Windows Live Writer: Development Forum

How to change or edit picture html-template

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:37:15 Z

When you insert a picture in Live Writer the Source look similar to this:

<p><a href="$P1310323[2].jpg"><img title="Test Title" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="139" alt="asdasdasdasd" src="$P1310323_thumb.jpg" width="244" border="0" /></a></p>

What i need is title attribute in addition. Like in this example.

<p><a title="Test Title

" href="$P1310323[2].jpg"><img title="asdasdasdasd" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="139" alt="asdasdasdasd" src="$P1310323_thumb.jpg" width="244" border="0" /></a></p>

Of course i can change the sourcecode in every Post i make, but isn't there some other way to do this? Because there is a part in the options where you can change the html-template for pictures. I tried, but didn't manage to mage title=Test Title" to show up.
I need this additional title-tag because i use a plugin (shadowbox) in my wordpress Blog which only recognices title, not img title, for the caption.
Hope someone can help
Regards
Eike Henning

PublishNotificationHook write to PostInfo.Contents

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:54:12 Z

Hi there

Ive put together a few changes to the Flickr Upload plugin that allows posting of image to Flickr at publish time rather than at image insert time. This is for use when I am travelling and have no internet connection. It will allow me to build a post with images offline and then publish post to my blog and image to Flickr with a single click.

Anyways Ive done the heavy lifting now and have my Flickr imagr URL's ready to insert into my blog content before it is posted only to find that PostInfo.Contents is Read Only. Ive tried a few things with Reflection but I cant seem to replace the Contents value with my amended Contents.

Does anybody have any advice or suggestions on ways to edit the Contents property before it is published?

Cheers
Justin

How Can I Use Live Writer as the Editor for a Custom Blog or CMS?

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:42:22 Z

After watching a Scott Hanselman video I was sold on Live Write and sold others on my team in using it. I work for an internet publishing company and it makes sense for us to see if Live Write can be integrated into a .NET CMS application so it becomed the test/HTML editor. The only other choice is to wrangle with using the FCK editor...ugh. Any ideas or places I can look at to see how this has or might be accomplished?

HOWTO: Get current PostApiUrl from ContentSource plugin

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:37:46 Z

Is there way to get currently selected blog PostApiUrl from ContentSource plugin?

Unable to upload post to Windows Live Writer

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:45:59 Z

I am not sure if this is the right place I post this question, but seems like it's a bug, so developer should pay attention.

Currently I am using Windows Live Writer build 14.0.8089.726 en, on Windows 7 Ultimate.

I faced this error when I posting my blog post to Blogger.

1. Unexpected end of file has occurred. The following elements are not closed: entry. Line 1, position 612.

2. There is an unclosed literal string. Line 1, position 1419.

Both of them has the title: File Upload Failed.

I already uninstalled and reinstalled again, but error still persist.

Flickr Upload When Offline

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:20:41 Z

Hi there

Im investigating using Live Writer as my blogging tool for an upcoming cycle tour. As I wont have a constant internet connection it seems like a very good solution for storing my posts offline and then uploading when I am able to get online. At the moment Im intending to store my photos in my Flickr account however it seems that the Live Writer Flickr Upload plugin only works when you are online.

Ive noticed that if I insert an image rather than using the Flickr Upload plugin this seems to work OK either uploading image to Picasa (I have a blogger blog) or to Windows Live if I use the Gallery option.

Does anybody know if there is an option or plugin to save images for Flickr upload when the post is published?

Ive also been writing my first basic plugin so am considering adding Flickr upload capability during the OnPostPublish method. However I dont want to re-invent the wheel so if anybody knows of an existing plugin please let me know.

Cheers
Justin

Blog theme info extracting for the plugin

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:35:46 Z

Is there any way to get the current blog theme info (background color, text color, etc.) through Writer API?

How do you get the spelling checking to happen on content created by a SmartContentSource Plug-In

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:56:31 Z

I have been building a SmartContentSource plug-in. I have it working and have now found that Writer is not spelling checking (dynamically or from the menus) the content which the plug-in is creating.
Is there a way to switch on the spelling checking? Or, do I need to switch the plug-in to a ContentSource plugin to have spelling checking?
Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks.

