Linux WordPress Blog Publish From Command Line

Well, I have been writing and posting my blogs on WordPress site using Emacs¹. That was such a convenient and powerful package someone wrote and compelled me to adopt it and use it vigorously.

But depending on a single piece of software(after all, it is software, and every damn software is prone to bugs)is not a wise thing to do, when the other equally well(researched) option is good enough for backup and do the normal job in case the primary software misbehaves.

This kind of thing happens quite often with all the software, irrespective of whether it is open or closed source.

I was bugged(momentarily, read a few hours) by some sort of Emacs miscreants(it was probably all my fault than Emacs’s)and then that very moment I searched out for an alternative software that could do the same. And surprisingly, it takes very little time to find one. Someone bright enough has already written that piece for us. This is the true beauty of using open-source software, if someone encounters the same problem and finds a solution, they post it publicly for others to consume.

I have found a gem to publish a WordPress blog from the command line via a Perl script².

Now, for my job to be easier, I have written a wrapper script to do the same. Here is the script entirety for your perusal :

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This is a wrapper around a perl script to post woresspress blog from org file
# The original script can be found here : https://metacpan.org/dist/App-org2wp/view/script/org2wp

post_file=$1

_abort() {
if test "$post_file" == "";then
        echo You have not given the file containg post...so aborting..read the help below..
        echo
        $(command -v org2wp) -h
        exit 1
fi
}

# This is default behavior of the original script too,just making sure
_draft()  {
            if test $# -eq 1;then

                echo Posting as draft .....wait ...
                echo

                $(command -v org2wp) "$post_file"

                if test $? -eq 0;then

                        echo Posted the draft...checking at wordpress web interface..
                        echo
                        setsid -f $(command -v firefox) "https://wordpress.com/posts/drafts/unixbhaskar.wordpress.com" 2>&1 >/dev/null
                fi
           else

                 _abort
           fi
}

# This is how directly publish the post
_publish() {

        if test $# -ne 2;then

          _abort

       else
           echo Posting for publish directly .....
           echo

           $(command -v org2wp) --publish "$post_file"
        fi
}

# Calling up the routines
_main() {

      _draft "$@"

     _publish "$@"
}

_main "$@"

See! It is nothing much.

Now, you can watch that live on my YouTube Video

Footnotes:

^{1 Write And Publish WordPress Blog From Emacs}

^{2 org2wp A Perl script to publish wordpress blog from command line}