Comments on: Using A Blog Editor

By: Claire Thompson

Claire Thompson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:04:29 +0000

Hi Phil, thanks for sharing your experience with ScribeFire. It sounds like it has some good features. Does it deal well with images?

By: pmacoun

pmacoun — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:11:41 +0000

Hi Claire,

My absolute favourite way to post to my blog is using the ScribeFire plugin for Firefox. All you have to do is hit F8 and a great word processing window pops up in the bottom half of the browser. It keeps all the formatting and you can add tags. I really like being able to read a blog post that sparked some thoughts and also write about it all in the same window. Another great feature is that you can highlight a URL and hit the hyperlink button and it will automatically put the URL in for you. This makes adding hyperlinks really easy.

By: Claire Thompson

Claire Thompson — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:53:58 +0000

@Louise, you just choose the Share button, select publish as a web page and then blog settings–once the settings are configured you can select ‘post to blog’. Unfortunately I haven’t found a way to get it to post with a title and tags. It is a convenient way to have a back up of your blog post though.

@Sue, thanks for the suggestion of Windows Live Writer, I’ll have to give it a look-see.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:47:34 +0000

Glad my posts helped you.

Nowadays I blog always from my dashboard but I have also posted from my iphone using WordPress for iPhone. I used to use Windows Live Writer which was quite good and that works on your desktop – you might like to give that a try?

By: Louise Maine

Louise Maine — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:19:23 +0000

I love to write in google docs and did not realize I could post to blogs. Will have to try that on my next post! I usually use my blog editor and definitely agree about not using word first.