Category: Weblog Tools
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Whatever Happened to Offline Blog Editors?
There was a time when blogging tools weren’t just about writing in a web browser. Fifteen years ago, the landscape of third-party blog editors was full of promise. Programs like Ecto, BlogJet, Qumana, and BlogDesk gave bloggers using the Windows…
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Delicious: Preserving a big piece of social web history
Bookmarking interesting content you encounter on your travels around the web is very much a second-nature act these days. See and save it now, read or share it later. It wasn’t always as easy as that until Delicious came on…
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How to make your blog a secure and trusted place
If you run a self-hosted blog – like WordPress, for instance – now’s the time to enhance your confidence and that of your visitors and community in its security and trust. While this is mostly about data security, it’s also about…
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Open Live Writer: a successor to Windows Live Writer
One of the most useful software programs to come out of Microsoft in the past decade is Windows Live Writer, what I consider to be the best offline blogging editor for Windows. WLW first appeared in 2006, but since the…
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Developing peace of mind with WordPress plugins
Whenever a new release of the WordPress content management system comes out, I’m usually on it immediately, updating all my sites running WordPress to that latest version. But not this time. Not yet. Version 4.4 of WordPress was released on…