I’ve been resisting posting my daily progress on new work simply because it would be too time consuming.\u00a0 To post anything on this blog I have to reformat the photos to low-res (created an action in PS for this), then upload them to a free photo host (so as not to use up my paid space on my own server), then copy the embedding code from that free host to the WordPress post entry with the “upload\/insert” applet.\u00a0 Then, when done I hit “publish.”\u00a0 It doesn’t sound like much, but it is a lot of work if I’m going to be doing this every night.\u00a0 Instead I thought I would try out posting via email.\u00a0 If I could do that all I’d have to do is take a photo with the Pre and email it… which takes two seconds.<\/p>\n
So I tried in vain to set it up.\u00a0 I set up a new email account on my server, and tried to copy and paste their footer code.\u00a0 However, since my blog is my own (i.e. not hosted by wordpress) there are some steps that weren’t clear. I tried multiple things (changing the URL in the “iframe” instructions, etc.) but nothing worked.\u00a0 My test email went off into a black hole and never ended up here on the blog and I have no idea why.<\/p>\n
Of course, after doing all this – I realized that this plan wasn’t going to work anyway – the Pre takes 3 megapixel photos and apparently has no options to downgrade the resolution\/size at all… so the photos I email to the blog wouldn’t fit my 600 pixel width restriction anyway.<\/p>\n
hrmph!<\/p>\n
I almost feel like starting a twitter page for this stuff… almost.<\/p>\n
Maybe someday there will be a wordpress app for the Pre….I bet there’s one for the iphone…<\/p>\n
UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Apparently I should do my research first… there is a plugin for the Pre available for WordPress.\u00a0 No idea how it actually works, but I’m gonna try it out…..<\/p>\n SECOND UPDATE:<\/strong> Apparently web journalists aren’t too hot on research either… turns out the “manage” part means “look at.”\u00a0 All that was created is something that switches the viewing of the blog to a mobile friendly format – there is no admin for mobile devices… Here is one of the completely erroneous reportings of the plug-in that lets you “manage your blog on the go.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been resisting posting my daily progress on new work simply because it would be too time consuming.\u00a0 To post anything on this blog I have to reformat the photos to low-res (created an action in PS for this), then upload them to a free photo host (so as not to use up my paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}