Windows Live Writer Customization

After I got over the initial disappointment of the BlogEngine.NET error with the latest release of Windows Live Writer (WLW) and the lack of XHTML compliance, I've gotten more and more excited by the potential of the new manifest system they've put in place for blog software to add specific features for their users.

Initially, I couldn't think of too many things that would be great additions.  Scott Hanselman showed off Das Blog showing referrers from inside WLW,  While really cool, it didn't seem too useful to me.  It might be to others however.  I rarely look at referrer stats and when I do, it never has anything to do writing a post.

Anyway, I'm going to try to implement a few of the ideas I came up with for BlogEngine.NET over the next day or two, but was wondering if others had ideas of things they wanted to see from inside WLW.  If you have any ideas, let me know.

Comments

6/22/2007 6:13:13 PM #

Pen

Got to ask! Is it possible within Windows Live Writer to automatically create Tags and assign a Category for posts? That would be a cool feature!

After reading your articles on themes for BlogEngine I am going to release the theme I have created for BlogEngine, its on my website currently.

Cheers

Garry  

Pen United Kingdom |

6/22/2007 6:14:23 PM #

Pen

Oops wrong website link!

Pen United Kingdom |

6/22/2007 6:25:31 PM #

Al Nyveldt

Windows Live Writer handles categories natively.  (In the current version, the categories drop down is in the lower left corner and it supports selecting multiple categories as well.)

Tags are not supported natively however, but I'm working on adding them in.  It will be in the next release (1.1) which is a few weeks away.  I'll likely write a post about it when I've finished.

I'd love to see more themes out there.  I look forward to seeing it once you release it. Smile

Al Nyveldt United States |

Comments are closed
Recent Comments