If you’re a blogger who often guest posts for other bloggers, this is for you.
You may have seen this trick around before. This is the easiest way to send a blog post. If you send the text and images separately, have you ever found that the post sometimes ends up a little muddled at the other end? Or have you ever received a guest post and had to piece it back together? I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum. This should solve all your problems.
I originally found out how to do this from the lovely Ellie over at Misseblog. She posts some fantastic tutorials, why not take a look?
If you’re not a blogger but like to write guest posts, this probably won’t apply – but read on for more information if you wish.For this tutorial, I’ve used my most recent Like, Love, Loathe post.
Open up a new post on your blog, as if you were to publish the post yourself.
Step 1
Open up a new post on your blog, as if you were to publish the post yourself.Step 2
Write up your post as normal, with links and pictures if needed.
Step 3
Once written, click on the ‘Edit HTML’ tab next to the ‘Compose’ tab. Select all the text in the box and copy.
Step 4
Compose a new message in your email. Paste the text into the message box.
Step 5
The blogger you are guest posting for can then open up a new post in their own dashboard and place your html in.
Step 6
Your post is now ready to be published – and it’s all in the right order!
Would you like to see more tutorials in the future? If so, what would you like to see?
Leave all suggestions in the comment box below.
xo
I totally never knew you could do this! Defiantly going to write up guest posts this way in the future!
It's so good, isn't it? so much easier! xo
This is a really really great tip! Thank you SO much! I always get annoyed with blogger messing up the formatting! xxx
You're welcome, lovely xo
Great tip, I'd never even considered this before! Thanks for sharing x
No problem =] xo
Thank you so much for posting this tutorial! I've been trying to explain this to people I want to guest blog and felt like I really needed a tutorial for them with pictures, but I was dreading putting that together and hoping someone had been genius enough to already do so! I'm excited to direct people here now! Thanks again! : )
-Mel the Crafty Scientist
Awww, you're welcome, Mel! xo
This was very helpful! Thank you!
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You're very welcome xo
Thanks so much for this post! Would like to be involved in doing guest posts in the future but I had no idea how it all worked! x
You're very welcome xo
Oh, this is a great idea! I just sent off a blog post and sent it in plain text format, but I think that's what they wanted in order to edit titles/subheadings/lists etc in the same formate as the other posts on the site. Such a simple tip, will probably use it in the future.
Corinne x