Comments on The Book Vixen - A Romance Book Blog: What is Windows Live Writer and How to Use It {Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge}

Bummer! Have you tried uninstalling and re-install...

2014-03-30T20:18:42.842-07:00

Bummer! Have you tried uninstalling and re-installing the plug-in? If that doesn't work, you could use IFTTT to tweet your posts. Here's my tutorial on IFTTT: http://www.thebookvixen.com/2013/09/bloggiesta-mini-challenge-how-to-use.html

If you have Parallels you should be able to run WL...

2014-03-30T20:14:12.126-07:00

If you have Parallels you should be able to run WLW (from what I've read online). That sucks about not being able to preview your posts in Blogger. WLW will definitely let you do that.

Yay! Hope you find it as useful as I have.

2014-03-30T20:12:43.782-07:00

Yay! Hope you find it as useful as I have.

I did Jacinda's mini-challenge years ago and h...

2014-03-30T12:55:42.931-07:00

I did Jacinda's mini-challenge years ago and have been using WLW ever since! The only problem I have is that the Twitter plugin I was using stopped working and no one has fixed it.

Your mini challenge was so great I had to try out ...

2014-03-30T03:34:05.573-07:00

Your mini challenge was so great I had to try out everything!!! I'm soooooo glad you told me about Windows Live Writer.
My update post link: http://wp.me/p3lbM9-d6

Bummer.. I have a MAC. I do have Parallels (for v...

2014-03-29T21:32:54.985-07:00

Bummer.. I have a MAC. I do have Parallels (for video games of course) so I am going to mess around and see if this works. I am unable to preview posts on Blogger anymore. It screwed up a while back and writing to Blogger for help is like talking to the wall. So I need a new program!

Angie
My Bloggiesta Goals and Challenges

Awesome this is something I have been looking for!...

2014-03-29T01:50:23.016-07:00

Awesome this is something I have been looking for!!

Awesome! I am jealous that WP has built in templat...

2014-03-28T16:21:05.957-07:00

Awesome! I am jealous that WP has built in templates but at least WLW does it too.

You could try using the Picasa plug-in. It does ta...

2014-03-28T16:19:56.120-07:00

You could try using the Picasa plug-in. It does take a bit to load your album but you can insert pictures directly into WLW without having to open up your internet browser. Maybe that would prevent duplicate images being uploaded?

I'm going to play a little more with this, but...

2014-03-28T15:54:11.982-07:00

I'm going to play a little more with this, but I set it all up and saved a draft to work on, we already have templates saved on Wordpress for our memes, but I'm definitely going to play around with this for readathon or even posts.

I've been using WLW for about two years - I le...

2014-03-27T12:07:32.815-07:00

I've been using WLW for about two years - I learned about it in one of the previous Bloggiestas and I can't imagine ever blogging without it again. (The worst was when my computer crashed and I temporarily had to use Blogger interface.

The only thing that bothers me with WLW is that if you have an image in your post, which I usually do, it reuploads the image every time you edit & republish the post, and since Blogger saves those images to a WLW album in picassa, there is a bunch of the same ones in there. I wish MS updated WLW so it remembered when it already uploaded an image. But still, it's a minor issue, all I had to do about it was set the WLW album to private and that's it.

The pros definitely outweigh the cons.

I'm glad you learned something new :) I even ...

2014-03-27T08:55:59.867-07:00

I'm glad you learned something new :)

I even learned some new things when I was working on this post! I learned how to easily add rel="nofollow" tags, which I was manually adding in the Source tab. I also learned how to crop an image within the post.

I love how you played around with everything!

2014-03-27T08:53:21.804-07:00

I love how you played around with everything!

Awesome! And I like how you add your review-writin...

2014-03-27T08:50:27.806-07:00

Awesome! And I like how you add your review-writing-playlist to your reviews!

Looks great!

2014-03-27T08:48:56.919-07:00

Looks great!

I've been using WLW since Jacinda's post. ...

2014-03-27T07:05:01.193-07:00

I've been using WLW since Jacinda's post. It has saved my blogging sanity. (I do have a Mac so I use it with Parallels)

I learned a few new things from this post though. Thanks!

I also watermarked the template I made that will a...

2014-03-27T06:23:32.883-07:00

I also watermarked the template I made that will appear in the Bloggiesta Spring 2014 post

Awesome, awesome awesome!!!! I just love the new t...

2014-03-27T06:15:13.625-07:00

Awesome, awesome awesome!!!! I just love the new toy!
I downloaded
- WLW,
- wrote my signup post,
- downloaded the Dynamic Template Plugin and
- the Word Count plugin
- Extras:
--added image
--list with bullet points
--image hyperlinked
--block quoted twitter party schedule
-- made a new template with Dynamic Template (will publish in updated blog post)

Yay, I got it working and I love it. Wrote a revie...

2014-03-27T05:44:49.450-07:00

Yay, I got it working and I love it. Wrote a review with it last night just to get some touch to it. Also made some templates ready for weekly memes I participate in, and downloaded the tagging plug-in since cleaning up tags was one of my goals of the bloggiesta list.

The review I wrote with WLW can be found from here: http://readdbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/being-sloane-jabobs-by-lauren-morrill.html

So i downloaded WLW, Made 2 templates, Posted my B...

2014-03-26T21:06:07.583-07:00

So i downloaded WLW, Made 2 templates, Posted my Bloggiesta Start-up post using WLW.
Thanks for the tips :)

Ashley
http://books-4-review.blogspot.com/2014/03/bloggiesta-starting-line.html

Not sure I understand what you're asking. Are ...

2014-03-26T17:02:31.720-07:00

Not sure I understand what you're asking. Are you referring to before you create a template? Or before using a template you've already created? Or something else?

It really will making composing and formatting blo...

2014-03-26T17:01:08.815-07:00

It really will making composing and formatting blog posts so much easier! Let me know if you have any questions when you get it up and running.

Yeah, the only way you can use WLW on a Mac is if ...

2014-03-26T17:00:26.348-07:00

Yeah, the only way you can use WLW on a Mac is if you are running Parallels. Sorry :/

So I should probably get the screenshot of the tem...

2014-03-26T15:44:46.450-07:00

So I should probably get the screenshot of the template before I actually do the post?

This is wonderful - I've been looking for a pr...

2014-03-26T13:07:03.555-07:00

This is wonderful - I've been looking for a program like this for a while and this looks really good. Just downloaded it and I'll definitely do my bloggiesta posts with this one :)