Windows Live Writer Enable WordPress Remote Publishing

If you want to use Windows Live Writer with WordPress you've to enable the remote publishing option in the WordPress Settings » Writing.

Look for the option to enable ATOM publishing and XML-RPC.

You only need the XML-RPC option…

Windows Live Writer: Bit.ly Tweeter

There’s a new plug-in for Windows Live Writer; which is nice because it’s something I believe should’ve been offered natively with Windows Live Writer, but that’s why you've guys writing plug-ins.

This one is another Twitter plug-in for Windows Live Writer, but it does you a favor by shortening the URL’s as they’re posted, using Bit.ly.

This plug-in is very small at 28k and seems to work as intended.

BUG: Windows Live Writer 2011 - Auto-Linking

This is an example of a bug in Windows Live Writer. Basically, if you create an auto link in Windows Live Writer and don’t include the http:// in the path for the auto link, Windows Live Writer creates a faulty hyper-link in the blog.

And as everyone should know, having a bunch of faulty links on your website will lower you ranking with Google; so you want to avoid that.

I’ve a video of how this problem comes about.

Windows Live Writer New plug-ins site - how to search it.

The new Windows Live Writer plug-ins site is horrible; it’s an insult to any kind of forward thinking, and one of the stupidest things is that they removed the ability to SEARCH the plug-ins gallery.

At least in the old gallery you could search for keywords; you can’t with the new one.

You can now- with Google.

How to Schedule Posts with Windows Live Writer 2011

If your one of those bloggers that blog in advance and want to schedule you posts out in the future at some point; you can do that with Windows Live Writer— it’s built right in to the application. Another one of the applications great feature set.

You can do this really easy, just start blogging as you normally would. As you complete the post/blog just take a look in the top right-hand corner…