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WordPress on the Road: Be a Road Warrior #41

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Article Title: Taking WordPress on the Road or The WordPress Road Warrior

Article Description/Summary: Article on how to blog while on the road with 
WordPress. Include how to access through mobile devices, blogging by email, and 
writing offline and copying and pasting into WordPress when an Internet access 
is found, and how to publish posts from countries and areas that prevent access 
to your site (such as to WordPress.com from China).

You may include other road warrior tips.

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

Skills: WordPress, Research, Writing, Graphics, Video, Audio, Photography,

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lorelle...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2013 at 4:42

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Original comment by lorelle...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2013 at 6:13

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Original comment by s.billmyre@students.clark.edu on 17 Apr 2014 at 10:20

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Excellent topic. I've been using WordPress as a road warrior for over ten 
years, and lived on the road (and the Internet) for over 20, so let me know if 
you'd like some help on this. Thanks!

PS: I assume you wanted to accept the article, so I set the status to Accepted.

Original comment by lorelle...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2014 at 7:46

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Original comment by lorelle...@gmail.com on 1 May 2014 at 4:42

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http://clarkwp.wordpress.com/2014/05/18/wordpress-on-the-road-be-a-road-warrior 

Ready for review - thank you for your patience.

Original comment by s.billmyre@students.clark.edu on 19 May 2014 at 1:39

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Lorelle could you review this as a subject matter expert please, I may focus on 
the wrong aspect of this article.  My current notes are as follows:

The layout is very impressive, and requesting feed back on the article via a 
poll is a helpful tool you may want to tad a space for written feedback as well.
A few notes so far: 
1. you should mention the Oxford Dictionary when you quote them on the 
definition of road warrior.
2. the wording on the link to the oxford dictionary feels wrong maybe #1 will 
correct the problem. but please reread the paragraph aloud to hear how it sounds
3.Some links to other articles about blogging on the road in the how to blog 
4.I am not sure how downloading WordPress helps you blog on the road unless you 
ment to have the apps, email, and offline blogging as sub topics perhaps expand 
that paragraph or adjust the layout.
5.in your shortcodes paragraph you talk about how knowing shortcode to make it 
easy to post from email, then you rely on the image to tell the rest try 
talking about some of the features and how they work and then support it with 
the image.

Thank you Derek

Original comment by d.ful...@students.clark.edu on 19 May 2014 at 5:46

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Good feedback, Derek. Here are my additional notes, because I am, indeed, a 
road warrior. :D I'll include a few other notes.

The article is still clearly in rough draft mode, an outline awaiting more 
content, form, and editing. I'll take that into consideration.

1. Please make all lists into HTML lists. 

2. The "Learn" section is confusing. Learn what? Why? What for? How do these 
articles help me? I agree that they are important but they need to be in their 
appropriate section. 

3. Derek is right. Downloading WordPress has nothing to do with this article. 
WordPress is installed on a server on a web host. It isn't software. Do you 
mean the mobile version? You have a section on that already. Confused. 

4. There are 3 things to consider as a road warrior: 

    1. Access to WordPress (publishing, notifications, interactivity)
    2. Equipment (mobile tools, apps, and access to Internet)
    3. Speed blogging (you don't have time or convenience of a flat surface and full computer system on the road, so efficiency is tested constantly)

You've touched these, and I love the inclusion of text editors. That's the most 
important tool in my arsenal. I write everything in my text editor then copy 
and paste into WordPress, often setting a dozen or more posts in the schedule 
queue at a single time. Working with the future posts or timestamp feature has 
long been the key to blogging from the road. 

You've included shortcodes that may go into your email to configure the post to 
be published, but you haven't told us about how to post by email. There is a 
link to a tutorial, but you've skipped a huge chunk of the process. Take us 
through the process. Shortcodes are an accessory to the fact that we can email 
a post into WordPress. That's cool. How can we do that? 

You've explained it a little in Post by Email, but that's for WordPress.com. 
Self-hosted versions of WordPress don't have a "My Blogs" section. I'm on My 
Blogs and there is no Screen Options there. Screen Options do not turn on 
functionality, just the panel feature on the panel. 

Check your InstantWP to set it up and get screenshots there. Post By Email is 
under Settings > Writing. Make some test posts. 

5. You also call the Admin Panels "Dashboard." Careful. 

6. A Poll is at the bottom of the post. Is there a specific reason why? 

Here is a summary of blogging from the road for me today. 

A. Notes and web pages that inspire or are newsworthy are clipped to Evernote. 
I use Feedly to quickly monitor the industry sites and news and clip them to 
Evernote when there is something of interest.
B. When time allows, I review these and cull information and links from them 
into my text editor on my laptop. 
C. I don't use the post by email, even though it has been available since the 
earliest versions of WordPress. I should, but I want control of what my content 
looks like, and to control when it releases. Many aren't that picky. 
D. Here are some articles I've written on speed blogging that might help:
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/blog-exercises-speed-blogging-with-colt/
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/05/16/web-browser-blogging-tips/
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/blog-exercises-blog-work-flows/
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/wordcamp-israel-wordpress-tips-talk/
http://lorelleteaches.com/2012/10/14/what-you-must-know-about-writing-on-the-web
/
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/wordcamp-whistler-wordpress-power-tips-s
lide-show/
E. I use the WordPress mobile app to monitor notifications and comments. This 
helps me stay on top of comment spam and respond instantly to comments. 
F. If I need to blog from the road without my laptop, I use my phone or table 
and the WordPress mobile apps. I also use a portable keyboard. It is about the 
size of my tablet. It is Bluetooth, so I can connect both devices easily as the 
keyboards on them are pretty inadequate. 
G. I also use the power of the native voice recognition program in Android 
phones to speak my blog posts. I can do this in any app on my phone and tablet. 
Voice recognition is quickly becoming easier and faster. Links must be added 
manually, but the words flow nicely with amazing accuracy. 
H. The last power tool I use in WordPress is email notification. I turn it on 
and off as I need it. If I'm checking activity on my sites regularly, it is 
off, but when I'm traveling, I'll only check the most popular sites. The less 
popular sites or clients sites have email notifications turned on so I can 
respond to them when the need is there and not when there is no activity. This 
keeps my focus where it should be, and maximizes my time on the road. 
J. Power Mobile Apps: 
WordPress
Feedly
Evernote
CamScanner and/or Handy Scanner (for scanning documents, PDF, and OCR (mobile 
OCR))
OpenGarden (allows connecting my tablet to my phone as a free hotspot (even if 
the phone service does not allow it))
Photo Editor Pro (an image editing app - there are many to choose from)

The article is a good start. Thanks for taking it on. I hope this helps.

Original comment by lorelle...@gmail.com on 21 May 2014 at 11:19

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Original comment by lorelle...@gmail.com on 26 May 2014 at 3:34

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Thank you for all the assistance on this article.

Original comment by s.billmyre@students.clark.edu on 16 Jun 2014 at 12:10