Tag: Open Live Writer.

Blog Publishing Tools – Open Live Writer – Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer was an excellent Blog Publishing Tool. Unfortunately, it was discontinued and has not been available since 2017.

I then started to use Open Live Writer which was a free open-source fork of Windows Live Writer.

But the last time I used it, it would not publish to my WordPress blog. After spending a few minutes playing around with it, I decided to uninstall and re-install. But it was no longer in the App store. I am certain I would have downloaded it from the MS store.

But it appears that you have download the installer from the website.

This the web site https://openlivewriter.com/

I downloaded the installer and attempted to run it. However, when I got to the part where you input the log in details for the blog, it came up with the same message as before – it could not locate the blog. I had disabled the relative plugin preventing this.

So, it looks like I can no longer use this app and I will have to go back to using the new post tool on WordPress.

Open Live Writer

Comments on the replacement for Windows Live Writer.

First up, it is an ongoing project and their web site is here http://openlivewriter.org/

Improvements and updates are being worked on and, no doubt, it will get better over time.

I am using the latest build (0.6.2 as at 5/7/17) but one thing I did notice is you can’t drag the borders on tables to change the width of the columns.

Even if you specify a size, the program still inserts table columns of equal width to fit page. To get the desired column widths in the previous post, I had to open it with Windows Live Writer.

Apart from that I can’t see much else that is missing. You can “drag” images to change size:-

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AND can “watermark” images and change tooltip text,

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AND crop, rotate and tilt..      ( Highlight the image / Format Tab. )   

The spell check automatically picked up that I was using Australian English and, generally,  it works just like the Microsoft version.