At one point, I had a set of several related wireless/mobile self-hosted MovableType-based blogs that I used MarsEdit to manage. You can, of course, also create new posts, and save them locally as drafts while in progress. This is great in general, but also makes it possible for you to migrate posts. It can also download the complete archive for most blogs of everything you ever posted, giving you an effective local copy and backup. Once connected, MarsEdit pulls in the titles of previous posts, if any, and you can edit those. 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. Enjoy.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. Put it into the MarsEdit Scripts folder (~Library/Application Support/MarsEdit/Scripts) and restart MarsEdit for it to work. If you’ve got something selected it’ll append the tags to the end of the selection.ĭownload the script here (want to just criticize my applescripting? take a look). The HTML goes in at the insertion point, so don’t forget to click at the end of your post before running the script. After installing it, you use it by tagging your post and then just choosing the script from the Script menu: Yay.Īs part of this whole tagging experiment I wrote a little applescript for MarsEdit to automatically insert the “Technorati Tags” HTML at the bottom of each post (I borrowed most of it from the MarsEdit “Currently Playing in iTunes” script, and I shamelessly stole the formatting from John’s plugin that does basically the same thing on the MT side). And then I get to re-tag all my posts all over again. We’ll see how it works in the long run, though - I may decide that the MT software really resists tagging and what I should have done was categories in the first place. I like keywords because I can just type them in on a per-entry basis, willy-nilly. What it came down to was simplicity I have a lot of trouble with Movable Type’s categories because they have to be set up in MT beforehand. I’m using the keywords part of a movable type entry for my tags I wrestled a lot over the benefits of using keywords versus using categories. In the meantime I’m making use of the new technorati tag aggregation features so that you can go see the other blogs and pictures and links other people are tagging with the same stuff I’m tagging. My eventual goal is to reorganize the entire site so that it can be navigated and read tag-wise, but I’m still working on that. I’ve also been going back and tagging old posts, but man is that a bloody tedious bit of work. You may have noticed that I’ve been tagging my posts here, -style, over the last few days.
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