In my limited dealings (to date) with WordPress, one thing quickly become abundantly clear: the formatting of posts using the built-in editor leaves a lot to be desired. The editor itself seems pretty good, but WordPress somehow messes things up. You can format your text all you want, and the next thing you see is that WordPress has removed paragraph breaks! Frustrating to say the least.

Enter Windows Live Writer…

Windows Live Writer offer a convenient way of editing your posts right from your desktop. It is not only easy to use, but it does not suffer from the mentioned annoying formatting issues.

Getting Windows Live Writer to work with WordPress is really

easy to do:

1. Log in to your WordPress admin console. Under Settings, go to Writing and enable the XML-RPC option. If you do not do this, then your WordPress installation will not accept connections from Windows Live Writer.
2. Download Windows Live Writer from the Windows Live website, install it on your computer, and add an Account for your WordPress blog on the Tools menu.

Keywords: WordPress, Windows Live Writer, XML-RPC, Settings