How-To Live Writer

We read many posts where the author has pasted content from Word online, if you are a Windows user there is a free product that you can use to get your content online with one click. 

If you have windows vista or later then the product may already be installed have a look for Windows Live in your program list, if it is not there then Download it Here:

Like many other programs it will suggest other products, just take a look and de-select any you do not want to install.

When you run Live Writer you need to setup your blogging account, you can setup as many as you want once you have installed the first blog, that means you can manage several blogs at the same time, and give other users a way to publish their work without logging onto the blobs admin area.

On the first screen choose the last option for Blogger or WordPress .

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Next: enter the website address of your blog, username and password, if you are not on a shared computer you can select to save the logon details.

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That is it Live Writer will try to logon to your blog and setup the blog account in Live Writer.

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If you would like a what you see is what you get look in Live Writer, you can let the software create a temporary post in your blog, so it can retrieve the style.

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Next Live Writer will download the theme, this will not work on all themes but it would not stop you using Live Writer for posting.

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Give your Blog a friendly name and select finish.

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That is it you are ready to review a post by selecting the Open > More folder on the right and downloading a post for editing, you can create a new page or Post from the main menu, when you insert an image you can choose margins, size, style etc: and save these settings as default.

There are a number of different options for inserting components into your post on the right hand panel.

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When you have finished your content, Create or select the Categories and tags, you can also set the publish date, then hit the publish option on the main menu.

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7 thoughts on “How-To Live Writer

  1. Being a Mac user I’m not familiar with Live Writer but several of my clients do and they swear by it. One thing I have found it that they always inadvertently add a blank line   at the beginning of each post. I don’t know if it is something they haven’t set up properly or a problem with Live Writer. Anyway, great post I’ll put one of my clients onto it the next time they want to use Live Writer.

  2. Being a Mac user I’m not familiar with Live Writer but several of my clients do and they swear by it. One thing I have found it that they always inadvertently add a blank line   at the beginning of each post. I don’t know if it is something they haven’t set up properly or a problem with Live Writer. Anyway, great post I’ll put one of my clients onto it the next time they want to use Live Writer.

  3. Hi David,

    Great site, if I was a license holder of Artisteer already I’d buy one through here. Anyway, I think Live Writer is absolutely incredible — and the plug-ins but ScribeFire I also find useful.

    I’ll check out Blog Desk.

  4. Hi David,

    Great site, if I was a license holder of Artisteer already I’d buy one through here. Anyway, I think Live Writer is absolutely incredible — and the plug-ins but ScribeFire I also find useful.

    I’ll check out Blog Desk.

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