Windows Live Writer 2008 Technical Preview released
The new Technical Preview of the Windows Live Writer 2008 is available. Besides new several new functions and improves in the user interface there is an new Windows Live Writer API (Version 1.1). The CTP is intended for developers rather than consumers, but the new functions are great and even if I am not a developer but I couldn’t resist installing the new version. My opinion: I love it! There are not big changes which make the program heavier but only little changes which are very useful and intelligent.
What is new in the Windows Live Writer 2008 Technical Preview 06/2008?
- Improved category management: The categories are instant searchable (Microsoft Windows Vista)
- Image cropping
- Word count
- Image alignment: Images can be centered and not only text
- Typografic replacement
- Automatic glossary linking
- Improved User interface
- Soapbox Video Upload
- Improved image publishing
- Lightbox support (lightbox plugin necessary in the blog)
- New image border
- Image tilting
- GIF support
- Check for Updates /Notification
- Writer SDK 1.1 (Scott Lovegrove post an article about the new SDK on Live-Side.net)
Send Feedback
The following resources are available to you for providing feedback to the Writer team:
- For feedback about the Technical Preview, please use our Windows Live Writer (Beta) Forum.
- For feedback about the SDK, please use our Windows Live Writer Developer Forums.
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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 install the plugin, so you have to do it manually.
Add a new blog or if it is the first blog you are adding the window will appear automatically.
Select "Another weblog service"
Enter the url to your weblog, your username and the password
The Windows Live Writer tries now to detect your blog software
Unfortunately it doesn’t detect Serendipity automatically. You have to do it by yourself.
Choose "Movable Type API" as weblog type
In the field below enter http://{full path to Serendipity}/serendipity_xmlrpc.php where you have to enter the url to you weblog without the { }
Finish
Note: If you don’t want to setup an ftp connection and use the Windows Live Writer to upload the photos, just create a folder "WindowsLiveWriter" inside the folder "upload" and give it write rights (666).
New Live Writer Blog
After a long time of inactivity, we relaunched the english Live Writer Blog.
The new Live Writer Blog is based on Wordpress instead of dasBlog. Along with this new base there are numerous of new features. You can rate the plugins we write about also the author of a post about a plugin can rate the plugin. With this, it’s easier for visitors to decide which plugins they want to install and which not.
The Design is now the same as on our german blog (corporate identity ;)).
Enjoy discovering the news Live Writer Blog 
Insert Wikipedia Link
Wikipedia fans this plugin is for you. The insert Wikipedia link plug helps you to insert a Wikipedia Link in your blog post.
There are two ways to insert a link.
- Select a word
- Click on the on the Insert Wikipedia Link in the plugin list
- Done
(you can switch it off in the plugins options)
Other way
No selection just click on the insert Wikipedia Link
Type the text, the plugin will generate the Wikipedia link automatically
Download:
Source code: http://www.codeplex.com/WikipediaPlugin
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ...Imtech find & Replace
The new plugin Imtech Find & Replace for Windows Live Writer by Waldek Mastykarz find and replace regular expressions. You can even use it to search in your source code to replace html tags.
Download: Imtech Find & Replace Live Writer Plugin
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Problem: Server Error -32700 Occured
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 log in: Blog Server Error Server Error -32700 Occured parse error. not well formed”
Solution:
This Problem occures when you use wordpress as your blog software. In fact it is a spam injection to your wordpress installation. This is possible when your wordpress installation or your server isn’t as secure as it should be. Some wordpress files were changed on the server so you getting this error.
To solve this problem, you should replace the files on your server with the original wordpress files of the same version as installed. It looks like the following files are affected:index.php
- xmlrpc.php
- wp-admin/admin.php
- wp-admin/index.php
- wp-includes/wp-db.php
- wp-includes/pluggable.php
- wp-includes/gettext.php
- wp-includes/default-filters.php (critical!)
You also should check your .htaccess file for suspicious redirects and remove them. You have to remove the wp-includes/class-mail.php file. This file does not belong to wordpress and is a security leak.
The server wordpress is installed have to get secure. There is an article on wordpress codex that shows some methods to hardening wordpress.
Further informations:
gordon.dewis.ca
Kakkoi
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Insert Silverlight Plugin
The Silverlight Plugin for Windows Live Writer makes it very easy to insert a silver light video in a blog post. After the installation of the Silverlight Streaming App for Windows Live Writer the plugin is listed on the right side of the plugin list.
You must insert all your credentials from http://silverlight.live.com/. Now you can see all your streaming application and choose the right one. Press ok and then publish the plugin will do the rest.
Download: Insert a Silverlight Streaming application
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...acronyms and abbreviations
To use the HTML-Tags <abbr></abbr> and <acronym></acronym> one had to insert this tags directly in the html code.
“Insert Acronym Tags” is a small plugin which provides a tiny GUI to insert abbreviations or acronyms.
An article about the use and the future of these two tags can be found on SmackTheMouse.com
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Using "box" with Windows Live Writer
For those of you using the online storage web service “box” there is a plugin to link shared files in a blog post very easy.
The installation is very easy thanks to the integrated installer. No other configuration has to be done.
After installation a file can be inserted into a blog post by clicking on the “Insert Box.net File…” link in the sidebar. First you have to login using your box.net account. After you have choosen the file you want to link the plugin creates a hyperlink and inserts it to your blog post.
There is a restriction for hotlinking pictures. To do this you need a premium or pro account. It is restricted by using a free account.
Here’s a little demo that shows a link created by the plugin:
Download Box2LiveWriter Installer
More informations about the plugin, screenshots and how tos are available on the plugins Codeplex site.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Tagging with Wordpress – tagging console not available
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 problem you have to add a simple code line between <head> and </head> in your Wordpress theme.
<link rel=”wlwmanifest” type=”application/wlwmanifest+xml” href=”http://www.domain.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml” />
After this little step the tagging console will be available in the Windows Live Writer 2008
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