Articles by Stephan Walcher
We have received a lot of great feedback since our last release and have done our best to respond in this with this update. This is the last beta before our final release so please …
LiveSide and Techcrunch, referring to the New York Times, announce that Microsoft is planning to release the new version of the Windows Live Installer this week.
This week, it plans to turn that strategy upside down, …
The Live Writer Team announce that they will change the location of the Windows Live Writer install files. There will be even a change in the registry settings. These changes could cause problems to some …
Windows Live SkyDrive is now public beta and Scott published this plugIn. First at all you need some files in you public folder on SkyDrive
After the installation there will be on the right side this …
The alpha version of the Google Picasa Plugin has already many features:
listing of public / private albums and images
insertion of images into blog entries per double-click
selection of preview and link size (web pages can be linked …
Matt from WordPress.com about the Windows Live Writer:
It’s a little known fact, but deep within the labyrinths of Microsoft there is a team of rogue ninjas making a fantastic Windows blogging client.
If you compare the …
This list shows the functions which the Windows Live Writer supports.
Name
WordPress 2.1
WordPress 2.2+
dasBlog 1.9.7
BlogEngine 1.0.0.0
BlogEngine 1.1.0.5
Windows Live Spaces
Client Type
MovableType
WordPress
Metaweblog
Windows LiveSpaces
Post Draft to Server
X
X
X
X
X
X
File Upload
X
X
X
X
X
X
Extended Entries
X
X
Custom Publish Date
X
X
X
X
X
X
Categories
X
X
X
X
X
X
Categories Inline
X
X
X
X
X
Multiple Categories
X
X
X
X
X
Hierarchical Categories
X
New Categories
X
X
X
New Categories Inline
X
X
Keywords
X
X
Comment Policy
X
X
Trackback Policy
X
X
Author
X
Slug
X
Password
X
Excerpt
X
X
Send …
To write a post today and publish it tomorrow you have to click in the lower right corner of the Windows Live Writer on “Set publish date”.
The two arrows on the left and on the …
If you are using WordPress and Windows Live Writer together and you are having problems, maybe these solutions from WordPress.org can help you.
Image uploading fails
Posting fails for some blogs that don’t use UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, or …
Description: Attempting to open posts in Writer results in ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
Reason and Solution: A bug in Writer causes blog post parsing to fail when the post contains pre, script, and/or style tags. This will be fixed …
