As a blogger and writer, I love to use tools which will help me to increase my productivity and specially when it comes to writing, I need something which is as good as MS word. I have been using a blog writing tool call Windows Live Writer which is developer from Microsoft and support most of Blogging platform. So far I have found this software to be one of the best Blogging tool for offline writing. Windows live writer works seamlessly with WordPress and you can directly publish posts from your desktop. In this post I will be talking about how you can configure Windows Live Writer with a WordPress blog. Before that I would recommend you to have a look at : Window live Writer : Bloggers tool for Blogging
This is a step by step guide on how to configure windows live writer for your wordpress blog.
1. You need to enable XML-RPC publishing option in your wordpress blog under Writing> remote publishing.
2. Open Windows Live writer > Click on Blogs > Add blog account
3. Select Other blog service, that is the last option
4. Enter your Blog URL in the first field and enter your username and password. Do click on Remember password option, else it will prompt you for password at every stage.
5. After a while it will ask you for the option to make a temporary post to detect the blog theme. Click on yes. This way whatever formatting you will do, that will be exact the same replica of your blog theme. That post will be removed automatically after the test post.
6. Final Set up. Enter blog nick name
Now your windows live writer is setup to publish posts directly from your desktop.
Here is Window live writer video
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Article by Harsh Agrawal
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I faced the same problem at the starting,first step is the most important and most unknown among new users.
I haven’t tried that yet Seem to be a long process may be I will never use this again. Is there in user in here of this tool.
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It’s actually step process and it’s not long .
Most of the user and blogger use windows live writer to write and it is coming out to be very productive for them. I will suggest give this tool a try and I’m sure you will love it.
Great info once again. You certainly know how to keep your readers interested. Keep up the good work
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Great tool and nice tuto.. I will try it
Thanks
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This is a must have tools for bloggers. Makes life much much easier. BTW are there any other such tools out of the MS domain which you would recommend.
Thank you Harsh for this information.
Never thought about doing this, will give it a shot.
Excellent tutorial.
Hey Bro, I had read this post longback!
did you write it again??
windows live writer is an amazing tool and every blogger should use it…. This tutorial from Harsh is simple and awesome
nice illustrations its great to publish posts without leaving desktop. We can to give a try to scribe mozilla extension for blog posting.
Thanks for this tutorial. I heard about windows live writer from quite sometime but never tried it.
Let me try this over the weekend.
I was unaware of the first step….. so I was not able to use windows live writer. You have shown me the right way.
Thanks a lot Harsh.