Posterous Spaces for iPhone makes it effortless to share your thoughts, photos, and videos from just about anywhere. When you first start up the application, after seeing a few introduction screens, you will be able to register a new account or login with your existing Posterous account. After logging in, you will see the home screen:

The reader is where you can keep up with your friends and family by seeing new posts on spaces you follow. The popular tab, selected from the top of this section, showcases interesting and popular content from public spaces on Posterous:

Activity will show

You can share photos using Posterous Spaces by clicking New Post and then clicking Upload Media on the right side of the post composer or by adding photos in the gallery picker in the Posterous iPhone app.

Your photos are automatically added to a gallery, which you can customize or split by clicking on it when editing your post.

When you first start Posterous for Android, you’ll see the welcome page. Tap Post to start posting your pictures, video, and thoughts or tab Login if you already have a Posterous account:

If you already have an account, you can Login and browse all of your sites:

You can disable the mobile theme for your Space’s visitors.
To do this, simply click Customize in the Settings dropdown for a Space.

Then click the Customize section on the left side and select the More Options tab.

Finally, check the box under Disable mobile theme and click “Save, I’m done!” at the bottom of the page to save your settings.

You can add static Pages or a list of links to external sites to your site by going to Spaces > Click the title of the Space you would like to add to > Clicking Pages and Links

Pages are designed to be static and are not designed to be posted to. They are ideal for an “About Me” or “About this Space” page that will be viewable when visitors visit your Space’s website.

You can set a page as the default page someone sees when they navigate to your Space in the Advanced Options section at the bottom of

Learn how to selectively post to multiple sites of the same type.

Do you have two Twitter/Facebook etc. accounts but you only want to autopost to one of them?

Email #text@posterous.com to send only to sites where the url contains that text.

For example, if you have twitter.com/apple and twitter.com/banana, you can email #apple@posterous.com to update apple but not banana. You can also combine services. #apple+facebook@posterous.com will post to twitter.com/apple and all your Facebook sites.

No matter where you email, we’ll always update your Posterous site. Posts on the external sites will have a post.ly url that links to the

Posterous can autopost to blogs that support the standard MetaWeblog API and Really Simple Discovery protocols. This includes blogs from Wordpress, Typepad, Movable Type, Squarespace, Xanga, and Drupal.

In general, you’ll need to supply the username and password to your blog to give us access to autopost to it. Different sites have different username conventions - sometimes it’s your email, sometimes it’s something else. Check below for site-specific instructions.

In addition, we also support blogs from Tumblr and Blogger which do not use the MetaWeblog protocol.

WordPress Direct

The username for Wordpress Direct isn’t the username you use to

No, Posterous does not support pictures or video sent through SMS or MMS at this time. To post pictures or video via your mobile phone, just email them to post@posterous.com or use the Posterous Spaces iPhone app.

Markdown is a rich-text formatting language that allows more precise control over how text is presented on your Posterous.

You can use markdown in posts — you just have to make sure you click the HTML button in the post editor to go into raw HTML mode.

Once HTML mode is activated, you’ll be able to edit markdown in the editor easily.

What you’ll see on your Posterous if you typed the above Markdown code into the Web Editor:

You can also post using Markdown by email by sending a plain text email to sitename@posterous.com with and to encapsulate your

A quick guide to some key features that Posterous Spaces offers.

Can I change my theme?

Yes! Posterous offers dozens of professionally designed custom themes and full theme customization. You can quickly and easily customize how your Posterous looks and works or you can dig deeper with custom themes and truly make it your own. To get started, just click Customize from your Spaces list.

Can I create a full site with Pages and Links to other sites?l

Posterous Spaces offers Pages as a way to create static web pages that live on your Posterous Space. For example, you can

Learn how to setup a custom domain with your Posterous Space with GoDaddy. First, register an account and your desired domain name on GoDaddy. The tricky part is in setting up the correct values in the system. Here’s how to do it:

1. Login to your account from the GoDaddy homepage and then select Domain Management from the Domains section:

2. Then, click on the domain name you want to setup with a Posterous Space.

3. Click Launch under the DNS Manager section to launch the DNS manager.

Do not change any DNS name server settings. You only wan to

Posterous allows you to automatically update your Facebook profile and your Facebook page with your posts.. Setting up autoposting to your Facebook page takes a few extra steps, and it’s important to follow these steps in the exact order as shown below or it won’t work correctly.

