Windows Live Writer is a desktop blog-publishing application developed by Microsoft.
Windows Live Writer is a desktop blog-publishing application developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Live Essentials suite of products.
Questions tagged [windows-live-writer]
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Is there a way to use markdown in Microsoft Live Writer?
I love the coding that Super User and all of the other StackExchange sites uses for editing/created questions and answers... markdown. It's easy to use. I'm wondering if there is a way to enable the use of markdown with Live Writer? Is there a…
James Mertz
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How do I add captions to a picture in windows live writer?
I just started to use Windows Live Writer and love the interface especially with the drag and drop pictures. However I cannot seem to be able to add captions below the images... How do I do this? Is there a plugin for that or am I just missing the…
James Mertz
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How to set the blog post's slug in Windows Live Writer 2011?
I am trying to set my own slug text for a blog post in Windows Live Writer 2011 and I am unable to find how to do it.
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Windows Live Writer and LaTeX
I am looking for a way to integrate a WordPress latex plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latex/
and Windows Live Writer, so that LaTeX would render in real time in Windows Live Writer.
Any other ways to integrate LaTeX and WLW?
Praetoria
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Equivalent to Windows Live Writer for Linux?
Is there any Linux equivalent to Windows Live Writer? I've got the Wordpress for iPhone app on my iPod and Windows Live Writer on Windows. These programs are much easier for stuff such as adding images than the web interface. Is there a similar…
Macha
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How to prevent Live Writer from messing up
I am trying out Windows Live Writer, and it seems to be pretty cool. But, how can I prevent it from encoding characters between
tags when switching between Edit and Source?
Is there a code plug-in that is compatible with the WordPress…
Svish
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Can Windows Live Writer 2011 be configured to accept self-signed SSL certificates?
I'd like to use Windows Live Writer 2011 with a blog that is configured to use self-signed SSL certificates. Unfortunately when connecting to the blog Windows Live Writer 2010 refuses to connect to such an "insecure" server. There is no option to…
senf
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How to restore Windows Live Writer settings?
I copied the contents of my hard drive (which had WinXP istalled) elsewhere, wiped it clean and installed Windows 7.
One thing I forgot is the UserID/Passwords to all the blogs I've setup in Windows Live Writer. Is it possible to go through the…
AngryHacker
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Duplicate posts in BlogEngine.NET when using Windows Live Writer
I'm always getting duplicate posts when I publish a new post from Windows Live Writer to my instance of BlogEngine.NET. What can be the reason for this? Is it a bug or something wrong with my configuration perhaps? Any help diagnosing this would be…
Manga Lee
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How to fix Windows Live Writer 2012 Url Names?
I have am using Blog Engine 2.8 with Windows Live Writer. I noticed when publish a post I get a url like this
http://www.example.com/post/2013/06/28/.aspx
but when I use Blog Engines post area I get a url like…
chobo2
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Is there an up-to-date "Blog this in windows live writer" in any of the modern browsers?
I want to select text (and images) in the browser, right click, and have it added to my blog post draft in windows live writer?
The one I could find seems to be for old versions of Firefox (10 versions behind).
Joe
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Windows Live Writer: surrounding selected text with a tag?
When using Windows Live Writer, I'd like to be able to select text and press a key combination to surround it with a given tags (like Ctrl-B surrounds it with tags). The one I specifically want to do is either
or . Is there some way…
cletus
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Keyboard shortcut to set tags
Is there a way, via the keyboard, to access the tags box? I can find it for my life. E.g. I have tried alt + and ctrl + and tabing for ever. How do I set a tag?
Shaun Luttin
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How can I open/convert a .wpostx file?
Someone just sent me a .wpostx file and told me it was a photo. I found a reference to it being a Windows Live Writer format but I can't figure out how to open it there. Any other ideas?
parsley72
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BAD GATEWAY 502 Error from Windows Live Writer
Using Windows Live Writer, I've been updating my blog (link in profile if you're interested - I won't spam it here), which runs Wordpress 3.6.1 on Debian Wheezy 7.1. I had ensured that /var/lib/php5 has 1775 permissions on the server, and gracefully…
Canadian Luke
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