Windows Live Writer.

This blog is written using windows Live Writer. I was wondering how does it connect to the word press. I had to give http://vidyapith.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php at the end to connect to this blog. It picked the background them of the blog. Divided the theme into the title section (header) and body section. Overall its like composing the blog from a word document directly with the blog theme at the background. There are a lot of options to insert Hyperlink, picture, photo album, table, maps, tags, video etc. Also we can add a plugin available at http://plugins.live.com/writer/browse?orderby=featured&page=1

I heard windows live writer mainly can be installed in Windows7 Operating system. But I did install windows live writer for Windows XP.

Open an existing blog for editing.

Click the “Open” button to open the posts for editing available in the blog, for eg., Choose the name of the blog “vidyapith” in the left panel and will display all the posts published so far. Choose anyone of the posts and it will open a word like interface with the background theme of the blog for editing.

Save Draft

After opening the posts for editing, add more content or edit the content in it. After a while if you feel still the post is not ready for published then save the posts as draft by clicking on the “Save draft”. There are three options available in Save Draft. 1. “Save Local Draft” 2. “Post Draft to a blog” 3. “Post Draft and edit online”

Save Local Draft : Will save the draft locally (I assume it must be in the desktop)

Post Draft to a blog : It will save the draft in the blog providers space in this case. vidyapith.wordpress.com. Whenever you open the posts online for editing, you can find it in the drafts section.

Posts Draft and edit online : Will save the draft online within the wordpress or any other blog provider account supported by Live writer and open the draft for editing online. It is similar to the way that you had composed earlier through the wordpress.