4 Alternative WordPress Editors
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Many bloggers get frustrated sometimes when working with the built-in editors of WordPress. The code editor does not provide enough options to make you post look the way you want it and the WYSIWYG-editor can also be annoying in many ways.
But there´s no obligation to use either of them as there are several third-party tools to replace the built-in editors of your WordPress blog. I´d like to introduce 4 of which I have tested and found them better to use.
Windows Live Writer:
This is a FREE standalone application. It includes many features like image handling and also provide WYSIWYG writing. It supports not only WordPress – and Live Spaces of course – but also many other platforms like TypePad or Blogger.
Pplugin this time, but also FREE. If you like WYSIWYG functionality, this is the one for you. I have found no other tool which provides more of them.
Another FREE standalone tool. This is perfect for traveling bloggers as you can write your posts offline with full supprt of all needed functionalities and upload them, when you get back online. Easy to use and even supporting multiple blogs. Very cool.
For the last – another standalone tool for FREE. I like this one the most, because of its side features. BlogDesk lets you handle your technorati tags for your posts as well and even provides image handling including resizing, rotating and image crops.
If you want to use a new editor, this is my recommendation. Give it a try, it´s free.
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Alex you did a great job again. I am glad that there are a couple of good guys like you who add incredible value to my blogging…
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Thanks Mert,
That article is by Marco and his blog is great
I’m accepting guest blogger if you have something to share … everyone has some knowledge they can share with others …
Feel free to contact me if interested.
Alex
The one thing that bothers me is the limited ablility to get your posts with pizazz on WP. They all look so boring. I would like to see something besides just the basics for people who do not know html. I am going to give some of these a try definitely. Do you have to know how to speak German to get them to work?
Oh I just noticed the nice Do Follow links too. Maybe I need to put my website in here. LOL. I will do that once I have a nice shiny pizazzy new post to show off. Is pizazzy a keyword? Thanks for the guest posting on the blogging text editors. Woo Hoo!
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Thanks, I never gave any thought to the editor in WordPress. It is what it is and I just worked with it. This has made my day.
Hi Alex,
Thanks! I would love to contribute your blog. Let me prepare for my best shot, it should be something remarkable.
Take care,
Mert
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@Jeff – sometimes we all discover things we didn’t even pay attention to
@Mert – thanks I sent you email.
Alex
Yep, that is the best option anyway in my opinion
Alex
I’m sold on the stock one in the latest 2.5.1 of WordPress -> it’s simple to drop over to the straight html version, which is much easier for me. Still, the current wysiwyg one doesn’t munge the code as badly as the 2.2.x version did!
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Thanks for sharing.