Do you manage one or more blogs? While blogging is fun, managing multiple blogs can become tedious. Not only do you need to regularly post content, each blog has its own login credentials to remember. If you use several different platforms such as WordPress and Blogger, you also have several different Web sites to access just to post your thoughts. If you’re looking for a better way to manage your blog posts, Windows Live Writer is it.
Windows Live Writer is one of the free programs offered by Microsoft in its Windows Live Essentials package. At first glance, it looks like a basic word processing program. You may be tempted to discount Windows Live Writer due to this. After all, you already have a more powerful word processor, right? Before you discount the program, take a deeper look. Yes, it has word processing features; however, it isn’t designed to be a word processor but rather a publishing tool.
Manage Multiple Blogs
Instead of signing into multiple blog sites and posting your content online, use Windows Live Writer to write your content and then publish it directly to your selected blog once you are happy with your draft. Windows Live Writer also allows you to set up multiple blog accounts. Once set up, Windows Live Writer communicates with your online blog, incorporating theme elements into your posts as well as allowing you to preview your posts with your current settings. For example, if your blog’s theme uses Heading 2 for all blog post titles, whenever you use Windows Live Writer to create content for that blog, Heading 2 will be pre-assigned for your post’s title.
A dropdown box in the upper right corner of the screen makes it easy to select the blog that you want to work with. Once selected, simply begin writing your blog post. Should you change your mind and decide the blog post is better suited to one of your other blogs, simply select the appropriate blog from the dropdown box and your text will be formatted for the new blog selection automatically.
After creating the blog’s content, add categories and tags and run the built-in spellchecker. As soon as you’re ready to publish the blog post, click the Publish button and your blog entry will be immediately posted to your blog!
Schedule Future Posts
At the bottom right corner, Windows Live Writer features blog scheduling which allows you to create a blog post ahead of time and publish it at a later date. This is a terrific way to ensure that you are regularly updating your blog with content. For example, at the beginning of each month you could create a series of blog entries and then schedule them for automatic publishing throughout the month.
Access Your Content Offline
Another benefit of using Windows Live Writer is that you have easy access to all of your blog posts via a folder (called My Weblog Posts in the My Documents folder) on your computer. As time goes by, you may want to revive some of your older posts or repurpose them for other uses. Since they are easily accessed via this folder on your computer, you can quickly retrieve the content and revise it to match your current needs.
At first glance, Windows Live Writer is a simple program. The more you use it, the more you will love how simple this program makes managing blog posts and multiple blogs.
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This is a guest post by Dee from ForeverGeek.com.
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While I used to write XHTML, CSS, create some sites, etc… I admit to being rather out of the loop when it comes to all the blogging and such. I have Windows Live Writer but have no idea how to use it. The most I can figure on blogs, is they used to be small websites for a more personal reason, for others to post whatever about whatever. Obviously they are more like mini sites now and the difference it seems to me is very slim from what is a blog or a site. So onto the Writer, I have been thinking about putting up a blog for the last few months, getting into it a bit, problem is, I don’t know what topic or news I would write, simply, it’s all been done to a certain degree. Either way, I have heard good things about WLW and seeing this article on it makes me a bit more curious as to how well it works. I think I may in fact give it a go :) I did have a blog through Google at one time, but I didn’t have to write anything, it was a tut for Gimp beginners and all I had to do was type text but it wasn’t very versitile either. I don’t use Google for anything anymore and won’t but will definitely be looking into creating a blog elsewhere. Thanks for the write up on WLW, now I may actually find a use for it, lol.
Glad to hear your thoughts about WLM and blogging as well. May be till you figure out what you want to write about, why not give guest blogging a thought.
Its just a thought? If you are interested i would like you to write something here on Avinashtech as Guest author. Mail me if you are interested.
I tried and compared a lot of free offline blog editors, no other blog editor is as simple and effective as Windows Live Writer. The user interface of WLW is so simple and not confusing. But what I feel bad is that it can’t be used on Linux! Ya, even with Wine… Another good offline blog editor that I wanna put next to WLW is Scribefire. It is a firefox plugin and does a very good job. Thanks for this article.
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I am big fan of WLW,it is an amazing tool to write blog posts remotely without login to wp-admin and other features.thanks for the post.
Nice tip… :)
I am still to use it extensively. I am still using the Wordpress control panel for writing.
Live Writer is a Boon for Bloggers!
Nice share
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Looks like it would be helpful if someone has multiple blogs in similar niches.
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I use windows live writer right from the days i started blogging. And whats more i have made a portable version of it too! Its such a great tool.
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