Publish your blog posts by email using Pagecord

There are quite a few personal blogging platforms available today. Of course, there are the big dogs, like WordPress, Ghost, Blogger, Squarespace, Medium, Wix, and even Substack. But for those looking for something simpler, we have options like Micro.blog, Pika.page, Bear.dev, Write.as, Scribbles, Blot.im, Svbtle, and I’m sure there are many more. You can even get nerdy and host your site generated using Hugo, Eleventy, Next.js, or other static site generators.

I recently came across Pagecord. I actually found the link in my bookmarks, so I must have picked it up from someone along the way, bookmarked the site, and forgotten about it. While scanning through my bookmarks one day, I happened to come across the link again.

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Pagecord caught my attention because of its unique feature: the ability to post to your blog by simply sending an email. This means you get a unique email address for your account, and you can use any email client to send a blog post (as long as the email comes from your email address). This eliminates the need to log in to your admin site and create a post from there. It’s super simple to create and publish a post from any platform.

When I tried Pagecord, I found it was much more feature-rich than I expected, with features like simple analytics and automatic weekly post digest emails to subscribers.

But my favorite feature of Pagecord is that it’s run by an independent developer who actively pushes out updates and is very responsive to email. You get unlimited posts for free, and for only $29 per year, you get private analytics, an email newsletter, a custom domain, and other premium features.

It’s difficult to pick between these great blog hosting platforms, and I admit I switch between them more often than I should. The ability to create posts from email is a feature I wish more blogging platforms would support.