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5 Great Wordpress Desktop Blogging Tools
centernetworks.com — I hate the Wordpress post editor. In fact, I'm not too fond of the entire admin area, but I love wordpress as a whole package. But with these 5 desktop blogging tools, I now love Wordpress all over again.
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- BarbaraKolbe, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Love blogjet.
- BrettFromTibet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I love the TextMate blogging bundle with markdown, if you run OS X.. it makes posting a snap!
- EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Personally, I get the most mileage out of the on-line FCK editor for my self-hosted wordpress blogs. I like this port the best. It's small and fairly up-to-date:
http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-word ...
The one thing I wanted it to do, though (that I had to do by hand-editing CSS files) was make the editor's text window match my site's CSS for true WYSIWYG.
I hate how people _claim_ WYSIWYG and then give you the default black text on white background with some arbitrary stylesheet. If your site isn't black text on a white background, BS_IWYG.- EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What's with the URL truncation? Try again:
http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-word ...
- EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What's with the URL truncation? Try again:
- wageslaven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Most those apps cost money, kind of strange. I switched from Zoundry (i did use blogjet for about a day), then switched to Windows LIVE Writer.
Real WYSIWYG, off-line editing and sync, simple, powerful, easy. Im not looking back.
http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas.- HMMaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Microsoft Word 2007 is not bad too.
- shadowspawn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+7Doesn't almost every wordpress-driven site die once it's on Digg or even becomes popular?
- anitab83, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Only if the owner doesn't use one of the better Cache plugins. I had a site on a little rinky-dink shared server, but turned on caching and it never went down (even when hit by Digg, reddit, fark, SU, and many other big sites all at once).
- fatdog789, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I should point out that TechCrunch, Cnet, and Wordpress.com all use WordPress without fail. But if you mean: should a website on a budget-host used WP? Probably not.
- thailand1972, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes you can - install one of the cacheing plugins. You don't need to throw hardware at a blog that predominantly serves up statics pages.
- Nightfall, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The host has a lot to do with it as well.
- Otto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Don't blame WordPress for cheap shared hosting services.
- HeyBob, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Hmm - you might want to read this first: (Developers Admit WordPress 2.3 Spies On Users)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/16 ... - zybch, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1Are any of these tools prevent WP from dying in the ass as soon as anyone looks at them??
- jayhawk, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2he couldn't get Ecto to work so he included it in his list to recommend?
ummm . . . yeah.
fwiw, Ecto is a really nice blogging authoring tool.- 13thKid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ecto (for os x) worked straight out of the box for me, without needing to know anything other than the path of my blog. my blog is small with a virtually non-existent audience, but ecto makes posting a snap for me, especially since i frequently compose posts while out of network range, then publish them whenever i find wifi/network access.
ps: digg's spellchecker does not know "blog" or "wifi," which i find stupefying
- 13thKid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ecto (for os x) worked straight out of the box for me, without needing to know anything other than the path of my blog. my blog is small with a virtually non-existent audience, but ecto makes posting a snap for me, especially since i frequently compose posts while out of network range, then publish them whenever i find wifi/network access.
- CodyZ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Forgive me, as I'm new to this
but do these work with wordpress.org the php script, or wordpress.com the service?
Thanks - leondel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I hate the Wordpress post editor
digg! - tnoy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1What about a desktop tool for a Wordpress site that allows it to survive digg?
- JohnnyXmas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2So THAT'S what Wordpress looks like. I was pretty certain that their servers didn't actually exist.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+1W_Bloggar is perfect for what I needed. Thank you !
- macewan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1BLOgtk for Linux.
- Casel, on 10/19/2007, -0/+5Microsoft's "Windows Live Writer" is sadly missing from the list. For a free Microsoft product it is a surprisingly powerful tool.
- zoolander, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1what are popular post editors for Wordpress on OS X?
- sophia269, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Simply great tools, all are very useful tools
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- AC76, on 12/09/2007, -0/+0Glad that Zoundry made the top 5. Good program. Plus it's free and I'm cheap.
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here is my blog: http://www.infowiki.net - ravencin, on 12/10/2007, -0/+0http://mininovatorrents.net http://rapidshareit.org http://megauploadnow.com
- Skew4w3, on 12/10/2007, -0/+0Cool.
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http://www.ucgwaa.org - tdmoney07, on 12/14/2007, -0/+0We thought about Wordpress for our website. http://www.tagquestmarketing.com
- senojetan, on 03/05/2008, -0/+0I was thinking about Word press for my website I will do some more research http://washingtonlabradoodles.com/index.htm
- enivid2007, on 12/18/2007, -0/+0I've recently moved to WordPress an I find these tools extremely useful.The only problem - some of them are paid.
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- stgermond, on 01/22/2008, -0/+0I've done some work with Wordpress and found it to be a little stiff, but comparable to most of the other free platforms. I'm a big fan of Blogger, too, for simple stuff and Movable Type for more features. http://community.mytypes.com/acne/weblog/
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http://mp3onlinemusic.biz - CharlesD, on 03/31/2008, -0/+0I love wordpress and cant stop bloggin ever since I found out about it. Love to read new tips.
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