mahmoudtahan91

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  • Forum: Localhost Installs
    In reply to: Posting Entries: Online to Local
    Thread Starter mahmoudtahan91

    (@mahmoudtahan91)

    13 years ago

    Indeed it would but I’m challenging myself so to speak to accomplish this without hosting it online. For now, I’m using WordPress’ ‘Post via Email’ function which works most of the time but it’s a whole can of worms on its own.

    What I was really aiming for doesn’t seem to exist so I’ll either have to host it online and set it private or stick to using the ‘Post via Email’ function.

    For the sake of clarity, I was looking for a service where I can post my entries privately and then have my local wordpress installation retrieve my posts from that service.

    Thanks everyone!

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Post Via Email on WAMP Server
    Thread Starter mahmoudtahan91

    (@mahmoudtahan91)

    13 years ago

    Nevermind. It worked. Here’s how I did it:

    Step 1:
    In Gmail’s settings under ‘POP Download’, I checked on “Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded)” even though the Status was “Status: POP is enabled”.

    Step 2:
    Set Mail Server to ssl://pop.gmail.com. Gmail requires SSL so simply writing pop.gmail.com will NOT work.

    Step 3:
    Set Port to 995. That’s usual value for SSL.

    Step 4:
    Set Login Name and Password to the e-mail address you wish to use for posting to wordpress and its password respectively.

    Step 5:
    In WAMP’s php.ini file, I enabled extension=php_openssl.dll which I’m guessing enables PHP to connect via SSL.

    Note:
    Step 5 was due to an error I got when I tried to test my POP3 configuration using the WordPress plugin called ‘Postie’ which by the way doesn’t seem to work at all.

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