Do you love to blog?
Do you like to have nicely looking blog post with the perfect alignment, with embedded pictures and videos and the like?
Do you have multiple blogs in different blogging platform like WordPress, Blogger and many more?
Do you want to make your life easy as you blog minus all the complicated steps to insert an image, set alignment, add hyperlink and more?
If you answer yes to any one of the questions above, then you will be very interested with Windows Live Writer. 
Windows Live Writer can be any blogger’s best friend as it provides the platform that allows the rich text-editing format of MS Word and provides the tool to publish the post directly to any blogging platform.
Windows Live Writer
With Live Writer, you can create a blog post offline, insert images, pictures and videos, crop pictures and even add watermark, upload videos, add hyperlinks and more in one window and once blog post is done, it can then be easily published to your blog directly. Since it works with any blogging platform like Blogger, WordPress, and TypePad, you can add your accounts to this blogging platform in Windows Live Writer so you can manage all your accounts in one place. This means you can publish post to all your blogs without having to log in and log out from one platform to another.
Windows Live Writer can be downloaded for free from Microsoft website and the installation is very straightforward that it will be installed in your PC in less than 10 minutes.
Another nice thing about Windows Live Writer is that users can add plug-ins that will extend the functionality of this wonderful software. Here are some useful Windows Live Writer Plug-ins that can make your life as a blogger easy:
- Twitter Notify. This is a plug-in that works with Windows Live Writer and it sends a tweet announcing the new blog post as soon as you publish it in Windows Live Writer. The URL of the post will be generated using TinyURL service. From the Options menu, you can customize the default message that will be posted along with the URL of the post.
- Digg This. This plug-in will add a Digg This badge to your post so readers can Digg your post. Customization on the alignment and style of the Digg This badge can be done in the Options menu.
- Flickr Upload. This plug-in uploads to Flickr, all inline image that you inserted to your post so users will be redirected to your Flickr photo stream if they click the image on your post.
- Flickr4Writer. This is another great plug-in to use with Live Writer if you have a Flickr account. This plug-in will add an “Insert Flickr Image” in the Insert menu which will allow you to insert in your post pictures from Flickr. The image can be search by tags or by username and you can also select the size of the image to insert in the post.
- Social Bookmarks. This plug-in will add a social bookmarking icon for sites such as Digg, del.icio.us, furl, yahoo! to your post that the readers can click to share the post to these sites.
- Insert Video. As the name suggest, this plug-in will allow you to easily embed a YouTube, Google Video or MySpace video to your post. All that is needed is the URL of the video and the plug-in will automatically generate the code needed to embed the video clip.
- Screen Captures. Do you sometimes want to post a snapshot of a particular site to your blog post? Let say you saw a sale alert in the homepage of shoebuy and you want to blog about this discount offer so your readers can also enjoy the coupon codes and vouchers being offered by the site. This plug-in will make it easy for your to do that just by typing the URL of the site and it will insert a screen shot of the page to your post.
- Blog This. This cool plug-in will let you select a text from a site in IE and Firefox and after clicking the Blog This button will create a new post in Live Writer populated with the Title, text and URL of the page.
We all love things that will make our blogging life easy and Windows Live Writer partnered with the above Plug-ins will surely make blogging such a breeze.
AbieL is a professional blogger who writes for You Love Coupons, a blog about coupon codes and discount vouchers for various sites like shoebuy and ebags. Her current project is writing articles on how to get ebag coupon code and shoebuy.com coupon code.
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Last Updated: February 5, 2012
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thanks for the knowledgeable post, windows live writer helps a lot in managing quality blogs, managing so many things in one time is good, it will save a lot of time.
once again thanks.
You are welcome Aishalal!
thanks for reading the article and glad you find it useful
I don’t know what you see about windows live but blogspot is still my best friend.
Hmm, Windows Live Writer makes thing easy!
I agree with Sahsham. It makes things easy like aligning images, putting watermark, etc.
Its a new thing for me. Windows live writer?? a learned a new thing. can any one tell me how to use it.
just download the software and install it. Instead of blogging to your blogging platform, you can add you accounts from different blogging platforms to live writer and you can blog from there.
perfect list… windows live writer is always been in the top list..
Yeah, simply because Windows Live writer rocks!
i love windows live writer too. it helps me blog even if i have multiple blogs in different platform
Do you know how to add yoast seo fields to live wrtter?
its really gooood…….
Thank you for this wonderful post. I’ve never tried windows live before but I think all the features are cool.All the plug-ins especially the the screen capture plug-in, I’ve never even heard before.
glad you find the post useful. thanks for reading
You must try it! Windows Live Writer really is an awesome tool easing your writing work.
Hi….There are lot of other platforms available….Blogjets… etc…
thanks for the suggestion sibin
I love to use windows live writer and Polaroid plugin.
Thanks for dropping a comment Salman! Windows Live Writer rockS!! :D
thanks for reading Salman
Awesome information. I have used live writer but I did not know it could use so many add ons. Very nice and helpful site you have here.
Thanks Mr….! Well, Wndows live writer has many add-ons, just search! ;-)
glad you find the article useful Mr.MakingUsmile
I’m using Live writer too, but can anyone tell me how to controls paragraph spacing like word in live writer??
Where can I find this? “Blog This. This cool plug-in will let you select a text from a site in IE and Firefox and after clicking the Blog This button will create a new post in Live Writer populated with the Title, text and URL of the page.”
Oops, the add-on is no longer available. It was deleted by its makers recently. You can find a backup at http://img.labnol.org/files/blog_this_for_windows_live_writer.xpi