Two Useful Posting Tools Reviewed

Posted by Les Scammell on February 29, 2008
Posted in: Blogging, Reviews, WordPress.

I have come across two very useful tools that could make the development of your posts just that little bit easier. The first is a creation tool and the second a simple photo plugin.

Microsoft Live Writer. Does any one use Live Writer to create their content. Potentially it is a great tool. Create your content on your desktop or laptop, give the polish and feel that WordPress and other publishers don’t do that well, add some photos or images from your desktop and when completed – upload it onto your blog. All very easy, all very straightforward. it even uploads the photos and images and alters the URL in the post so the images load correctly. I really enjoy using it, it has a MS Word feel about it. Installing is easier. The whole process is very smooth. The price is great to – FREE.

There is one downside to Live Writer and that is on my WordPress installation – it doesn’t work. This I know is a problem with WordPress and not Live Writer and that somehow I need to overcome a 403 permission denied error. I just cannot seem to get around it yet. If you don’t have that problem then you will find that Live Writer is a great tool.


Photo Dropper Plugin. The Photo Dropper plugin is one of the most useful plugins around if you want to insert images into your posts. With Photo Dropper, place the cursor where you want the image placed, type in a search keyword and Photo Dropper will search Flickr to find images to match your keywords. As you can see here it has found a picture to match my keyword – when added to your post the attributes are automatically added – just a little untidy for my liking.
Creative Commons License photo credit: mrpbody33

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7 comments on “Two Useful Posting Tools Reviewed”

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  2. I’ve been using LiveWriter for months now and I’m really impressed by it. Its the best of several editors I’ve tried since I’ve been blogging.

  3. On your recommendation downloaded Photo Dropper and used it for the first time tonight.

    The one thing that would make it even better is if you could specify your photos… otherwise… I love it. :)

    Thanks for the tip.

    CB

  6. I just downloaded Live Writer, my interested piqued by your post on it. Thanks. So far looks interesting. Prior to this I wrote in MS Word and copied it to my blog edit window and did the formatting needed to make it look right.

  7. Photo Dropper seems to come in handy to me in future. Too bad it can not be installed in Blogger but still I can use it on few of my WordPress blogs :)

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