For Windows users, you can do offline WordPress editing within Word itself, while Linux users can use BloGTK. Some of these applications may ask for the XML-RPC or API endpoint of your blog. When you want to design or develop a dynamic WordPress website offline where no one but you can see it, then the FREE version of MAMP is the way to go. What is MAMP? MAMP stands for M acintosh, A pache, M ySQL, and P HP. Ecto is an offline blog editor for Mac machines. Ecto is completely integrated with Mac operating system as it can use data from iPhoto, iTunes or Address Book. Works with WordPress, MovableType, TypePad, Blogger, Squarespace, and many more. Essentially, the Weblog Client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line; then, the next time you connect to the Internet, you can publish that post. For information on blogging by email, see Blog by Email. Apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows: the freedom to publish anytime, anywhere.
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
Description
Manage or create your WordPress blog or website right from your iOS device: create and edit posts and pages, upload your favorite photos and videos, view stats and reply to comments.
With WordPress for iOS, you have the power to publish in the palm of your hand. Draft a spontaneous haiku from the couch. Snap and post a photo on your lunch break. Respond to your latest comments, or check your stats to see what new countries today’s visitors are coming from.
WordPress for iOS is an Open Source project, which means you too can contribute to its development. Learn more at https://apps.wordpress.com/contribute/.
WordPress for iOS supports WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org sites running WordPress 4.0 or higher.
Need help with the app? Visit the forums at https://ios.forums.wordpress.org/ or tweet us @WordPressiOS.
With WordPress for iOS, you have the power to publish in the palm of your hand. Draft a spontaneous haiku from the couch. Snap and post a photo on your lunch break. Respond to your latest comments, or check your stats to see what new countries today’s visitors are coming from.
WordPress for iOS is an Open Source project, which means you too can contribute to its development. Learn more at https://apps.wordpress.com/contribute/.
WordPress for iOS supports WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org sites running WordPress 4.0 or higher.
Need help with the app? Visit the forums at https://ios.forums.wordpress.org/ or tweet us @WordPressiOS.
What’s New
* Idle means idle: when you don’t use the app, it’ll do less, and improve the performance of your device.
* Manage your notification settings from the Notifications screen (makes sense, right?).
* The displayed date and your site’s time zone are now in perfect sync.
* Enjoy smoother, more stable loading of post previews.
* Manage your notification settings from the Notifications screen (makes sense, right?).
* The displayed date and your site’s time zone are now in perfect sync.
* Enjoy smoother, more stable loading of post previews.
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Ver. 13.1 stats not showing for the current day
I updated my iPhone and iPad to 13.1 (had to completely reinstall the app on my iPhone a few days ago when an earlier version 13.0? was released..). It is about 6:50 AM on August 27th. The Stats display still only shows stats up through 8/26 on the iOS app for both iPhone and iPad. If I use a web browser on a laptop and visit my site stats, I can see stats correctly up through 8/27, but not in the iOD version. I tried to open a chat session with you on my laptop to inform you of this, but it wasn’t connecting to anything, so, sorry, but I had to use this route for feedback. Hope you see this report!!!
P.S. - My time zone is set correctly to Los Angeles in both the iOS and web versions. The latest iOS version history mentioned changes to the time zone setting, so I think this change was not thoroughly tested.
PLEASE MOVE SLOWLY AND DO NOT BREAK THINGS!! Facebook’s software development philosophy is total crap!
P.S. - My time zone is set correctly to Los Angeles in both the iOS and web versions. The latest iOS version history mentioned changes to the time zone setting, so I think this change was not thoroughly tested.
PLEASE MOVE SLOWLY AND DO NOT BREAK THINGS!! Facebook’s software development philosophy is total crap!
Lacking features from the full site
I use this app for work because I'm frequently on the go and away from a computer, and for whatever reason accessing the site from iOS Safari makes it impossible to save anything into the body text form.
Bitmap editor for mac. While this app is a lifesaver and easy to use for the most part, I'm continually frustrated by how many features from the main site are missing. For instance, there doesn't seem to be any way to assign authorship to a blog post in the app, and nor does there seem to be any way to edit metadata in the media library. I can live with the fact that embedded social media cards and iframes don't display properly in the text form while writing, but it would be nice if posting a raw url in the app's text form automatically converted it into an html embed.
Another problem with the app is that it seems to have caching issues. Tons of drafts that have already been published stay visible in drafts, and keep accumulating the longer I use the app without deleting it. I hope solutions to these things are in the pipeline.
