Blogging Platforms That Offer Mobile Blogging Options
If you're planning to create a new blog and intend to update your blog via mobile phone, or already have a preferred blogging platform, here we break down the moblogging options for each.
Posterous
Perhaps the most accommodating blogging service, Posterous offers an easy process for updating your blog via your mobile phone. After you've signed up for an account and have got your blog up and running, all you have to do is navigate to your mobile email and send your mobile blogging posts to post@posterous.com. Posterous is especially optimized for Android, where you can add tags, your location, and integrate it with your social media account. Mobile bloggers with iPhones have even more options, like including a photo gallery, uploading a video directly to your blog, and even adding voice clips!
Blogger
Even mobile bloggers with the most basic cell phone features can update their blogs while on the go. Blogger allows a mobile blogger to add posts via email or even SMS. To get started, email users send the word "register" to go@blogger.com. After they receive a designated code, the mobile blogger will have access to a mobile blog or they can link the account to another blog. SMS users follow the same steps, except instead of sending an email message, they send a text with the word "register" to 256447.
Tumblr
Tumblr is another blogging program that's made it easy for mobile bloggers to format their posts using their smartphones. All that's required is emailing the post to a private email address that Tumblr provides on each user's Goodies page. Depending on the information you send, Tumblr will detect the post category from one of the following: link, quote, text, photo, photoset, audio, chat, or with tags. Tumblr also offers iPhone users a free app to upload posts.
WordPress
Though WordPress is a wildly popular blogging service, it is not set up to accommodate mobile bloggers like other platforms. WordPress does offer update via email, but the process is a bit complicated. First, you have to enable the post via email option under the settings menu. Next, an email address to be used solely for updating your blog is created using a suggested numeric string. You will then return to the settings menu, filling in the required information. Afterwards, your browser has to be activated, either automatically or manually, or via complex coding input.
Luckily, plug-ins have been created to make this process less stressful, which we have discussed in this article: WordPress Apps for MoBlogging.