Live Writer Plug-Ins

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Sep 17th, 2007 @ 2:07 PM

On September 5th, the Live Writer team offered a new version of the popular blogging tool, Windows Live Writer. The new version, Beta 3, includes several enhancements, including the ability to upload to Picasaweb via Blogger, publish XHTML-style markup, support for 28 new languages, print & print preview for your posts, the ability to justify posts, better image handling, and some other bug fixes. However, one of the best new features is the ability to insert videos directly from Soapbox or the web. To insert a video from YouTube, for example, you just copy and paste the video's URL and Live Writer automatically generates the embed code.

However, some of us crave even more WLW goodness, and this can be achieved through the use of plug-ins for Live Writer. I recently found this list of great Live Writer plugins, which I bookmarked right away. On the list is one of my favorite tools - the "Blog This" browser add-on. "Blog This" lets you quickly post some selected text from the web to your blog. Also making the cut is flick4Writer, which lets you blog your flickr pics to your blog using Writer. Another plug-in, Social Bookmarks, lets you add social bookmarking icons (like digg, del.icio.us, furl, yahoo!) in your blog posts. And then there is the Screen Captures plug in, which inserts a screenshot of a webpage in your blog post. Even more WLW plugins can be found at the very cool site, wlwplugins.com or in the Windows Live Gallery.

Tags: blogging, Windows Live, Windows Live Writer, WLW

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ScissorMonkey

One of the new features I really like is the ability to embed video in your post, on blogs hosted on WordPress.com. Beta 2 had the ability to 'Insert Video' but it did not work for blogs on WordPress.com.

I have used other blog writing tools, but I have found WLW to be the most full featured, stable and cost effective. WLW is an excellent tool for writing blog posts, and the fact that you can download it for free makes it even better.

seba gomez

The one I love is "Paste from Visual Studio"
I love that feature!