Posting to Wordpress via Email with Mutt

May 5, 2017 | tui | web | blogging |

Soemtimes you are hanging out in your terminal and you just want to be able to post something to your blog quickly. I was pretty inspired by Derek Siver’s OpenBSD post [1] where he really embraces the unix philosophy of having one tool to do a job correctly and putting together various small tools like this to come up with a solution for the problem that you are trying to solve with your computer. Wordpress with Jetpack makes it dead simple to post to your blog via email [2], even if you do not have a mail server configured. I was able to write a three line bash script to “automate” creating a new post from my command line.'

#!/bin/bash
# Bash Utility to Post to Wordpress using Mutt

subject="$1"
WP_ADDRESS=

mutt -s "${subject}" $WP_ADDRESS

I saved this file in /usr/local/bin/wp and whenever I am inspired to fire off some quick thoughts to this blog I can run wp “Blog Post Title” which dumps me into a vim buffer that once I complete is sent off via mutt to wordpress. [1] https://sivers.org/openbsd [2]https://jetpack.com/support/post-by-email/#examples

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