PublishNotificationHook.OnPrePublish change content

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:18:09 Z

Hi,

I am writing Live Writer plug-in and would like to modify content in OnPrePublish. But property PostInfo.Contents has only get method. Is there any way to modify content befor publish to blog?

viktor

WBR, Viktor

internet expplorer prob

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:44:59 Z

internet expplorer is not working.

why?

Changing a span's attribute duplicates the whole span

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:58:25 Z

Imagine the user selects some formatted text in edit mode and invokes my plug-in. The selected text corresponds to the following markup:

hello

Accordingly, this is the markup my plug-in receives as the content string. Now, all my plug-in does is change the class attribute's value. Accordingly, this is the new value of the content string:

hello

However, it appears that WLW tries to be smart - in a really dumb way ;)
When I switch to HTML view, I can see I ended up with the following markup:

world 

...I really don't see any reason for this. Any idea of a workaround would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Philipp

Confessions of a Code Addict: http://www.hardcodet.net

Bug? Quotation marks are missing in attributes

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:12:44 Z

Hi there

I'm trying to write a simple plug-in that accesses the selected HTML markup. Have a look at these samples:

hello world.
hello world.

When selecting the word "world" and starting my plug-in, the submitted content is the following:

The quotation marks are missing. I'm getting world
The attribute is there, including quotation marks

...I don't know which attributes are affected (and why there is a distinction of cases in the first place!), but it sure is annoying, as I can't parse the submitted markup properly due to invalid content. I'd be most happy if I'd really get the selected markup (also without upper casing of the tags) - is that possible?

Cheers,
Philipp

Confessions of a Code Addict: http://www.hardcodet.net

Live writer or word

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:56:19 Z

Why is the free live writer better than the full version word 2007 for publishing to/managing blogs? this seems a bit backwards.

Jeff

Make Live Writer permit new Categories in the interface

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:34:35 Z

When I connect to WordPress Blog I can add tags and categories with in Live Writer but when I connect with my custom metaWeblog site I do not get the option to add tags and can only select categories. Are there specific methods I must incorporate to facilitate this?

regards,
Dave

How to make the system recognize "New Page" with custom MetaWeblogAPI

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:30:32 Z

I have successfully implemented the ability for it to add, edit and delete a post but cannot figure out how to make New Page option highlight as well.

I have implemented all the WordPress library:

wp.newPage
wp.getPageList
wp.getPages
wp.getPage
etc.

Is there something else I need to do to make Live Writer recognize the ability to add a page?

RSD and MetaWeblog Api

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:34:40 Z

I'm currently working on implementing the MetaWeblog Api in my company's internal Blog site and am having some difficulty getting RSD (Real Simple Detection) working with Windows Live Writer. The main issue is the "blogID" attribute of the <api.../> element. Here is an example of my RSD XML file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<engineName>Blog Service</engineName>

<engineLink>http://mycompany/blogs/BlogServiceHandler.ashx</engineLink>

<homePageLink>http://mycompany/blogs/default.aspx</homePageLink>

<apis>

</apis>

</service>

</rsd>

Live Writer does not automatically detect that I'm using MetaWeblog unless I enter a value in for the "blogID" attribute. But, if I do enter a value for it, then Live Writer automatically determines that I'm using the blog with that ID and does not call the "blogger.getUsersBlogs()" function letting me choose which blog I want to post to like it does when I manually pick MetaWeblog and point it to my MetaWeblog Handler (http://mycompany/blogs/BlogServiceHandler.ashx).

The RSD spec says to leave the "blogID" attribute blank if its not used, but Live Writer doesn't seem to allow this. Is there a workaround? Or is this just not possible?

Thank you.

get a web content using php

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:40:40 Z

i created a php web page. in that i want to display web content so that i need how to get and print a web content in my php page. i have used file_get_content. but it does not work can u help mee...................

Problems with XML-RPC?

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:04:47 Z

I'm running WP 2.1.3 (but I also tried the same on 2.0.11 and 1.5.3) in bare configuration (practically no plugins activated and no themes added) on PHP 4.4.x and MySQL 4.0.x. Posting works without any problems from inside the admin panel but any time I try to post with Windows Live Writer (latest beta) I receive the error message:

"Invalid Server Response - The response to the blogger.getUsersBlog method received from the weblog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server."

