Ever since Windows Live Writer was released, I’m using it to blog. I really like the program and the opportunity the SDK gives to create add-ons for Writer. I installed a couple of them, but Tag4Writer and Flickr4Writer are the ones I use most.
Today the Writer team released an update, and it has enough in there to upgrade. And if you blog, but haven’t tested it yet, it’s definitely worth a try. Here are the main updates:
- Tagging support
- Support for Blogger Beta
- Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog
- Improved startup performance
- Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported
- Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected
- Title attribute in Insert Link dialog
- Custom date support for Community Server
- Improved keyboard shortcuts for switching views
- Change spell-check shortcut key to F7
- Add ‘png’ to insert image dialog file type filter
- More robust image posting to Live Spaces
- Improved style detection for blogs
- Fixed issues with pasting URLs and links
- Remember last window size and position when opening a new post
- Open post dialog retrieves more than 25 old posts
The Windows Live Gallery now also holds a category for Live Writer plugins so find them there, upload the ones you created.
Find more on Writer at JJ Allaire’s blog.
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