Bitmap editor for mac. While this app is a lifesaver and easy to use for the most part, I'm continually frustrated by how many features from the main site are missing. For instance, there doesn't seem to be any way to assign authorship to a blog post in the app, and nor does there seem to be any way to edit metadata in the media library. I can live with the fact that embedded social media cards and iframes don't display properly in the text form while writing, but it would be nice if posting a raw url in the app's text form automatically converted it into an html embed.
Another problem with the app is that it seems to have caching issues. Tons of drafts that have already been published stay visible in drafts, and keep accumulating the longer I use the app without deleting it. I hope solutions to these things are in the pipeline.
Developer Response,
Thank you so much for your feedback. I've forwarded it onto our team and we'll keep track of demand for the features you mentioned. For the caching issues: manually dragging the posts screen down with your fingers should force the app to refresh. If that's not the case, we'd be happy to chat further about this problem. You can email us at [email protected] or navigate to Me > Help & Support > Contact Us within the app.
Mediocre and continues getting worse
I love Wordpress, I’ve been using it for my blog for years, but it’s one step forward and 5 steps back.
Two complaints that need to be addressed:
1. Imbedded video. Unless I use the website I cannot embed videos in the post from the app. I used to be able to just drop the link into a text field and, viola!, the video would appear. Now, it just appears as the link, with no preview. And if I have to edit a post that has an embedded video from anything other than my computer browser, it reverts to just a link.
3. No clock coordination. I don’t know when scheduled posts are going to go live. I set the time (CST/CDT) and it either publishes early, not really a problem, or doesn’t publish at all. I like to have my posts to go live at specific times so that my regular readers know when to look. For example, if I schedule a post for 8am(CDT) on a specific day it might go live at 4am (CDT) that day or never. Come on people.
Two complaints that need to be addressed:
1. Imbedded video. Unless I use the website I cannot embed videos in the post from the app. I used to be able to just drop the link into a text field and, viola!, the video would appear. Now, it just appears as the link, with no preview. And if I have to edit a post that has an embedded video from anything other than my computer browser, it reverts to just a link.
3. No clock coordination. I don’t know when scheduled posts are going to go live. I set the time (CST/CDT) and it either publishes early, not really a problem, or doesn’t publish at all. I like to have my posts to go live at specific times so that my regular readers know when to look. For example, if I schedule a post for 8am(CDT) on a specific day it might go live at 4am (CDT) that day or never. Come on people.
Developer Response,
Do you have time to get in touch so that we can gather more details about the problem? You can get in touch via Me > Help & Support > Contact Us within the app. You can also email us at [email protected]. Our support team would be happy to look into this and guide you.
Information
Requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
English, Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Welsh
Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
Windows Live Writer’s future is uncertain at best. Microsoft recently announced the end of the Windows Live brand, and Windows Live Writer was noticeably absent from the list of Windows Live products that would be renamed. In response to concerns, all Microsoft is saying about Windows Live Writer is it will “work great on Windows 88 YouTube Videos Of People Testing Windows 88 YouTube Videos Of People Testing Windows 8At the time of writing Windows 8 is almost ready for public consumption, with an expected release date of October 2012. The Windows 8 Release Preview is now available to download for those in need..Read More” – not whether development is being halted or not. With such an uncertain future, you might be wondering what alternatives are out there.
One thing that became clear to me while writing this post is how few alternatives there really are – many older blog editors have had their websites shut down and have vanished from the Internet. Windows Live Writer was (and still is) the best desktop blogging client out there. It’s a shame they seem to be moving to kill it after cornering the market.
WordPress Built-In Editor
While many of us here at MakeUseOf are Windows Live Writer fansThe Top 5 Free Microsoft Products & Why They Are The BestThe Top 5 Free Microsoft Products & Why They Are The BestRead More – personally, I think the easy addition of images without going through WordPress’s upload form is a killer feature – quite a few of us think that WordPress has become good enough. If you haven’t recently tried the built-in editor in WordPress, you might be surprised just how slick it’s gotten.
If you’re using a modern browser (not Internet Explorer 97 Useful Tips & Tricks For Internet Explorer 9 Users7 Useful Tips & Tricks For Internet Explorer 9 UsersTech websites write a lot about Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, so it’s easy to feel a bit left out if you use Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 9 is easily the best version of Internet..Read More, which doesn’t implement the file upload API), you can drag and drop images directly onto the file upload pane to quickly upload them. This saves some time, although it’s not quite as convenient as drag and dropping images directly into Windows Live Writer without accessing any dialogs.
