New Plug-ins Available for Windows Live Writer

Posted by:
Brandon LeBlanc
03:22 PM Wednesday
Dec 17, 2008
17 Comments

3 new Plug-ins for Windows Live Writer were recently release that I think bloggers who live and breath in Windows Live Writer (such as myself) will appreciate. These plug-ins were created by the awesome Windows Live Writer Team here at Microsoft.

DiggThis – Add a “DiggThis” badge to your blog posts so your readers can quickly “digg” your blog posts. The plug-in offers several different “styles” of badges to choose from, as well as alignment options for where its placed on your blog. Download the plug-in here.

Twitter Notify: This plug-in will automatically “tweet” the title and link to your blog to your Twitter account when you publish a blog post. Download the plug-in here.

Flickr Upload: When you insert an inline image in a blog post in Windows Live Writer it also uploads that image to Flickr you when publish your post. Download the plug-in here.

You can download the latest version of Windows Live Writer in the new Windows Live Essentials suite today at download.live.com. Some of the new features include:

Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
Insert and publish video to YouTube
Server-side tagging (support coming soon to WordPress.com and BlogEngine.NET)
Improved blog account setup

And there is more! You can read about what’s new in the latest Windows Live Writer release via the Windows Live Writer Team Blog.

Windows Live Writer is a must-have tool for bloggers.

Comments

dovella

Posted on: December 17, 2008 at 4:09PM
Thank's Brandon :D
David Anyanwu

Posted on: December 17, 2008 at 6:08PM
I just really wish you could upload files and stream music.
chakkaradeep

Posted on: December 17, 2008 at 6:37PM
"..it also uploads that image to Flickr you when publish your post" - would be nice if the tool uploads to Flickr and references that image in the post instead of storing a copy at the web server. I havent tested it, but I hope it does that?
Technogran

Posted on: December 17, 2008 at 7:07PM
I agree Brandon, I couldn't blog without it! Also did you know that you can now add a video file straight from your computer into Writer without leaving your desktop? Yes! Just add a video file from your computer, and Writer will send it up to Soapbox (provided of course that you have a membership) and then once Soapbox has processed it, then you can publish it in your post! At last! And all without leaving the Writer page, or having to type in URL's etc.
john

Posted on: December 18, 2008 at 12:37AM
Good of you to highlight this, BLB!
chakkaradeep

Posted on: December 18, 2008 at 4:52AM
Just installed the plug-ins and they are awesome! Good Work!

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