Update: previous post

Posted by Sofia in happy with
12 Feb, 2009

Firstly, Twitter rules! And here is a great example!

In my frustration of WP and Live Writer not working well together, I tweeted the following:

[Sofia] is not happy with WordPress 2.7.1 and/or Live Writer & ScribeFire cos they are not working a 100% together 🙁

A short while later, Brandon Turner replied back to me:

@Sofia I’m a developer on Windows Live Writer, whats the problem?

I tweeted a link to my previous post and Brandon came back with the following answers:

@Sofia First thing first, you have to upgrade xmllib2 on your server. that is what is causing the < > stripping. http://tinyurl.com/7slycb

@Sofia Now for the template problem… try doing View > Uncheck ‘Enable editing using themes’, does editing in that mode work for you?

I am so grateful & appreciative that Brandon helped me with this!!

Re the update for the server, I have to check with the guy who hosts my website to see if he is ok with the upgrade or not since it is his server. But thanks to Brandon, I now know what the solution to the problem is.

I have unchecked the theme and I can write my blog posts. It is a bit bare:

Live Writer Unthemed

and I hope there is a future fix so I can have the theme as the background when I am writing my posts.

This is happy ending to a problem that was outside my knowledge range.

You live and you learn and thanks to Twitter it is easier to learn new things.



This is my second blog that I have started, my first one under my real name. WordPress and Live Writer used to make my blogging easy so I started where I left off. However, they are not working very well together.

Here is a screen shot of what it looks like when I am typing in Live Writer – not usable frankly:

Test Live writer

and when posting the above test, it looks like this on the blog:

Test Live Writer 2

and this is now totally unusable.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.7.1 today which didn’t go smooth. The new version is a step forward though because in the previous version of WordPress, Live Writer could not collect the settings and blog themes due XML error I believe.

For writing this post, I have drafted it in Live Writer and the copy & paste the htlm into the dashboard to see how that works. This is a short term solution. I have never like writing my blog posts directly in WP Dashboard as I find it visual impairing and in general very limiting.



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