The built-in editor is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, just like Windows Live Writer, so writing and formatting your posts is pretty easy. One feature that it lacks is automatic recovery of the post you’re writing if your browser crashes. For this, you’ll want to try the Lazarus extension – available for both and Firefox [No Longer Available] — which restores text if your browser crashes. You’ll also want to manually create back up copies of the posts you submit, just to be safe – when you write a post in Windows Live Writer, you get a local backup on your computer.
Zoundry Raven [No Longer Available]
Zoundry Raven seems to be one of the most popular desktop blogging clients after Windows Live Writer. It’s a pretty decent application, although it isn’t quite as slick as Windows Live Writer. As a tech blogger who works with screenshotsHow To Take Awesome Screenshots In Windows 7How To Take Awesome Screenshots In Windows 7In principle, taking a screenshot is very simple. With the right technique however, you can save yourself a lot of time and hassle and greatly improve the look of your screenshots. In this article I..Read More a lot, I was disappointed that you can’t drag-and-drop image files directly onto Zoundry Raven’s editing window. You have to use the Insert Image File option and browse to the image file on your system.
Zoundry Raven has some features Windows Live Writer doesn’t. It can be installed as a portable app, for convenient on-the-go use. It also includes a media storage wizard that allows you to upload images to a different location – including Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, ImageShack, or even a custom FTP serverHow To Set Up Your Own FTP Server With Core FTPHow To Set Up Your Own FTP Server With Core FTPRead More.
BlogDesk
BlogDesk is another decent option – in fact, Tina’s used itTake A Look At Tina's Mobile Work Setup [Show & Tell]Take A Look At Tina's Mobile Work Setup [Show & Tell]A couple of months ago, James revealed his home setup and challenged the rest of the MakeUseOf team to do the same. I don't work from a static location, so I don't have a home..Read More to write posts here. BlogDesk has a focus on simplicity and distraction-free writing. Unfortunately, this might make it a bit limited if you want to format posts with more complicated formatting. For example, I couldn’t find an easy way to format certain lines as headers without inserting the HTML by hand. BlogDesk also failed the drag-and-drop-an-image-file test. You have to use the Insert Image option here, too – although BlogDesk does provide some image-editing options, allowing you to crop and resize the image when inserting it.
ScribeFire [No Longer Available]
ScribeFire is an extension for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. It allows you to blog right from your browser, a feature which Ryan enjoyed in his reviewHow To Blog Better From Your Browser With ScribefireHow To Blog Better From Your Browser With ScribefireRead More. ScribeFire’s split-pane interface is particularly useful if you blog about things you find online – just select some text on a web page, right click, and select Blog This. You can add your take on the subject and easily send a post straight to your blog. If you want to blog more often, ScribeFire is a great way to reduce the friction.
Ryan’s also written about using ScribeFire to create blog post templates and write quick blog postsHow To Use ScribeFire To Write Quick Preformatted Blog PostsHow To Use ScribeFire To Write Quick Preformatted Blog PostsRead More.
Edit Wordpress Offline
Should You Switch?
The best solution may be to stick with Windows Live Writer itself for the moment. In fact, I wrote this post in Windows Live Writer – it still works fine, and Microsoft assures us that it will even work fine in Windows 8. Still, it seems like Windows Live Writer has come to the end of the road – it will likely become increasingly dated and stale from here on out. What a shame.
Don’t discount the built-in editor if you use WordPress, though – it’s surprisingly good.
How do you blog? Do you use the built-in editor, are you a Windows Live Writer fan, or do you prefer another editor?
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- Open Live Writer Can be a good option .I've used many editors and I havent found any substitutios for Windows live writer .Open live writer stood out among all the alternatives(For Mac OS X I strongly recommend DESK PM App).I use it in my blog tune2tech.com
- I have been writing my posts off line as Google Docs. I then use an addon called 'Docs to WordPress' to post them to my blog. I do the final editing and formatting using WordPress' editor.Based on the comments here, I will give OLW a try.
- Blogger changed some stuff again and now Windows Live Writer is no longer working with it. Giving a BlogDesk a go. I do not like online editing because I find it unreliable and editing tools in blogger just are not enough for my needs and I am picky person how I want text and images to look.
- I was using WLW 12 for quite some time very successfully. Upgraded to Windows 10 and though WLW seems to work fine, I can no longer post into Blogger. I downloaded Open Live Writer (OLW) for a test and could post just fine. I then discovered that OLW can open WLW draft posts and then publish to Blogger. Hoping that OLW just gets better (plug-ins, etc.), but until then the WLW/OLW 'team' seems to work well.
- I'm going to have to try using OLW. Right now I keep getting funky errors when trying to post to WordPress from WLW.
