Windows Live Writer

Posted in IT by Will on October 26, 2006.

Update: I’ve now written a plugin that’ll automatically add the (basic) lightbox code for you in Wordpress itself.

Update 2: Use the Wordpress Plugin wp-lightbox to do all this (and more) for you automaticly.

Well, after a successful test just now, I have to agree with a lot of the commentary out there: Live Writer is actually really cool.

I’m not saying anything new by saying that someone needs to build a plugin for it to enable automagic Lightbox code embedding.

Sure, I can go and add the HTML manually (Yeah, Live Writer actually lets me do that easily enough), but given how slick the rest of the app is - it’s a shame, really that I need to do that.

The addition of drop shadows to the photo by default is interesting, but I’d prefer that it remembered my last selection (Photo paper, in this instance).

C’mon, don’t make me do it… *whine*

Oh, and yeah - you can customise the HTML, but that’s only specific elements - like URL, or Image, etc - not a combination of them.

 Meanwhile… here’s more photos (just ’cause I can)

 Spider, Spider on the Wall...

4 Comments

  1. Paul replied:

    Write a plugin!

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    }
    add_action(”the_content”,”foo”);
    ?>

    Well…that works for default wordpress imageness images ;)

    October 26th, 2006 at 11:51 am. Permalink.

  2. Paul replied:

    Okay…I see the my post was stripped to high hell.

    function foo ($bar)
    {
    return preg_replace(’//i’, ”, $bar);
    }
    add_action(”the_content”,”foo”);

    Something like that anyway.

    October 26th, 2006 at 11:51 am. Permalink.

  3. Paul replied:

    Okay, I’m going to give up, my regex was stripped from the post :(

    October 26th, 2006 at 11:52 am. Permalink.

  4. will replied:

    Hehe… HTML Encode it :P

    But, hrm… interesting idea…

    October 26th, 2006 at 12:52 pm. Permalink.