Windows Live Writer = Love / Hate
Microsoft, you either love them or hate them or both. For me it is both.
They create Windows Live Writer which is one of the best Desktop Blog Editors that I have used but they have terrible support for it.
The issues that I am having is that I cannot upload images via xmlrpc due to some change either at the WordPress.com level or the WLR level.
The terrible support stems from the fact that I cannot find a search box anywhere in the forum for Windows Live Writer. What kind of forum is this? I mean it is probably just user error (me) but the usability of the forum just sucks.
Anyway the biggest thing that I love about WLR is the way that it handles images except with WP.com.
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Mike,
Thanks for the comment. I am really glad to see that you guys are out there trying to see how people are using WLR. It honestly restores more confidence in using it.
I will shooting you an email shortly.
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Hey Dan,
Sorry to hear you’re having issues publishes images to Wordpress from Windows Live Writer.
I’m a tester on the Windows Live Writer team. I should apologize for the forum as well. It does not have a search box. It’s as painful for us as it is for you. We want to get a better forum for support in the future, but that’s the best we can do for now.
You should have my email address because I had to enter it to make a comment. Please email me directly with some more specific information on the exact problem you are having uploading images to Wordpress and I will look into it, then get back to you with what I found and workarounds, fixes, etc.
Thanks,
Mike Munroe
Windows Live Writer team