- Windows live writer does not connect with Blogger. I tried a lot of 'solutions' found on the net none of which worked. I can piblish to my wordpress blog but not to blogger from WLW. Everybody simply blamed google for making changes to its security codes but not the windows people who fail to change or update their writer. Without this really very helpful WLW very much handicapped to blog since the blogger itself is not very feature rich
- It is annoying, but Windows doesn't support WLW anymore (since more than a year).
You have to use OLW..
- Windows Live writer will not install on my PC running Windows 7, nor on my laptop running Windows 10. Microsoft has blocked installation even if you run a 2010 install file.There is a big failing with all blog writer programs. You can set it up to write several blogs, but it will only allow one blog open at a time. If you run another instance of the program and write new text in another blog it will save as the first blog written with its particular background format colors.
- No such problems for me..laptop win7 64bit, tablet win 10 32bit.
- Open Live Writer has no spell check or undo option which is a pain. Who wants to write a blog in a word processor, do a spell check then copy and paste into a 'dummy' program and it is a dummy! If you enter any tags whether with commas or not it will not publish - may as well go on the net and use Blogspot directly. Zoundry Raven gives error messages when installing on Windows 10 and will not run at all.No one cares enough to write a solid program. Ah well, back to Blogspot with all the page loading lags. Even that is a dog.
- Not sure when it was done. But, Open Live Writer now has a spell checker. As for undo, Ctl-Z, the standard undo key commands seems to work just fine for me in Windows 10.
- have you tried KrojamSoft FilesSearch? it can help
- Microsoft has open sourced Live Writer - it lives on!!!! You can download it here: http://openlivewriter.org/Brian
http://mythoughtsonit.com/2015/12/microsoft-open-sourced-windows-live-writer/ - I use Windows 8.1, and I've seen many good reviews about the Windows Live Writer. But why is it that I don't have one installed on my laptop? I only have movie maker and photo gallery installed in my Windows Essentials.
- Great info, but I see it's a few years old. Any new news on Live Writer's future? Or new other options out there? :-)
- Live Writer seems to work OK under Windows 10.
- I've been using windows live writer for a few months, but I'm not happy with it. I always have to go back into blogger to correct paragraph formatting. If I can't find something I like better, I suppose I'll just post from inside blogger.
- I use Live Writer and like others am constantly looking around for alternatives. What amazes me is that other designers still think we have time for uploading images - the Live writer tool is definitely the way to go - and I have a plug-in given to me by a fellow in Microsoft to paste in JPEGs rather than PNG files which I use constantly in several of my blogs.It is frightening to think that no-one has come up with something better and even worse to think that Microsoft is no longer developing this - the interface does indeed already look a little out of date and it would have been great to see this taken forward.Best product photo editor for mac. I would not use WORD as a blog writer if my life depended on it - having been overseer for corporate pages in a large organisation and having suffered constantly at the hands of imported WORD html crap.
- Wysiwyg editor for mac. all in seo pack plugin fields have to be filled in anyways in the wordpress editor, any ideas how to fill this fields in this alt editor?
- I'm about to give a try to WordPress.com app on windows 8. It looks.. simple, minimalistic even. Besides, being a native windows 8 app is great , for it can be used on both RT and Pro versions. I don't know how my productivity will change, since it can't be resized as a desktop app, but anyways, it's good to know that there's an official version of Windows Live Essentials 2012 with WLW in it.
- I use MS Word..but via the blog publisher builtin to MS Word. It automatically pulls the keywords avaialble from my blog (WordPress), and MUCH of Word's capabiities are useable. Not all, for sure. Tables are a PITA, but they are in WordPress's editor too. Here's a link to show the mangle made by HTML of the clean Word table. But asside from that, it automatically uploads all figures and images with clarity. EVERY entry in my blog was made this way (MS Word Blog Post Template document, formatted in word, then push button in the Word ribbon posts it on the blog. Slick and quick. Here's the link to the Word Table => WordPress Table problem, and there's an image of what I see in Word while construction the post.
http://www.sundognorth.com/TtP-S/?p=1005 - I was in search for a mac alternative to WLW and stumbled upon your blog post. It's well written and it was interesting to learn about some alternative, however, the basis for your post is nonsense..Windows Live Writer will be here and updated for at least another 10 years.Why? Because so many developers inside and outside of Microsoft and so many bloggers are using it. Microsoft will never ever just let it die. Two options: Either they continue to support it on there own (which seems very likely to me) or they make it open source. Any other thing is totally unrealistic.
