MarsEdit includes an editing feature that I have begged other text editors to include: a “typewriter scrolling” mode that acts as if you have a piece of paper in which the currently active line is always vertically centered in the editor window. Then you simply select text, click the MarsEdit button in the toolbar, and MarsEdit uses a template that you can modify to pull in the page title, URL, and selected text. This requires installing a Safari extension-and remember to quit both MarsEdit and Safari and launch them again after installing.
MARSEDIT WINDOWS OFFLINE
You can also work offline with MarsEdit, rather than switching to a word processing that you have to copy and paste into a blog entry later.Ī nifty addition to version 4 lets you turn selections in Safari into draft posts with a single button click. I find the distraction less in MarsEdit, too, so I’d prefer to write and edit there. If you’re managing multiple blogs, MarsEdit is a boon, because you don’t have to switch among different websites and interfaces, reducing your learning and retention curve while also offering tools as good or better than those found in many blogging platforms. The app can also create a dummy post, extract the HTML around the elements it inserts, and then delete that post to create a better template. If the template doesn’t match closely enough, you can click an Edit Template button to make changes. Using included templates, MarsEdit takes your locally drafted post and simulates what it will look like on the Web site. The preview feature of MarsEdit has always been a strong point, and the latest version updates as quickly as you type. IDGĭrag an image into MarsEdit 4, and the app offers a set of fields and options to control how it’s formatted, labeled, and inserted into a post. You can also view images already placed in a blog and drag them into a post anew, but you can’t resize or modify them at that point. This can then be inserted into a blog entry and, if the publishing engine of the platform supports it, directly uploaded. MarsEdit lets you drag images in from the Finder or select them through a media browser, and then change the file title, the ALT text tag, and other fields, and resize an image. Version 4 brought in all those settings and posts (and some nostalgia). At one point, I had a set of several related wireless/mobile self-hosted MovableType-based blogs that I used MarsEdit to manage. You can, of course, also create new posts, and save them locally as drafts while in progress. This is great in general, but also makes it possible for you to migrate posts.
MARSEDIT WINDOWS ARCHIVE
It can also download the complete archive for most blogs of everything you ever posted, giving you an effective local copy and backup. Once connected, MarsEdit pulls in the titles of previous posts, if any, and you can edit those.
You might encounter this with securely configured corporate accounts, but are unlikely to have it happen with blogs you set up and run yourself. With another multi-level-entry site, MarsEdit coped just fine. I don’t blame MarsEdit for being stymied, and I’d need to talk to the system admin for a workaround.
For one publication, there’s an “HTTP authentication” step (the pop-up window that gives you access to the website), then a pre-blog login page, then a WordPress login.
I discovered in testing with a few WordPress blogs that MarsEdit has a lot of tricks up its sleeve to deal with multiple layers of authentication that some publications employ, but sometimes it’s defeated. You can set up posting connections to many blogs across multiple platforms from a single interface. However, you can use a variety of other platforms that support standard MetaWeblog and AtomPub interfaces, which sweep in truly modern services, such as Micro.blog. There’s also richer support for WordPress, a dominant platform that continues to evolve. Version 4 supports blogging engines that date back to the earliest centrally-hosted and self-hosted platform days, like Movable Type, TypePad, and Blogger, as well as “newer” ones like Tumblr and WordPress.
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