These instructions for setting up autoposting to a Facebook page for the first time. If autoposting to Facebook pages has stopped working and you want to reset your connection, please complete these instructions first.

1) Login to your account, go to the Spaces section, select a Space and, using the dropdown menu, choose

You can set the number of posts per page (we’ll show up to 100) in your theme settings.

1. Click Customize in the Settings dropdown for your Space.

2. Go to the “Customize” section on the left side and then find the “Posts per page” field on the “More Options” tab

You can categorize the posts on your Space by adding tags either through email or on the post’s page itself.

Add tags in the subject of your email using the syntax ((tag: apple, gadgets)). The tag syntax will not show up in the title of your post, but your post will be tagged with the tags you include.

You can also add tags when using the Web Editor, using the Post Options tab in the right sidebar:

Posterous allows you to build robust custom themes for your site.

See our custom theming reference pages for more info on how to create or port custom themes to Posterous and check out the Examples space for great examples created by others.

Changing your timezone in which your posts are published is easy.

1. Go to the Space Settings for the Space you wish change the timezone  

2. Scroll down to the Commenting and Posting Section and click Edit

3. Using the dropdown box, choose your timezone and then click the Save Settings button

You can add a header image for your site for use with certain themes. To do this, click Customize in the Settings dropdown for your space.

Click the Customize section on the left and the Header Image tab:

Then click Choose File and select the image you would like as your header image.

Note: The header image should be approximately 500px in length.

To delete your Space, log in and follow these steps

1. Click Spaces
2. Find the Space you want to delete and use the pull-down menu to find the Delete Space option as shown below. There is no way to recover your space after you delete it so please be careful!

Please note that you cannot delete your Primary Space. You must assign another one of your Spaces as Primary first. If you wish to delete your account, please follow these directions-

To Delete your account, log in:

1. Click Edit Profile on the left navigation
2. Click Account on the right side
3. Click Delete Account at the bottom of the page

This will delete all of your owned spaces and all posts associated with those spaces.

To edit a tag, edit a post and click Post options tab.

You can edit or add a tag for that particular post or remove them altogether. Posterous doesn’t currently offer batch tag editing, but will in a future release.

You can choose whether or not to display the Twitter and Retweet Facebook Like buttons.
Click Customize in the Settings dropdown for your space.

Choose whether or not you’d like the Twitter Retweet button and Facebook Like button displayed under your posts:

If you would like to remove the Facebook Like button but keep the Twitter Retweet button (or vice versa), you can customize your theme. Learn more about custom themes in Posterous.

To make your space private, click Spaces and click the dropdown settings menu across from the space whose privacy settings you would like to change.

Click Edit in the privacy section to change the privacy settings for your site. Note that you can only make spaces that are not your primary space private.

You can protect your whole Posterous site with a password. See the Privacy section by clicking Settings in the action dropdown from the Spaces section.

Be sure to save your settings by clicking Save Settings at the bottom of your page.
You can also set a seperate password for your Space. After you set a password, everyone visiting your site for the first time will be asked to input the password you selected to view the Space. Your visitors can set their browser to remember the password for subsequent visits. If you would like to reset this automatic site access

You can post a video to your Posterous in several ways

If you have a video file, you can simply upload that video file using our Upload Media button in the web post composer. We’ll convert this video and make it optimized for web and mobile viewing.

If you are trying to embed a YouTube or Vimeo link, simply insert the link and we’ll automaticlly embed the video file for you to perfectly fit your theme’s width.

You can also simply email your video in as an attachment. Just email post@posterous.com with your video attached. If you video is too

You can add additional email addresses to post from. To add additional email address to your Posterous account, click Edit Profile and then Account on the right side.