- One of the great things about WLW is a plugin that allows you to import images directly from Flickr into your blog. I store all of my blog photographs on Flickr and I can just call them up when required. WLW and the plugin take care of image size, linking etc. It's one less thing I have to worry about.Hopefully it will continue to work in the new version of Windows, but there again I haven't seen anything that really thrills me about Windows 8, yet.
- Well, there are users to like offline editor and I'm one of them. I've used some freeware blog editors like Blog Jet, Zondar, etc, but uptill this day, I've found Live Writer a best one, because of number of useful plugins, themes downloads and you work offline in your favorite theme environment and man other number of good reasons.However, its source editor is badly need improvements, at least there should be some color syntax. I mostly use Visual Studio for source editing.But still its a very good editor.
- My experience so far with Zoundry Raven has been entirely negative. So far, it refuses to detect any of my blogs after entering in the username, password, and API URL for Blogspot/Blogger. Perhaps it's just not as compatible with that site as the developer claims.
- Hard to find alternative for Windows Live writer.. But I will try Raven. May be a good substitute of it.
- I am not that freaked out by this. First off, the app was 'updated' in 2010 but what did it really get except for the ribbon? Its basically feature complete, and has a plugin architecture to extend it where needed.Its not getting any press because its not getting a metro version. Well duh, metro is designed for consuming content not producing it. When I just signed up for it, the petition hadn't broken 700 people after being out there for a month.We are a niche market. Its not worth it for Microsoft to muddy the waters with non-metro announcements when they are in the hype run up to windows 8. Its not getting a metro version because its not a good fit for it. It will still work on the new windows 8 desktop mode which is where all the people that care about WLW will be spending most of their time any way.Hands up any users of WLW that seriously expect to use metro in any place other than on the toilet or the bus? :) Hello, you are a niche of a niche.
- I don't think there's anything at the moment that can replace Windows Live Writer. Assuming Microsoft doesn't take the product out of the market and WordPress does not change their systems, then we'll all be sticking with it for a very long timeI find it amusing that no one else has ever tried making a nice Windows/Mac blogging app like Windows Live Writer
- Two things:1) Is MS retiring just the WL software suite, or are they abandoning their longtime online services too -- namely Live Hotmail and SkyDrive? Haven't they had Hotmail for close to 20 years?2) What services/apps do you recommend for blogging anonymously via Tor? I tried signing up for Google Blogger but it detects 'suspicious activity' and requires verification through a mobile # (which could, in theory, be traced to you).WordPress' native editor is even buggier through Tor (I use WP.com as I cannot afford a 'true' WP blog). How secure is the Scribe Fire extension?
- upto now iam using WLW, never found anything drawback, losing WLW is a great drawback to me? However zoundrey raven is a portable application, I will give it a try by sysncing to dropbox to use it in my office and personal needs.
- Great new blog. I usually use Blogspot and WordPress
- This is really sad. WLW is actually a brilliant app. I have tried all the options listed here and quiet a few others to boot, as well as some of the linux options and the fact is while collectively, they do what WLW does, as single apps they all miss something.With WLW, microsoft managed to keep the whole thing amazingly easy to use and set up, while offering WYSIWYG features, a host of more advanced ones too, not to mention the fact that it does not inject useless, unwanted code into the posts, as seen when using word.All in all, very sad to hear the end of development for WLW.
- Best easy photo editor for mac. I used ScribeFire several years ago and liked it, but it was sometimes slow and buggy back then. It might have improved since then. Now I just use a text editor, copy and paste directly into WordPress.
- Recently I started using OpenOffice (a free, open-source office suite you can find at http://www.openoffice.org/) and overall, I am happy with it.There is an extension for OpenOffice called Sun Weblog Publisher (located at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/swp). According to their description:
'The Sun Weblog Publisher allows you to quickly create, edit and publish weblog entries on many popular Blog servers. It is easy to use so that any user can start blogging right away! Use the advanced word processing features of the Writer to create blogs with tables, bullets, hyperlinks, graphics, and spellchecking via the office suite's spellchecking technology. Supports a number of Blog platforms, including Roller, WordPress, Generic ATOM and Generic MetaWeblog.'I haven't used it yet but am happy to have both of these free alternatives to work with. - You can also use Word 2010 to blog. It's not half-bad. Not as good as WLW in its heyday but it works well. Open it up, select 'File > New'. Then select 'Blog post' from the Available Templates list. Give it a try, you might like it.
- There is a great WordPress plugin called Faster Image Insert that adds a drag and drop image uploader right under your post edit window.
- There is a great WordPress plugin called Faster Image Insert that adds a drag and drop image uploader right below your post edit window so you might want to try that out.
- I usually use Blogspot than this.