How I would envision this whole thing working with posterous is that I would send the article from JO.com to posterous and then go to posterous and select which sister sites would also get the content (rather than sending everything to all since everything isn't relevant to all).

Julia,

It sounds like we employ similiar systems.  One other thought if most of your blog sites are WordPress you could use the FeedWordPress plugin to share posts.  (FeedWordPress would be installed on the receiving sites, and it pulls posts from the RSS feed of the sending site).  I find it does a great job.

My challenge was to find a way to autopost from WordPress to some older, established TypePad sites.  Channeling the posts from WordPress to Posterous to TypePad seems to do the trick.  (Posting directly to Posterous does not offer as many formatting options, but Posterous deems to preserve and pass along all the formatting it receives.)

Mmmm, sounds like FeedWordPress might be the way to go. It's amazing all the plugins, gadgets, & widgets that are out there.

At the risk of sounding like a cliche...We learn so much on ActiveRain!

Thank you for this tip. I set it up today and it works great!

Bill:  You're welcome!