Note: Only enter email address which belong to you. If you would like to add a contributor for a group blog, go to the the Space section and Add Members in the dropdown across from the Space.

You will be able to post to your Posterous Space from any of the confirmed email addresses you enter.

You can change the name of your space or change it’s address on the web by clicking Spaces and then clicking the dropdown Settings menu across from the space’s settings you’d like to change. In the Setting section, click Edit across from Name your Space to change it’s name and location on the web.

You can reverse the order of the posts on your Space (with the oldest post first) in your theme settings.

1. Click on “Spaces” in the top navigation bar

2. Go to the “Settings” dropdown for the space you want to change and click on “Customize”

3. Go to the “Customize” section on the left side and then find the “View posts in reverse” field on the “More Options” tab.

You can save a post as a draft by clicking Save when composing a post, clicking Cancel, then Save draft when composing a post in our mobile application, or by emailing draft@posterous.com.

At this time, drafts on the mobile app do not sync with the web interface. However, you can save as a private post to accomplish this and draft sycning will be available in a future update.

It’s simple to schedule your posts anytime in the future. When sending posts via email, just add the following tag to your subject line and type when you’d like your post to appear in plain, simple english. For instance, all of the following will work

((delay: in 3 hours))
((delay: in 1337 minutes))
((publish: on 12/12/2013))
((publish: on December 12, 2013))

You can also schedule your posts for future posting from the bookmarklet and the editor by going to the Post Options section and selecting “Schedule this post for the future”:

When uses the Pages feature, you can set a static homepage that’s different from your Posterous Space.

In the Spaces section, go to Settings for your Space:

In the Pages tab, you can choose which Page you would like to set as your homepage. This is the first page that will be displayed when people visit your Posterous Space website.

You can setup Autoposting for your Spaces to various social networks with the following simple steps.

1. Login to you account and click Spaces at the top of the screen. Choose “autopost setup” from the drop down menu across from the name of your Space or site.

It’s easy and free to setup a custom subdomain with your Posterous Space (e.g. blog.yoursite.com)

Here are the steps:

1. Set a CNAME record in your domain’s DNS settings to point to “Posterous.com”.

2. Click “Settings” for your Space and enter your custom domain into the domain field.

Posterous won’t Autopost if you site is set to private by design. This is to prevent links from being created on potentially public social networks and sites to content that is private. This also prevents the title of a private post from being posted publicly.

You can use Google Analytics to see who is viewing your public Posterous Spaces.

All you have to do is follow these simple steps:

1. Sign up for Google Analytics here. Use your Posterous space URL. If you are using a custom domain, use that url instead.

2. Find the Google Analytics Domain ID for your site. This looks something like UA-123456-1.

3. Click Spaces » Space Settings » Analytics to set your Google Analytics Domain ID to that ID you found:

4. You’re done!

Sometimes it takes a while for Google to register the new code and

The username in the email address determines where your email gets Autoposted. The username is the part of the email address to the left of the “@” symbol.Normal posts created by emailing post@posterous.com autopost to all your other sites. You can also specify where you want to post via the email address you send to.

You can email to specific service types on your account. Do you want to update your Twitter but not your Facebook? You can do that.

• Email posterous@posterous.com if you don’t want Autopost at all.

• Email a service: twitter@posterous.com to Autopost to just that

To create a gallery, just email post@posterous.com with a more than one picture attached or upload multiple pictures using the Web Editor or Post.ly.

Galleries are a way to show all of your pictures to your Space’s viewers without having them scroll through each one and taking up screen estate that could be better used for other posts on your Space.

Galleries are automatically created by Posterous whenever you upload more than one picture to a post. You can modify galleries by editing a post from your Space and clicking on a gallery:

This will open the gallery editor:

When you send an email to Posterous, the domain you send the email to determines which Space it is posted on. The domain is the part of the email address to the right of the “@” symbol.

When you email post@posterous.com, your email will be published to the primary Space on your Posterous account. If you only have one Space, that’s your primary! If you have more than one, it’s the first one you created.

