The Latest, Greatest Windows Live Writer: Beta 2
June 1st, 2007 by M.T.
Just when folks were starting to think Microsoft had stopped development of WLW, Tada! Along comes the Beta 2 version. Among the improvements?
- A snazzier interface: Oooh fades! Color choices! (I’m sooo all about the eye candy)
- Improved linkage: You can easily link to previous posts
- Better image handling: no more funky file names.
- The much-missed MORE tag: It’s called split-post here, but no matter. It works.
- Page authoring: WP users can create/edit pages from within WLW
- Inline spell check: No more clicking a button, it points my errors out as I type them.
- Tables! For years, people have told me to stop coding with tables, and they make it this easy?
And of course my favorite feature is still there: WLW’s ability to show me the post in the actual blog layout, with the CSS styles applied.
I’m liking it. Can you tell?
The new release solves my remaining image upload problems (to WP blogs hosted on my own machine) It solved Soulhuntre’s issues as well, though he notes that he had to delete his existing blog definition, and re-enter it before it worked quite right. Hopefully this release will resolve some of the other issues as well.
You can pick up the new version at http://writer.live.com/
There are new releases of of Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger were also released, so if you use them, hop over and pick those up too.
MindTWEAK: Better tools make better brain!
(ok, not really.. but they do make things simpler.)
- Fix For Problems between Windows Live Writer and Wordpress
- The Latest, Greatest Windows Live Writer: Beta 2
- Update: Windows Live Writer Image Upload Issues
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June 1st, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Thank you for the much needed info and the link for WLW b2. I’m glad your upload problems are solved.
I really like the idea of editing in WLW. It was getting irritating the other way. Oooo and in-line spell check!! I am so excited. 
Have a fantabulous weekend!
June 27th, 2007 at 12:50 am
I agree… Windows Live Writer is pretty good. The only thing is:
“The much-missed MORE tag”
I’m having a problem with it because it inserts a line break and messes up the formatting of the post. Have you noticed that? Do you know of a workaround?
June 27th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Hi LiAM — yep, you’re right. My best solution is to switch to code-view, delete the extra linebreak (it shows up as a blank line, rather than as actual code) and hit publish without resaving the local draft.
Or you can delete the extra line in Wordpress itself - I wind up doing a lot of code clean-up in WP code-view, since I’m prone to using HR tags, which adds in all sorts of extra spaces on the WP side. Pretty lines. Bad habit
Thanks for dropping by