Comments on: Test post from Windows Live Writer

By: Don

Don — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:12:25 +0000

We are getting ready to start developing in Drupal but we have been researching the differences between Drupal an WordPress and the effects of CSS with both… Can anyone provide any feedback between the pros and cons of each? Thanks!

By: Simon Baillie

Simon Baillie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:15:55 +0000

Re the back click losing hours of work, find in “Blogger” that it appears to be that you have lost all your work but go to “Edit Posts” and it is there.

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:23:15 +0000

I’m a big fan of WLW and I’ve learned to hate nearly all online blog-edit screens. One accidental “back” click of the mouse (particularly with a mouse pad) in all of those online writers and you can lose an hour of work. A simple “are you sure you want to navigate away” feature is missing in most of them.

When WLW gets Atom 1.0 Publishing and Live Clipboard functionality, it’ll become my only blog writing tool.

By: Eric Wroolie

Eric Wroolie — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:08:56 +0000

I started playing with WLW a few days ago after reading about it from Rory Blythe’s blog. I find the tool very good.

I’m not sure about Wordpress (I used it a long time ago but then replaced it with Drupal and then dasBlog), but I always found the web-based interfaces difficult to use when it came to uploading images (upload first, then include). I think the best feature of WLW is that it will include the image in the HTML, create a thumbnail and ftp that to the site too.

I used to use RandyRants blogging software but that had limitations too. WLH has some pretty good bugs. I use spellcheck but it decides to try to everything to the US spelling (despite the fact that my XP version specifies UK dictionary).

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:25:47 +0000

Thank you Joe,

I hadn’t spotted that.

By: Joe Cheng [MSFT]

Joe Cheng [MSFT] — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:32:07 +0000

Writer will use WordPress categories, look to the upper right hand side of the editing area, you’ll see a Categories control. HTH.

By: Ken McGuire

Ken McGuire — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:12:12 +0000

Would just be as handy to stick them in notepad and copy and paste them in later That way they’ll get into the right category on the first attempt.

Could be just me and my bad habits… :/