You can also choose which Posterous site to post to by using that Space address to the left of the “@” in the email address.

To post media to your Space from the post editor, you must have Adobe Flash installed. To install Flash, click here.

Download the Flash Player installer (or install it from the pop up bar under your address bar if you’re using Internet Explorer) and double click the installer to install the Flash plugin. Restart your browser and when you create a post, the Media Upload button should function normally.

****We disabled our import site feature on Feb 22nd, 2012 to improve reliability. We will re-enable this as soon as it’s ready. Thanks for your patience. ****

We support importing from several services.

Here’s the current list:

Ning
Tumblr
Blogger
WordPress
TypePad
ActiveRain
TwitPic
Moveable Type
To get started with your import, create an account and click Import a Site from the Spaces section:

Click on the service you’d like to import on the left side and enter the URL for your site. Please make sure it is public and it’s full RSS feed is enabled (see the settings section

In the People tab, you can manage who you’d like to receive emails containing your new posts, who you’d like to contribute to your Space and who has complete control over your Space.

Subscribers are people who you want to receive your new posts via email. Adding someone as a subscriber is an effective way to ensure your latest posts are viewed by people who don’t visit your Space or group every day.

Contributors are people authorized to post to your Space or group. Adding contributors enables you to have multiple authors for your Space. There are two ways a

Sometimes, autoposting to Facebook may suddenly fail. This usually happens if you have changed your password on Facebook. When you change your password, Facebook severs all existing connections with external sites, so you need to re-add them.

This usually takes care of most Facebook autopost issues:

1. On Posterous, delete your Facebook autopost site by going to Space Settings, clicking the “Autopost” tab, then deleting Facebook.

2. Visit http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php

3. If you don’t see Posterous in the list, click “Authorized” in the dropdown, and see if it’s in the list there.

4. Click the blue “X” to delete the link

Differences in formatting can occur because of differences in the way some programs display your post and the HTML we display as your post on your Posterous Space. The conversion between the two is sometimes imperfect.

Instead of composing messages in a word processor and then copy and pasting it into your email client (or the Web Editor), we recommend composing your posts directly in your email client.

We’re constantly trying to improve our text processing to make sure your post appears just as you intended. If you see consistent errors, please email us at help@posterous.com and include the email

If don’t have a domain yet, you can purchase one through Posterous on our domain management page. We’ll handle all the technical details – all you need to do is purchase your domain, and you’ll be all set

If you already have your own domain, please follow the steps shown below.

(If your domain is with GoDaddy, please go here for step by step instructions )

1. Log into your domain registrar where you bought your domain and go to the DNS settings or DNS management page.

2. Add an A record to the following IP address: 184.106.20.102.

It’s easy and free to link your Posterous Space to a custom domain that you bought through a third party domain registrar like Go Daddy or register.com.

(If your domain is with GoDaddy, please follow these step by step instructions)

Here are the steps for all other domain registrars.

1. Log into your domain registrar where you bought your domain and go to the DNS settings or DNS management page.

2. Add an A record to the following IP address: 184.106.20.102. Delete all other A records that do not point to this address. This is the only

If you are having trouble importing a site from Blogger, please make sure your RSS feed is set to full content. Also, imports will not work correctly if your site is in ‘Dynamic View’

Note: DNS is heavily cached and changes could take up to 24 hours to take effect. It is recommended you wait this long after the initial set-up before troubleshooting any errors.

We’re sorry that you are having problems with your custom domain setup

1. Make sure that your Custom Domains setup is set up using these instructions.

2. The most common problems are caused by changing your Name Servers (there are two). If you are doing this, it will not work. You need to add an A record as described here.

3. If you are setting up a

Posterous supports posting to Facebook Pages. However, there is an additional step required for Autopost for Facebook Pages to function properly.

Follow the steps here to reset your Facebook Autopost.

Note: Be sure to add the Facebook Profile that is the administrator for the Facebook Page as an Autopost destination before you add the Facebook Page. You are not required to post to both, but the profile must be added for Autopost for Facebook Pages to function properly.

