I’m trying a new editor for my blog. This is Windows Live Writer, a free component of Vista and Windows 7. Using this program, I can create new blog posts from a stand-alone application and then publish the post when I am finished.
The editor looks great, and because it is not running on my old, tired, slow server, it is quick.
This is a full test, with an image and the whole nine yards. I have had problems with the latest version of the WordPress editor. When I right-align an image, it goofs everything up. I have to go into HTML mode and fix that tags so that the image is actually right-aligned. I’m not going to do that with the above image. If it looks funny, it’s because this editor couldn’t do any better than the built in one.
This is cool. I have added the Flickr Image plugin. So now I can search all of Flickr or just my photos on Flickr and insert images directly into my blog posts. Maybe there is a WordPress plugin for this? I will have to look. SO far, the Writer plugin works great.
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Update: The image alignment worked perfectly. I am also editing my post from Live Writer. This is cool.
![Big Tree Beside Road [404/1000]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6844404451_6d2eb083df_t.jpg "Big Tree Beside Road [404/1000]")
![Night Lights [403/1000]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6844370787_1f6ab62b3f_t.jpg "Night Lights [403/1000]")
![By the light of the full moon [6/52]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6838220175_5659a56fdc_t.jpg "By the light of the full moon [6/52]")
Alvin,
LiveWriter is fantastic! I used it for years and when I got a Mac this summer I ran VMWare just to run LiveWriter. Due to memory issues I had to drop the VMware, so I now use ScribeFire in Firefox on my Mac, and at school I use LiveWriter. One plugin that rocks is the file upload plugin, if you have FTP you can upload any file straight from live writer.
http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=b839fc2f-afa0-4728-8f54-cf4c0d3be8f5&bt=9
I’ve been use Writer for over a year on my photoblog. I have the flickr and twitter plugins. I do have an issue with my Wordress Reviews plugin, in that the code I need to insert into a post doesn’t work with Writer. I have to post my Reviews from Writer as a draft to my WordPress blog and then manuualy insert the review code prior to publishing.
I also haven’t found a way to insert WordPress Post Tags, but that mzy be that I haven’t found how to implement that feature. Technorati tags are built-in, but I don’t believe Technorati is nearly as popular as in the past.