Windows Live Writer is the Sure Booster of Blogging Productivity

Posted on September 3, 2007
Filed Under WordPress Tools |

If you are an active blogger especially running multiple blogs, try Windows Live Writer. Many bloggers find that it’s a great tool that makes blogging easier, faster, and better managed.

Using Windows Live Writer you can write and publish articles to WordPress and other platforms such as Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and many more.

Here are a few good use of Windows Live Writer for blogging:

1. Offline blogging

Liver Writer is a desktop application. You can write blogs and save them on local PC and transfer to your websites later when internet connection becomes available. This is handy when you travel.

2. WYSIWYG editing
When you connect to your WordPress site from Liver Writer, the theme and CSS are downloaded into Live Writer. So you can see exactly what your posts will look like as you write them, before you publish, even if you are writing offline. No more wasting time previewing your posts online.

3. Automatic Image Upload

Although image upload has been improved in Wordpress 2.2, it is still quite some manual process. To use an image in post, you have to unload the image in advance. Not with Live Writer. When you need to add an image such as a screenshot, just copy and paste it into your article. When you publish the article, Live Writer will name the image file based on the article title and upload it to a location that you configured, either within your website or another host service such as Photobucket.

4. Easy blogging on multiple websites

If you have several WordPress sites, you usually have to login to each site’s admin panel on a new browser window and write and post. With Live Writer, you can switch site easily be selecting it from a dropdown list.

5. Powerful editing features

Although WP 2.2 adds the new feature of spell checking, Live Writer’s spell checking is much better. Also, Liver Writer includes great features such as the ability to insert and edit tables, format and hyperlink content at your fingertips.

Download Windows Live Writer here, it is free.

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