Comments on: Ecto sucks, MarsEdit FTW!…

By: Chris Murphy

Chris Murphy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:23:27 +0000

Finding a good desktop blogging client is a pain in the ass. I've only just found WindowsLiveWriter, but that won't really do you any good since you're on a mac -- the mac applications I've seen are all claiming to be the best Swiss Army Knife of blogging clients. I'm tempted to write a WordPress specific client once the Leopard SDK becomes available.

By: Mostly Lisa

Mostly Lisa — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:58:06 +0000

ok i'll give MarsEdit a go. I'm so paranoid of losing posts now, I write them all in textedit first. This means I have to do all the html mark-up myself. It's good for learning, but seems to make writing a long post such a chore.

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By: Christina

Christina — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:41:29 +0000

Thanks a lot Adriaan, I feel compelled to give it another try.

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:22 +0000

Actually, ecto uses a plugin tailored for WordPress. It's just that I expected WordPress to implement support for mt-tags sooner in their xmlrpc. Oh, btw, summary = excerpt.

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:45:46 +0000

Adriaan, Thanks for the information! I am also playing around with MovableType for another project, so it might end up being that MarsEdit is best for WordPress and Ecto might be better for MT. Thanks for the workaround.

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:42:45 +0000

ecto will send the tags to WP, but since WP doesn’t support mt-tags in the xmlrpc you need to configure ecto a bit more. See http://infinite-sushi.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=201

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:19:51 +0000

Thanks Daniel! I think you have really done an amazing job with the program and I appreciate your openness to feedback.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:02:14 +0000

I really appreciated reading this objective description of what MarsEdit is doing right and wrong. I was especially interested to learn how important the visual icons for bolding/etc are to you. Great to get this kind of feedback! I'll definitely be thinking about this as I developer MarsEdit further.

Daniel Jalkut Red Sweater Software