Archive for February, 2010

How To Use Windows Live Writer To Post On Your Wordpress Blog

I have been blogging since 2008 and the worst part of blogging that I found was blog posting. The way I did all these years was, I write my articles in Open Office writer, copy and paste to note pad and then copy and paste into my blog. That’s lot of work to me at least, but I had no choice and had to do it that way.

While searching for better way, I found Windows Live Writer, a free software from Microsoft for writing and posting blog posts. I immediately downloaded, installed and started using it. I love the way it works, no more copy and pasting plus Windows Live writer comes with lots of helpful tools to format your blog posts, pictures, and videos. Here is how to install and connect Windows Live writer with your Wordpress blog:

First you need to download Windows Live writer and install it on your computer. Here is the link to download “Windows Live Writer”

Once installed follow these simple steps to connect your blog to Windows Live writer:

1. Log into your blog as you normally do by typing http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/index.php in you browser.
2. Once you logged into your dashboard, click “writing” under “settings”
3. Check mark XML-RPC in “remote publishing” this will enable Wordpress publishing protocol.
4. Open your Windows Live Writer
5. Select “other blog service” under “what blog services do you use”
6. Type your blog address,  username and password that you use to login to your admin panel
7. Once you click next, Windows Live Writer will find and save your blog to your desktop.
8. Congratulation you are ready to post on your blog using Windows Live Writer.

I hope this helps and if you have any question or suggestion please leave a comment below.