Make editing in WordPress easier!
WordPress is, in my humble opinion, a great blogging platform. With all the various plugins available, it is extremely adaptable. And it is pretty easy to install as well. On the other hand, unfortunately the power of WordPress is somewhat counter balanced by the fact that it is pretty unfriendly in a number of ways.
One problem, which many people have commented on in blogs and discussions, is how slow and bad the editor in WordPress is. Even after installing a number of plugins designed to reduce the problem, editing with WordPress is still bad (at best). If, like me, you are used to the ease of Dreamweaver, or some similar program, when you are editing web pages, you will be extremely annoyed. The amount of control you have over the look of your pages is pretty small, and the HTML you can use is limited. So editing with WordPress is really annoying.
However, browsing the online discussions about this, I got lucky. Deep down in a thread, I found a reference to Live Writer, a little known Microsoft Windows program. This program is a gold mine for people that write blogs. It solves most of the problems in WordPress editing, and makes it much less annoying. The program downloads the CSS from the blog you use, and allows you to write, edit, insert pictures, videos and other stuff more or less with the same ease as you are used to from ordinary word processing. And you can insert and edit tables, work with layout, and spell check as well! Then, when you are done, you can preview to see how it will look online in your blog, you can save locally and come back to it later, or publish on-line. You can even download already published stuff and revise it!
This is a marvelous tool You can download it from the Windows Live site for free! However, it will not eliminate all your problems with WordPress, as the interface for adding such stuff as Google Adsense ads, Amazon-content, and other special things you will want in your blog, does not work well enough (at least not yet). So I use LiveWriter for my drafts, and then I post them, and afterwards I do a little markup using HMTL from within my WordPress blog. But even if it’s not perfect, it certainly has made writing my blog a breeze compared to earlier. You should check it out!
Do any of my readers have other great tips for making then editing of WordPress blogs easier?
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