Greetings,

We recently released version 2.2.1 of Quick Blogcast, which contains two updated features as well as a general Spring cleaning of the interface.

Blogging by Email Revised – The Wait is Over

For those of you blogging by email, and patiently waiting and waiting, I have great news. The Blogcast team has updated this feature to be set up faster and easier than ever before. For those of you who don’t have this service set up, now would be a good time to do so. It’s quite painless; just enter an email address from which you want to send posts to your blog. It’s that easy; just mail to your blog, wait a few minutes, and your post automagically appears.

You can locate this improved feature by selecting Settings in the Manage Blog menu, and then click the Email Blogging tab. We provide detailed instructions on that page as well as within our Help Center.

A New Way to Add Podcasts

This Quick Blogcast update is not just a graphical makeover; we’ve added requested functionality that makes life easier for the podcasters among you. Podcasts used to be connected to an entry, which works well until you add the wrong file by mistake. We’ve removed the sidebar item but have added two locations where you can edit your podcast settings. You can access these new areas by either clicking the audio or video player place holder or by clicking the icon within the New Entry page toolbar, and then selecting Insert Podcast.

Editing your podcasts in this way is the first step to easily uploading your media files separately or in bulk and then creating the show details afterward. Again, further details can be located in our Help Center.

Additionally, we’ve added pop-ins where pop-ups used to display. This addition is not earth-shattering but in combination with the other UI changes, it makes the Blogcast admin section a nicer place to visit.

Thank you all for your continued feedback and suggestions.