Thanks to LiveSide and Chrilio who has posted the direct download link to the new Windows Live Essentials 2011 Beta refresh version (build 15.4.3001.0809).
This new version of the suite, incorporates new icons, new features, many …
Read the full story »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 …
Description: On WordPress 2.1+ and PHP versions older than 5.0.2, publishing posts using Writer results in non-ASCII characters showing up as either squares or question marks.
Reason and Solution: Writer erroneously prepends the UTF-8 Byte Order …
Description: On blogs running PHP 5.2.2, trying to configure the blog in Writer gives the following error: Invalid Server Response – The response to the blogger.getUsersBlog method received from the weblog server was invalid. / …
Description: Blogs with the Bad Behavior plugin installed cannot be used with Windows Live Writer. Attempting to add the blog to Windows Live Writer results in a “403 (Forbidden)” error dialog.
Reason and Solution: See this …
Description: Weblog is configured to use non-UTF-8 encoding. Attempt to post results in error message “Blog Server Error. Parse error. Not well formed”. Posts from the web UI are fine.
Reason and Solution: PHP’s XML parser …
Description: When attempting to publish a post that contains images, you get a dialog that starts with “The following images cannot be published because the weblog does not support image publishing.” (Also affects Writer Beta …