Is there something on the server side that needs to be fixed?

Any ideas what might be causing it and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

drop cap for live writer

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:25:00 Z

Been using live writer for blogging for almost 4 months now and just love it! Just 2 questions please:
a) if i downloaded live writer 3 months ago, does that mean i don't have the latest version?
b) is there a chance of introducing a bonus feature (or plug-in) like drop cap choices? It would be nice to have drop caps in the beginning of blogs for style purposes. i started doing them manually by inserting the relevant html but soom gave up because it was laborious.
thanks for your replies!

explorer 7 wont work on xp

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:13:22 Z

i downloaded explorer 8 and it wouldnt load so i uninstalled it and got explorer 8 of a cd but that didnt work so i uninstalled that and got explorer 7 and it still dosent work

ive tried restarting it

reinstalling it

tried loading it loads of times

but it still wont work.i need to go on it at home (i used public computer) .if anyone has any suggestions pleez tell me

reply asap if u no what to do

How can I get all posted article and save them as XML file in my PC?

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:32:36 Z

How do I get all of posted articles and save them as XML file in my PC?

Is there any interface or method can do this ?

x2m

WLW not configuring plugins

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:21:19 Z

I am using Wordpress 2.8.2 and the latest version of Windows Live Writer 14.0.8064.206 en. I have installed some plugins in my blog one of them is "Post Thumbnails" but i am not able to add thumb using WLW. Actually WLW is not configuring that plugin as it is showing Tag, Comments Yes/No...etc. It should show Post Thumbnails options too.

If anybody able to do so please help.

Thanks

Theme Detection Problem of Wordpress blog in Windows Live Writer

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:05:28 Z

Hello i m Ganesh....
i have my own wordpress blog.....some days ago i thought to move on Windows Live Writer....when i configure it then there is a problem with my blogs theme....

The theme which i customized for my blog is not detected by the Writer...i reinstall it but the result is same....
I also try another themes they are going well.....all the appearance, style are same as the real one...

i am also getting the error message

But the theme which i m using is not showing anything....no backgorund....no font style....nothing.

[IMG]http://www.lancelarsen.com/Portals/www_lancelarsen_com/Blog/Files/24/91/WLW-966ebc38bc63_8544-clip_image014_2.jpg[/IMG]

Twitter Insert: Looking for feedback on my first plugin

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:41:34 Z

Hi All,

I released my first WLW plug-in and would like to get your feedback, if you have a moment to try it. It is called Twitter Insert and, as you can probably guess from the name, it inserts your recent tweets into your blog post.

You can find it here: http://tod1d.net/files/folders/misc/entry701.aspx

Thanks for your time.

Tod Birdsall, MCSD for .NET http://tod1d.net

Custom Integration w/ Blog - File Upload

Tue, 26 May 2009 02:04:10 Z

So I'm trying to integrate LiveWriter API with a custom web site I created. I've been using the PlugBlog files over at the code plex (http://www.codeplex.com/PlugBlog). I've gotten everything to work with the exception of File Uploads. Now the error I'm getting in LiveWriter is the generic "Picture Upload Not Supported By Blog".

I have implemented the metaWeblog.newMediaObject in my xmlrpc.ashx.cs file and updated the rsd.xml file nad wlwmanifest.xml file. In the manifest.xml I have added FileUpload as yes. So wondering where I could have gotten wrong - shouldn't I be getting a different error than Picture Upload Not Support but instead an error message if it was actually trying to upload the file.

Here is my metaWeblog portion.

[XmlRpcMethod("metaWeblog.newMediaObject")]
        public MediaObjectInfo newMediaObject(string blogid, string username, string password, MediaObject mediaObject)
        {
            #region MSWLWNewMediaObject
            MediaObjectInfo returnMe = new MediaObjectInfo();
            //int userID = checkUser(username, password);
            //if (userID != -1)
            //{


                //if (!Directory.Exists(Path.GetDirectoryName(filename)))
                //{
                    //Directory.CreateDirectory(Path.GetDirectoryName(filename));
                //}

                string ImagePhysicalPath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("C:\\data\\folder\\images\\");
                if (mediaObject.bits != null)
                {

