Title: Automated Posting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Automated Posting

 *  [leemobile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemobile/)
 * (@leemobile)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m wondering how difficult it will be to write a plugin/script that will automatically
   create posts for me.
 * I have a script that generates a report in html (I have to report measurements
   for a school science project). Included in the report are a few image files for
   charts and graphs.
 * I’m thinking of using WordPress to “blog” my daily reports. However, my system
   is automated. Currently, I would have to manually copy and paste (as well as 
   upload the images) to wordpress using the wp-admin to post. I want to automate
   it so that my script will be run daily and all the data posted to wordpress without
   my intervention.
 * I haven’t run into any scripts or plugins that will do automated posting. How
   hard will it be to hack/modify wordpress to do what I’m asking here?
 * Programming for me is not a problem as I’m a senior Comp. Sci. Major. The real
   issue is how much of the core wordpress code will I have to hack? It doesn’t 
   seem like this can be done as a plugin.
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501304)
 * Thinking out loud, why not write the script to dump to an email, and then use
   the built in feature to post from that?
 * There’s at least one plugin for enhanced post-to-email features, seems it might
   require less “hacking”.
 * Again, just a thought.
 *  Thread Starter [leemobile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemobile/)
 * (@leemobile)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501316)
 * Thanks!
 * I didn’t even know that feature existed. That helps out a ton thanks.
 * One thing though, my reports are huge and I only want to show the synopsis on
   my main wordpress index page. On the post, I want to link it to a wordpress page
   containing the full report.
 * How do I create pages by email instead of posts? Can it be done?
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501327)
 * Just change your index.php to use the_excerpt instead of the_content template
   tag.
 *  Thread Starter [leemobile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leemobile/)
 * (@leemobile)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501377)
 * After digging around for awhile, I’ve found a solution that I’m happy with.
 * Unfortunately, blogging by email is very restrictive in that it strips away most
   html tags so it won’t allow me to display images that I want them formatted.
 * For future reference, if anyone encounters a similar problem, I didn’t realize
   that WordPress supports XML-RPC for remote posting. Why didn’t I think of this
   earlier (dugh!)!
 * Well, time to go tinker with XML-RPC to get it working on wordpress.
 * Thanks for the help miklb.
 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501390)
 * Regarding the post by email, this plugin will help
    [Postie](http://www.economysizegeek.com/?page_id=395)
 *  [ladynada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladynada/)
 * (@ladynada)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501503)
 * anyone find or write a program that uses xmlrpc to do this?
 * nada

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [ladynada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladynada/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automated-posting/#post-501503)
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