Late to the party: my moblog
I recently started a moblog here, perhaps you already noticed one of the camphone pics that popped up a few days ago.
This is something i wanted to kick off for almost 18 months, unbelievable how long it took me to actually get it done. The moblog scripts are basically just a quick hack, nothing i’m perfectly happy with yet. Consider my moblog in public alpha test for the month of august.
Credit where credit’s due, so here’s a short write-up of other scripts and helpful articles which helped me whip this together over the course of two days: the script that does the actual mail-fetching is heavily based on the improved wp-mail script by john blade and the further improved version of this script over @peimic. Besides that i had to modify class-pop3.php as described in this post in the wordpress support forums.
Because i don’t have access to cron jobs with my current webhosting i wrote a little plugin for checking the mail account on a regular basis. The plugin api docs are a nice starting point and offer all the necessary information in an easily digestible form. And if you ever happen to need database access in your plugins, the wpdb class is apparently derived from ezsql and there’s a nice introduction to the class available.
As mentioned before my moblog scripts aren’t quite ready for release. I currently think about making a proper plugin out of it, but don’t hold your breath, (if ever) this may take a while. However, the scripts are already in use at another site and if you think my scripts would be helpful to you and seriously can’t wait, mail me and i’ll send you the necessary files with a few notes about how to set everything up.