                    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(mediaObject.bits);
                    Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(ms);

                    ImagePhysicalPath = ImagePhysicalPath + mediaObject.name;
                    string PathOnly = Path.GetDirectoryName(ImagePhysicalPath).Replace("/", "\\");
                    if (!Directory.Exists(PathOnly))
                        Directory.CreateDirectory(PathOnly);
                    bitmap.Save(ImagePhysicalPath);
                }
                
                returnMe.url = "http://www.domain.com/image/" + mediaObject.name;
                returnMe.type = "image/jpeg";
                returnMe.file = mediaObject.name;
            //}
            //else
            //{
                //throw new XmlRpcFaultException(0, "invalid user credentials");
            //}
            return returnMe;
            #endregion
        }

Anyone have any thoughts.

Thanks,

DJ

Richard Brynteson | Convergent Solutions Group | http://www.convergent-solutions.com

WordPress private post support - xmlrpc errors

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:07:28 Z

LiveWriter doesn't seem to know or care about WordPress' concept of private posts, so I've been trying to find ways to work around it.

The LiveWriter api doesn't seem to have any hooks to enable me to set the status of a post to 'private', so I've resorted to creating a WordPress plugin, but I am getting XMLRPC errors in LiveWriter.

What I am doing is putting the word 'PRIVATE:' at the begining of my post title in LiveWriter. When I publish the post, there is a WordPress plugin that checks for that string, removes it from the title, and sets the post status to 'private' instead of 'published'.

This all works great on the WordPress side, everything works as expected, but LiveWriter chokes with an XMLRPC error during publish, and then it sees the local post as a draft.

Is there any way I can debug livewriter during the publish process to see why it is choking? Does anyone offhand know if it is choking because I changed the title, or if it is choking because it doesn't understand a status of 'private'?

Thanks a lot,

Adam

Windows Live Writer has problems posting pictures in blogs

Mon, 25 May 2009 17:33:45 Z

I love Windows Live writer, it is very useful, easy and streamlined. However, if I add pictures to my blog post, it cannot properly upload and instead gives a 403 forbidden error. Without the pictures, everything is fine.

All other aspects work well, such as theme retrieval, etc.

I use it to post blogs on google's blogger.com

Anyone have a fix? or is there one in progress?

Can We Charge A Fee For Plugins?

Wed, 13 May 2009 12:07:33 Z

Is it possible to charge a small fee for plugins, working thru the "Windows Live Writer Gallery"?

I'm thinking $1 or $2, sorta like the Iphone apps, website.

Bug in Windows Live Writer

Sun, 17 May 2009 03:10:35 Z

Good morning, team of developers.
I had found the bug in Windows Live Writer.

1) Program version:
14.0.8064.206 ru

2) version of my operating system:
Windows Vista build 6002 SP2 v.113

3) Problem:
If the folder has 2 files with names *. jpg and *. gif, (* - any smvoly) then when you insert a file by using a side-menu item in the "Picture ..." get a window of that image is not selected "

Sorry for my English - I'm Russian.
Waiting for an answer.
Best regards. Alexander Parygin.

How to post a blog having image to Live Spaces using MetaWeblog API ?

Thu, 28 May 2009 06:29:15 Z

I want to write an application which can post blogs having images. According to spaces documentation it doesn't support newMediaObject() method of the MetaWeblog API. In that case how can i post blogs consisting of images ?

PS: Have already posted this to Live Spaces forum. Didn't get a reply there so reposting here. It would great if someone can give any suggestions.

Write a blog in Telugu

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:59:59 Z

Hi,

Can someone let me know how i can write a blog in telugu using Windows Live Writer?

Regards,

-Chandra.

Publish code in blogspot blog - without add additional lines

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:24:57 Z

Hi,

I am using Windows Live Writer to publish technical post, I posted code (.net, javascript, etc).

I used the tools:

http://stevedunns.googlepages.com/codeformatterforwindowslivewriter

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d4409446-af7f-42ec-aa20-78aa5bac4748

and others.

But in all case the code region is generated, but I have a bug when I publish the post.
Blogspot add extra lines " ", in the paragraph above the code.

Example: http://ltuttini.blogspot.com/2009/05/jqmodal-contenido-dinamico-utilizando.html

Do you know, How I post correct code using Live Writer in blogspot ?

