Offline Blog Editor for WordPress

Writing directly on the WordPress interface can be very time consuming. I realized how much time I wasted in the process of formatting and publishing a blog entry.

The solution, it seems to me, is to write blog locally and publish it with a click of a button. I asked this question on WordPress forum and got a pointer to a few programs:

• Scribefire (my final choice!)
• Gumana (both Mac & Windows)
• BlogJet (not on my wish list because it is non-free)
• Windows Live Writer (someone said “works like a charm”)
• Zoundry Raven (very similar to Windows Live Writer in its functionality)

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Though I am wary of the Microsoft programs in general, Word 2007 is currently the only editor at hand to do this job. Right now I’m writing this post under Word 2007 and I will see how it works. So far I have noticed it lacks the following features:

• No tagging capabilities
• Probably insecure authentication handshake
• No “read more…”
• Can’t schedule a time for a post to be published

I haven’t tinkered with image insertions in Word 2007, but I’ve noticed how much faster to publish a post using a local blog editor!

I will try other local blog editors in the future, preferably a free editor with advanced blog editing features. Stay tuned.