Post an entry from Microsoft® live Writer to Quick Blog


 Microsoft® Live writer,  a beta blogging client, makes it easy to compose and edit entries on your desktop to and  from your Quick Blog.  Using the remote blogging feature (paid blog only) and a copy of Live writer which you can obtain for free at this location. The following instructions assume that you have Live Writer on your system.
 
If’ you have already set up “Remote blogging” then you can skip the next paragraph.

Remote blogging can be found under “Manage Blog” > “Settings” and select the “Remote blogging” tab.   Now create a username and password that’s different from your main blog login (we’ll remind you if it’s not) and save these settings.  This user name and password  applies only  to the main blog account. Sub Authors can use their existing log in and password. Your blog is now able to receive and manage posts remotely from Live writer.

Open up Live Writer and under the weblog tab click on “add weblog account”  select  “another weblog service and on the following screen  type in your blog’s web address and your user name password.   Next, select the type of weblog that you are using. In this case, it is   “Custom Metaweblog API”.  Enter in the remote posting URL for your weblog.  This is your Quick Blog’s address plus /metaweblog.aspx appended to it.

Click finish and you are ready to make your first post.  There’s so much more that you can do with Live Writer, which we’ll go into in a further post.

Note: When you first set up Live Writer it posts a test message to your blog, which is then deleted, so that it can import your style sheet. This is normal behavior, though we are looking at ways of tidying this up

Posted by Blogcast Admin at 10/16/2006 3:52 PM
Categories: Tutorials, Power Tips
 

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  • 10/17/2006 3:33 PM Twisted1 wrote:
    I like this so far. A couple questions, not sure if you can answer or not......
    1. How do you get a PermaLink when using MS Live Writer? Or is that what the "Related URL" field in properties is for? If not, what is it?
    2.Since we are very new at this, I know everybody talks about pinging urls when you post... Any suggestions on where to start on this ?
    3. Which of the Desktop applications do you feel is the best to use (Live Writer, Ecto, etc...)?
    1. 10/17/2006 8:30 PM Admin wrote:
      Greetings Tom,

      Thanks for the comments. I'll address the points in the order asked. 

      1)  Many of the features of  Quick Blog, and indeed others, are not covered by the Metaweblog  so there's not always an analog  to the interface within it. The permalink is created within QB at the point the article is first published, you can change it up until that point.  If there's another way we can manage that I'll add to the answer.

      2)  Everypost you make we notify  (ping) many of the blog search engines to update them that you have new content. You can also manually ping sites when you post by filling out the URL's to ping on the bottom right of the Quick Blog write window.

      3)  To be honest , and evasive ,  it really depends on the kind of user you are and the style of blogging you engage in.  I'm personally happy with both and where Ecto's integration of Amazon and I like the styled like your own blog experience of live writer.   I really suggest you try both , they set up quickly and it's a fun afternoons blogging

      Regards

      John
      Quick Blog Team


  • 11/1/2006 5:09 PM Bill wrote:

    I've been working with the Windows Live Writer team and we've found and fixed an issue with Really Simple Discoverability (RSD). Without getting into the nitty gritty details, that fix completely eliminates paragraph four of the entry above!


    In other words, put in your URL and your username/password and you're done! Start your posting.

    Bill


  • 11/13/2006 11:46 AM ben wrote:
    remote blogging is for paid blogs only?!?! ick!
    1. 11/14/2006 6:43 PM Admin wrote:
      Greetings Ben,

      Thanks for your feedback though it's one of those issues that's difficult to address without wondering about where to draw the line between the free/ paid blog.  If our free blog  had all the features of a paid blog you can guess how many of the latter would sell.   For the time being it's a paid only feature though this may  not always be the case.


      Regards
      John
      Quick Blog Team

      1. 11/29/2006 12:27 PM ben wrote:
        thanks.. i understand your point, but if i'm allowed to post to my blog, using the API should be allowed. it's not a paid blog, so i get all those ads - that's the differentiator IMO :-)
  • 2/23/2007 7:11 AM Zenshadow wrote:
    read this post about using Live Writer (Beta) - already had it, fired it up, established connect in 43 seconds (lol) and was off to test it! It's definitely the solution I needed to figuring out 'wrapping' text around an image! I got a solution I'm happy with, regardless of what QB offers (unless 2.0 rocks my world, lol)! Im a Live QB'er as of NOW! Thanks!
    1. 2/23/2007 5:27 PM Admin wrote:
      Greetings,

      Again, it's just like we'd talked. Anyway  I'm glad that Live Writer provided an alternative,  the one I most frequently use myself, to your earlier formatting issues.   While we should be able to accommodate that feature within  our  composer  I'd like to suggest that people use clients such as Live Writer, Ecto or the Performancing plugin if they have the option available to them .   Obviously when we try to rock your 2.0 world  we'd like you to come back and use ours 

      Regards
      John
      Quick Blog Team
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