I wanted to use: http://precode.codeplex.com/, but I don't know how enable Syntaxhighlighter.

greetings

Leandro Tuttini

Work: Iceberg Solutions
Blog
Buenos Aires
Argentina

Batch Operation in WindowsLive Contacts API

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:44:32 Z

Hi all,

I want to add multiple contacts in windows live and need to perform multiple operations(ie.Batch Operation) like add, edit and delete contacts at the same time.

After searching the forums and reviewing windows live sdk or windowslive contacts API, I was not able to find any examples/samples reagrding this.Could any one point out where can i find the XML request samples available or for adding atleast multiple contacts or batch operations?

Regards,

Harish

metaWeblog calling mt methods

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:13:11 Z

OK, I know it sounds weird. So I have integrated my blog to use metaWeblog and had everything working. I started playing around with my wlwmanitest.xml file to enable pages support and then all of a sudden when I try to get categories instead of calling metaWeblog.getCategories it is calling mt.getCategoryList. I can see it plain as day in Fiddler. So I changed metaWeblog.getCategories to what it suddenly was looking for and now it cannot get the category list as if the XML being returned isn't correct anymore.

Just so you know what changed, I had the wlwmanifest.xml file up on the server but you could read it. Generic IIS error so I think it was get generic settings in the Windows Live Writer client. Changes to the manifest wouldn't appear in the client. I fixed this problem, so it would actually read the file and now its all down time.

Does this make any sense?

Richard

Invalid XML response from WindowsLive Contacts API

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:42:30 Z

Hi all,

I am using WindowsLive Contacts API for my application. When I made a HTTP request for retrieving the windows live contacts, after setting the authorization headers etc,

the xml response which i got was not able to parse. This is mainly because I am seeing a ? symbol before the XML response like ?<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>,

this ? is printed as <U+FEFF><XML response> in console. I think some special characters like BOM is coming with XML response. Is it Invalid response or a bug from windows live contacts API? Somebody could check out this issue?

Thanks in Advance..

Irql_not_less_or_equal

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:24:03 Z

Hi there , my computer crash everytime i try to run a program using smslib to send sms via a sony ericsson modem. how can someone help me!

How to give a HTML code in windows live writer

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:50:15 Z

Please help me
How to insert a HTML code in windows lice writer

No EXIF (description) data for Images are carried over onto Wordpress with Live Writer???

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:41:30 Z

When I downloaded Live Writer I was extremely impressed with nearly everything it does and started using it immediately for my blog.
BUT, you have a HUGE problem. Not all of the EXIF data gets carried over with your images when you upload through Live Writer, mainly I'm talking about Description data. This is horrible and I don't understand why this functionality wasn't added, yet it does nearly everything else you could ask for. Usually when my pictures are uploaded into Wordpress the image title and alt tag is automatically generated, and image description is filled out with the Caption I typed in using Picasa. This doesn't get carried over using Live Writer though...

I am unhappy about this and this missing functionality alone is causing me to look for other software to use instead. Any idea when you guys will implement this feature?

Windows Live Writer Technical Preview

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:26:31 Z

Today Windows Live Writer released a technical preview that includes new and improved features. Please post to this forum and let us know about your experiences using Writer (good or bad).

If you have feedback about feature updates in the product, please post on the Windows Live Writer (Beta) forum.

The Writer team reads all of the messages posted to both forums and uses your feedback to improve Writer - please post a message and let your feedback be heard!

Feature Request:: Service-specific fields

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:26:55 Z

I'd like to request the ability to have the Writer UI add support for custom fields supported by a blogging platform. For example, I may have a platform that supports the concept of a co-author for a post. It would be great if WLW could add in a UI element to support this and then serialize the data sent back to the service.

The Live Writer manifest would be the perfect place to add this functionality. I envision it as something like:

<manifest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wlw/manifest/weblog"> 
  <options> 
    ... 
  </options> 
  <customFields> 
     <field name="CoAuthor" display="Co-Author" type='text' maxLength="128" /> 
  </customFields> 
</manifest>

I can imagine the ability to add generic types such as text, html, integers, dates, etc. What say you Microsoft and WLW users?