The Blog editing software that comes with most blogging packages is not the best editor that you can use. There are tons of software out there that can edit your blogs, but what if you wanted to save the blog edits as a backup while you write kind of situation? If you I have a Macintosh, then I have the solution for you.
The software I use for much of my blogging is MacJournal from Mariner Software. There are two reasons for using the software, it works with WordPress, and it does more than just provide a blog editing tools. It really is my electronic Journal. The problem is that some people want to know how to set up the software to work with your blogging package.
External blogging Editors use one of several standards for talking with your blog. You must make sure that the blogging software has one of the standards turned on, as shown on the following image.
Once you have your blog software configured to allow remote publishing, then you have to set up MacJournal to enable one of your Journal’s to publish to your blog. Either make a journal or use an existing one in MacJournal.
Select that journal in the list. Then go to the Journal menu, and click on edit blog server like in the following picture.
This starts the blog server dialog. This is a 3 step process. Since most of the protocols are well known and provide information about themselves, it’s easy for the software to configure itself to use your blog software’s remote protocol. The first part of this process is where is your log. Enter the URL for your blog.
The next step is to enter a username and password to use with your blog. This is a username and password that you create for your site for you to publish under. It is never a good idea to use the admin user for your site, which you created when you first made your site. I recommend that you have an author-only user for yourself. Author-only means that you only have right to publish to your blog, and nothing else. If someone where to purloin your laptop or machine, then all they could do is publish until you logged in as the admin user on another computer and changed the password.
The final step is to view the information that MacJournal discovered about the site once it logged in. If everything seems correct then I recommend that you accept everything by clicking on okay. Once that is done, then you can add Journal entries to this journal and then publish your posts by choosing the Share menu and selecting the Send to “Your Blog’s Name”
Do you use another blog editing tool. Tell us about it in tthe comments section below.
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MacJournal is great (thanks Macheist). I use it to publish to LiveJournal and Wordpress simultaneously. A pox on Vox. Then I usually copy and paste into iWeb to post to MobileMe. Hope the Mariner guys can get the iWeb integration to work.
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