![]() The app supports Markdown for previewing, but doesn’t color code it in the editor and its formatting controls won’t insert Markdown elements when you’re writing Markdown. While there’s a formatting bar with some frequently used items and a Format menu with many more-which allows custom entries to be added along with keystroke triggers-it’s all for HTML. You can use the Text Filter menu in MarsEdit to choose which type of formatting you’re using, which then allows a preview of what you’re composing or editing. The post window shows color-coded HTML, a list of categories, blog metadata fields, and various preview and formatting options.īlog services often support formatting text in one or more methods, whether it’s plain text, HTML, Markdown, or Textile. 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 There’s also richer support for WordPress, a dominant platform that continues to evolve. It’s a good application to manage multiple types of blog content conveniently without having to be online or tied to a cloud service.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. MarseEdit not only allows us to connect to WordPress but also to other blogging platforms such as Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type, and any blog that supports a standard MetaWeblog or AtomPub interface. It will prompt you to enter the WordPress blog credentials like how we did for the first one. ![]() Simply click on + at the bottom of the left-hand side sidebar as shown in the screenshot below. MarsEdit also allows you to connect to multiple blogs. When you’re ready, you can click the View on Web on the toolbar, which will bring you up to the default browser to preview the content from the site itself. It also allows you to edit the preview template with custom styles and elements to match the actual content style on the site. MarsEdit comes with a built-in previewer that you can access by hitting the Shift + Cmd + P hotkey or clicking the Preview button on the toolbar, where you can preview the content without having to be connected to the Internet. MarsEdit Post Editor Interfaceįrom the View option in the menu bar, you can display additional fields to the editor, such as the “Slug” to edit the post name as well as the “Excerpt” field. On the right-hand side, you can add the post to the existing Categories or create a new one, and drag-n-drop an image to set as feature image. You can write the post content on the left-hand side with a simple WYSIWYG interface, select the type of content, whether it’ll a Post, Page, or a post format like the Aside, Gallery, Link, Quote, Status, etc. Writing a post in MarsEdit is quite intuitive as it presents you with a similar interface as in the WordPress editor. And you can start writing the post content. Writing and Publishing a Blog PostĬlick the hotkey, Cmd + N, or go to the File > New Post to create a new post. Once it’s successfully connected to your blog, it will pull the existing content as well as the post metadata such as the Categories and the Tags into the app. In this case, we assume that you already have a WordPress blog installed, so we can simply add our username and password to log in to the site through the app. Upon initiating the app, it will prompt you to add a new Blog. Otherwise, you can enable it by going to Setting > Writing. If you are running on WordPress v3.5 and above, it is already enabled by default. Note that MarsEdit requires XML-RPC enabled to communicate with the site. Read more Connecting to a Blogįirst, Download MarsEdit and place it in Application folder in macOS. WordPress is updated regularly, about 2 or 3 times a year.
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