by Ted Mann
Post to InJersey from your cell phone
July 30, 2009 in Site News by Ted Mann
One of the best things about using the WordPress blog software as the backbone for InJersey is that there are lots of different ways to publish a post — even without a computer!
You can, of course, log into the site and use the “Add New Post” screen. But say you’re in the middle of downtown Freehold and see a major accident or a fire or a new store. You want to share the news with your neighbors right away, but it’ll be hours before you can get to a computer. All you have is your trusty cell phone.
And, as luck would have it, that’s all you need to be able to log in and post news and photos to InJersey.
No matter whether you’ve got the latest iPhone or an older, more basic phone, as long as you can access the web, you can log into the site and post. Here are three of the best ways that we reccomend:
1. If you have a Blackberry, download the WordPress Blackberry app at http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install
It takes a few minutes to install the app, and you’ll need to already have an InJersey login and password to get set up. Make sure that you specify which InJersey town you want to add. For example, you might want to put in cherryhill.injersey.com as the site domain.
Rather than walking you through all the set up steps, check out this quick video:
2. The WordPress iPhone app works much the same way as the Blackberry app. Again, make sure you have a username and password before attempting to add a blog. Here’s a quick video demonstrating how the iPhone app works.
3. Finally, even if you don’t have a smartphone like an iPhone or Blackberry, you can still access InJersey to make a post by using our mobile-optimized backend. To get to this, type in the URL of the town you’re interested in contributing to, plus add “wp-admin” to the end of the URL. For example: http://flemington.injersey.com/wp-admin
From there you’ll see an option to enter the “mobile admin interface.” Make sure to check this off.
Next you should see a stripped-down and mobile friendly version of the backend of the blog, where you can easily write and publish posts.
If you have any trouble at all getting any of these to work, please email ted [at] injersey.com.
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