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October 10, 2009 – 12:17 pm | One Comment
Blog capabilities

The blog capabilities provide a snapshot of several key metrics about the current blog software in use. This is where you can find it:
Greg creates a great matrix to compare the features of Live Spaces, …

Imtech – SEO Slugs Plugin
August 26, 2008 – 11:10 pm | 2 Comments
Imtech – SEO Slugs Plugin

WordPress give you the tool to define a title and a slug seperatly from each other. Speaking URLs are very important if you want to rank high in the search engines like Google. The SEO …

Server Error – 32700 Occured part 2
August 23, 2008 – 12:05 pm | Comments Off
Server Error – 32700 Occured part 2

We supposed till now that the error message “Server error -32700 occurred" shows that the Windows Live Writer tried to publish on a corrupted WordPress installation.
But there is another less dangerous possibility, a wrong character …

Windows Live Writer WordPress and the XMLRPC Issue
August 2, 2008 – 4:21 pm | 7 Comments
Windows Live Writer WordPress and the XMLRPC Issue

Sometimes when you try to set up a new blog account with the Windows Live Writer the installation process might be interrupted by an error message:

Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method …

Serendipity and Windows Live Writer
May 29, 2008 – 9:57 pm | Comments Off
Serendipity and Windows Live Writer

The number of blog software which supports the Windows Live Writer is increasing by another blog software, Serendipity. First you need the XML-RPC plugin. Unfortunately the Windows Live Writer doesn’t detect Serendipity even after you …

Problem: Server Error -32700 Occured
January 8, 2008 – 8:14 am | 4 Comments

There was a dangerous problem brought up on Windows Live Writer MSN Group.
Problem:
When you try to publish a post to your blog you are getting this error: “An unexpected error has occured while attempting to …

Tagging with WordPress – tagging console not available
November 10, 2007 – 5:30 pm | Comments Off

The latest release of the Windows Live Writer 2008 supports tagging with WordPress 2.3.1. Tobbi explained it in this post.
In some cases, the tagging console is not available, even with WordPress 2.3.1. To solve this …

WordPress loves the Windows Live Writer
July 15, 2007 – 5:17 pm | Comments Off

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 …

Windows Live Writer – capabilities
July 15, 2007 – 10:10 am | Comments Off

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 …

Windows Live Writer vs. WordPress
June 21, 2007 – 7:51 pm | Comments Off

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 …