Windows Live Writer 2011: How to Remove plug-ins

Windows Live Writer remove plug-ins logoNo doubt Windows Live Writer is a great blogging tool; there’s nothing that compares to it, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best it could be. That’s why Windows Live Writer has plug-ins.

Windows Live Writer dev team relies on the zealous programmers out there to finish the ‘finish’ work on Windows Live Writer to make it better.

Browsing through the ole gallery used to be useful with ratings, comments and screenshots, but since Microsoft Windows Live dev team decided that blog users didn’t need to see that stuff— it’s now more important to be able to remove those plug-ins when they’re crap, don’t work or just don’t do the job.

Windows Live Writer: Where’s the requirement for Internet Explorer

imageOne of the more irritating things about Windows Live Writer, but not in a total way, is the requirement for Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer is a plethora of problems just waiting to happen.

Its struggles in the past with standards and its security issues make it very troubling; knowing you have to work with it, but on the same token, Windows Live Writer has such a great dependence to it.

And how much does that play in to in the fact some themes from WordPress don’t get detected correctly?

How to setup Windows Live Writer with TypePad

imageThis post is for setting up Windows Live Writer with TypePad and Windows Live Writer 2011 [or previous].

This process should take all of 5 minutes.

This post also assumes you already have Windows Live Writer installed on you machine and are currently using to publish with other blogs.

You should always use the current version of Windows Live Writer [where possible]. I know there’s other that prefer the old version, but Microsoft is only going to move forward, so…

How to setup Windows Live Writer with Blogger

yr14g2vaSeems like of the more popular questions in the Windows Live Writer forum is the question/issue of not getting Windows Live Writer to work with a BLOGGER account.

I don’t really understand why, it’s actually quite easy, but I figured I would put something out here and see if it actually helps anyone.Rolling on the floor laughing

Strikethrough not working with WordPress - how to

3ikxhkwmWordPress no longer supports the strikethrough option and Windows Live Writer has the option to strikethrough, but when it’s published the strikethrough doesn’t appear.

This is because WordPress is changing the code on the fly to remove it. You need to enter proper /current HTML code to have it work correctly.

To account for this you've to use a plug-in to make the adjustment manually.

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