Performancing Your Blog Tuesday 2006-01-24
You may find it somewhat tedious to post entries in your blog. The way it normally works, you have to first log in to your admin or author account before you get to the editor. Now there is the Performancing plugin for Firefox, that you can use to post to your blog ( or blogs if you have more than one to talk to ).
The plugin installs using the normal Firefox procedure, and after a restart you get an icon in the status bar.
When you click on the icon or press F8, the editor dialog presents itself in-line in the current window or in a separate tab.
For every blog where you have authoring rights, you go through a simple wizard to set up the address and authentication data and you are ready to post. It uses the xml-rpc server built into your blogging software to add posts to your blog.
The editor is WYSIWYG and you enter your article, select the category(-ies ) and push the Publish button. When you select your blog, the categories shows up in a handy tabbed sidebar in the editor.
If you know the URL of an image, you kan easily include it in your post.
Chris Garrett has written a clear and short handbook on how to install and use the Performancing blog editor.
If you want an in-line spell checker, he recommends SpellBound, although he gives you a soft warning that is still beta. As I’m not English speaking by birth and habit, I’ll certainly need it.
This post is written and published in Performancing to the WordPress category - Lets see what happened!
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Tuesday 2006-01-24
Great success!
I’m happy to recommend it. Performancing was easy to install, and worked right out of the box. No hassle. I’m quite sure there will be problems, as I try to do more fancy stuff, but the ease with which you go directly to any blog you author in and the smoothness of the whole process, makes it worth install and test.
One thing I noticed, was that I didn’t get the preview, when I clicked the preview button. That might well have been a newbie thing.
Thursday 2006-02-09
[...] Performacing is a very good post editor, written as a plugin to Firefox. It’s a WYSIWYG/HTML editor, that is launched in line in your current window ( useful if you want to comment on a page or blog entry. You can use it to post to more than one blog, without going to your blog’s admin page, and categories are selectable. It works excellent for WordPress and other blogging software supporting xml-rpc posting. Read my post on Perfomance. [...]