This Blog was written and published direct from my laptop to my Word Press blog, this was done using Windows Live Writer (WLW) a free application from Microsoft, the benefits of using Windows Live Writer are many, you can take your time writing your blog post, save drafts, retrieve a blog you have posted for editing, if you have more than one blog you can post the same article to multiple blogs, here is a quick overview of how to setup WLW and post to your blog.
Step 1: Download Microsoft’s Live Writer it will offer you other free products but you can just select the one, if you blog on other sites this application is compatible with many other services.
If you have used Live Writer before then you will know how to create an account, if not the first time you use live writer you will see the following screens.
Choose the Option “Other Blog Service”.
Enter your website address, your username and password when you press next it will validate your account.
Windows Live Writer will detect that you are using Word Press and will download and setup a template theme based on your blog setting.
Save you connection and you are ready to start.
You will now have an empty blog entry ready to go.
Write the title and a leader or summary of your blog, once you have done this select “Split Post” this will add a separator bar with a more.. tag.
Now you can write or paste the text and images, you can also insert an image from the toolbar, this will insert the image into your blog post, you can set a default size based on your blog template.
On the advanced tab for this blog I set the width to “460”, there are other options like word wrap borders etc, you will need to have a play with these to find what matches your style of blogging.
Now in the footer of Windows Live Writer you will need to set a category for this blog post, and also add tags so your blog post will be indexed and found in searches.
At any time if you have not completed your post from the Top Menu you can choose “Save Draft” this saves an unpublished local copy, and this will enable you to change the Article and update it before publishing the article, I have finished so I just press “Publish” and it will transfer the blog post it to the Word Press website.
Visit site at the top right will open the website where you can view your blog, back in Windows Live Writer make any adjustments and re-publish.
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