Live Writer Blog

Incompatible: InsertVideo Plugin and Live Writer Wave 3

2008-10-03T17:34:55Z

Scott has confirmed on his blog that the InsertVideo plugin doesn’t work hand in hand with Live Writer Wave 3. According to his statement, the Live Writer team had changed something in the API the plugin uses, so in result you’ll get the following error message.

He hopes that the Live Writer team will resolve the bug in the upcoming release.

Inser IE Favorites

2008-09-23T07:40:56Z

The Insert IE Shortcut plug-in imports your Internet Explorer favorites to the Windows Live Writer.

You can either create your own style or choose one from the predefined themes and then use it as is or modify it as you desire. For people who have a lot of favorites and want to blog items buried deep in the favorites list, there is a start depth option which lets them start from any depth they want.

Link: Insert IE Shortcuts

Windows Live Writer Wave 3 download

2008-09-17T15:08:05Z

Thanks to the LiveSide guys who published this link to the new Windows Live Wave 3 Beta including the new version of the Windows Live Writer.

The Wave 3 suite of application includes:

Windows Live Messenger 9
Windows Live Movie Maker (Vista only)
Windows Live Mail with Calendar synchronization
Windows Live Writer (YEAH!)
Windows Live Photo Gallery
Windows Live Family Safety
Outlook Connector

There are two downloads available just the web installer and an offline installer

Enjoy!

Note: Uninstall previously the CTP or any other Wave3 product

Downloads:

Wlsetup-web.exe 990KB
Wlsetup-all.exe 134 MB

english
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/en/wlsetup-all.exe

italian
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/it/wlsetup-all.exe

german
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/de/wlsetup-all.exe

france
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/fr/wlsetup-all.exe

spanish
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-web.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/es/wlsetup-all.exe

japanese
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/ja/wlsetup-all.exe
http://g.live.com/1rebeta3/ja/wlsetup-web.exe

source: LiveSide

Windows Live Writer Wave 3 – first screenshots

2008-09-06T16:00:20Z

Livesino.net published the first screenshot Windows Live Writer Wave 3. Seams that the Insert Video pluginnow supporting youtube and soapbox upload too.

Update: The guys form LiveSide published another screenshot showing the overview. Seams that there are two new functions in the toolbar, text alignment and character settings.

On the right navigation we can find two new plugins: Insert Events (Windows Live Events?) and Insert Photo Albums

Technical Preview Triggers False Expiration

2008-09-04T07:46:59Z

Users of the Technical Preview might have seen a message in the last days informing that the Windows Live Writer CTP is going to expire.

The WLW team published a statement on Writer Zone.

We have fixed the issue that was causing the false expiration. While the Technical Preview of Writer will not expire on October 1, you may still see this notification again. When you see this notification, click the “Ask Me Later” button and you will be able to continue using Writer without any change.

Maybe we have to wait a little bit more for the new release of the Windows Live Writer.

source: Writer Zone: Technical Preview Triggers False Expiration

30 days: new WLW version?

2008-09-01T23:23:01Z

Seams that a new Windows Live Writer version is coming within 30 days. Users of the actual Windows Live Writer CTP version (14.0.3913.522) get this message today:

via LiveSide

URL2Title Plugin

2008-08-27T07:18:12Z

The URL2Title plugin replaces a pasted URL with the title of the webpage.

Example: Url2Title Plugin for Windows Live Writer - Release: Ver. 1.1 update

You can even suppress the URL2Title plug-in, hit the shift button while you paste the URL to the Windows Live Writer.

Download: Url2Title Plugin for Windows Live Writer

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Imtech - SEO Slugs Plugin

2008-08-26T21:14:05Z

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 Slugs Windows Live Writer Plugin from Imtech helps you to create a slug from any phrase within you blog post by one click.

Select a text
Hit the SEO Slug plugin from the insert panle on the right side
Click on OK
Now hit F2 and press CTRL+V in the Slug field

Normaly the slugs of my post and the titles are the same but in some special cases the seo slug plugin can be very usefull:[rate:4/5]

Download: Tech MOSS Team - Release: Imtech SEO Slugs Live Writer Plugin

[rate:overall]

via mastykarz.nl

Windows Live Writer wish list

2008-08-26T15:56:02Z

The Windows Live Writer Team did a great job and provided us a great blogging tool, the Windows Live Writer. I thought it would be a good idea to start a wish list about function you wish to see in a future release of the Windows Live Writer.

Please make you contribution by using the comment function.

Windows Live Writer Wish List (WLWWL)

Shortcut Editor
Microsoft Word spellcheck

Server Error – 32700 Occured part 2

2008-08-23T10:05:57Z

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 set. If you blog is set for example to UTF-8 and the Windows Live Writer tries to publish with ISO-8859-2 you will get the following error message:

“an unexpected error has occured while attempting to log in: Blog Server Error -32700 Occured parse error. not well formed”

How do you change the character set?

Windows Live Writer auf Tools >> Accounts

Edit >> Advanced

Done.

Thanks to ichsags.de