Update: Windows Live Writer Image Upload Issues

For those of you following the Live Writer/Wordpress image upload saga….

My inside sources (ooooh wow. I have inside sources. I’ll earn that geek-girl propeller beanie yet. Wait. What was I saying? Maybe I better start over. Sorry about that) Ahem.

Inside sources say that the tech folks over at Microsoft put their heads together with the tech folks over at Eighty-Out.com, and.. Tada!

They found the underlying problem between Wordpress and Windows Live Writer. It’s something about xmlpwhatever and image size and extra carriage returns and… ok, it went over my head.

The good news is they found the problem, and it will be fixed in the next release.

The bad news is you’re still stuck with the problem for now.

As for workarounds? Try these.

• Use WLW’s built in FTP upload function.
• Upload the images to your site using WordpPress’s built in image function, or an FTP program, then use WLW’s “Insert picture from the web” function.
• Upload the images to one of the photo sharing sites (Like Photobucket or Flickr) and use WLW’s “Insert picture from the web” function)

Meanwhile, we anxiously await the next release : )