Then, navigate to this page: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6694405826

1. Click “Add to My Page” on the left side and select the page you want

Sometimes WordPress doesn’t properly encapsulate HTML within it’s XML export file, which is what Posterous uses to import your WordPress blog. To improve the reliability of the import, you can run your WordPress export file through Tidy, which can fix errors within the file.

1. To get started, go to Tidy and then upload your WordPress export file by clicking Choose file.

2. Select Input is XML
3. Click Full Report
4. Use the fixed export file in the Posterous WordPress importer to import your site

Posterous Autoposts to Facebook in a number of ways. There are several options you can set that will change the way Posterous autoposts to Facebook. By default, if you email (or compose in the web editor) a text-only post to Posterous, it’ll be Autoposted as a stream update with a link to the full text of the post on your Posterous page.

If you include photos in your post, by default, we’ll Autopost to either the Posterous Photos album , but won’t include a stream update in addition to uploading the photos included in your post. This is because uploading

Sometimes 140 characters just isn’t enough

Why should you be limited to 140 characters? A picture is worth a thousand words. Share photos. Share video. Share music. Share it and tweet it in one step with Posterous.

Posterous is the perfect compliment to Twitter. Posterous will host all your rich media for free, and post a link to your Twitter stream.

All your media in one place. Customizable. No ads. Analytics. Exportable. Demand better, use Posterous.

Posterous is integrated in these great Twitter Clients:

iPhone
Twitter for iPhone
Tweetbot
SimplyTweet
Twitterific
Twittelator
Brizzly for iPhone

Palm/HP WebOS
Tweed
Spaz

Android

Using the Posterous Bookmarklet, you can post about interesting, funny, or shareworthy things as you surf the web. Click here and follow the instructions on the page to drag the Share on Posterous link to your browser’s bookmark bar.

You can then click it on any website and it will automatically grab an excerpt from the site you are browsing on and allow you to add a comment and then post it to the space of your choice.

Guest posts are posts submitted by non-members of that Space. Each Space has its own designated posting email. For instance, blog.posterous.com can be posted to by emailing blog@posterous.com or post@blog.posterous.com.

If you allow guest posting, anyone who emails that email will have the ability to submit a post to your Space with your approval.

You can find unmoderated guest posts in your Dashboard and choose to Approve or Delete them.

A Space is where you share your photos, videos, or thoughts with everyone or a select few.

A Space can be a blog, photo album, portfolio, or group conversation.

Simple privacy settings make it easy for you to control who has access to your Space.

You can customize your Space by choosing from dozens of beautiful themes.

To get started, click on Create a New Space in the Spaces section to launch the Space Creator (screenshots below)

When you post to Posterous, we’ll also update all the other social media services you already use. There’s no need to post multiple times, we’ll do the work for you!

• We’ll update your status on sites like Twitter and Facebook.
• Photos will get published to Facebook and Flickr.
• Blog sites like Wordpress and Tumblr will get your entire post.

Whether you post by email, web, or the bookmarklet, we’ll update everything in one shot.

To get started, just go to the Spaces section after you login, click the title of the Space you would like to setup

With Posterous Spaces, you control exactly who can see the contents of your website. Share with the world or with a select few – it’s up to you.

Public
Public Spaces can be seen by anyone who visits the Space’s URL.
Ideal for: Bloggers, portfolios, business sites

Only those you invite
You can invite others to be members and followers to your Space. Members can contribute to your Space and followers receiving updates in their email and in the dashboard reader.
Ideal for: Family photos, private communications, clubs, groups, classrooms

Those who know the password
You can password protect

Autopost is a way to easily post your content and update to multiple social networks, blogs, and other services simply by posting to Posterous.

We currently support the following Autopost services:

Facebook- Profiles and Pages
Twitter
LinkedIn
Blogger
Tumblr
WordPress (XML-RPC must be enabled)
Drupal
Flickr
Picasa
YouTube
Vimeo
Scribd