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WB Editor 3.0 development started. Code name: MyPoint.

It has a complete new design. The changes and/or enhancements are as big as changing from 1.0 to 2.0.

The new version will run under Microsoft .NET 2.0. It will use the ClickOnce Deployment with automatic upgrade detection.

Changes in WB Editor 2.5

• Added upload image from clipboard
• Added image/file upload through FTP
• Added “select blog server” menu for cross posting
• Added “open new editor” menu
• Added new plugin: clipboard monitor
• Added option: preview post in browser after posting 
• Added create tag from selected text in Tag Me plugin
• Bug fix: WYSIWYG editor toolbar to reflect text formatting info at the cursor

Download WB Editor 2.5.

Tags: WB Editor cross posting clipboard monitor tag WYSIWYG FTP image upload

In WB Editor 2.5, image upload wizard supports FTP and Clipboard.

It is very convenient to capture a screen shot, then upload to blog server, FTP and/or Flickr.

Tags: WB Editor FTP Clipboard image upload image upload Flickr blog blog server screen shot

WB Editor 3 can upload images or files to FTP server and
creates links to the uploaded images and files.

In order to use the FTP upload function, while setting up the blog site properties, the FTP related information are required.

If tried bad passwords for a couple of times, the account will be locked for 24 hr. You will keep getting “Access Denied” message from MSN Space. See a thread from MSDN Forum.

Here is the story:

From this point on, even typed in correct “Secret word”, my account locked “Access Denied” and “Access Denied” again.

Tags: Access Denied MSN Space WB Editor Secret word password

Flickr is a revolution in photo storage, sharing and organization, making photo management an easy, natural and collaborative process. Get comments, notes, and tags on your photos, post to any blog, share and chat live and more! WB Editor supports to upload images Flickr and insert into your blog posts.

To upload images to Flickr.com

If your blog server dose not support image upload, WB Editor 2 supports to upload images to flickr.com. First of all you need an account registered at flickr.com.

In the image upload wizard, click the “Authorize with Flickr” button, the authorization page of flickr.com will ask you to grant read, write and delete permission to WB Editor 2. Click the blue button labeled “OK, I’LL ALLOW IT”.

Then go back to WB Editor 2’s image upload wizard, the “Authorize with Flickr” button, became the “Complete Authorization” button, click to download your permission from flickr.com.

Check the “Upload Flickr.com” check box allows you to upload image to flickr. Otherwise it will still try to upload image to your blog server.

At anytime, if you want to totally stop using flickr, click the “remove authorization” button.

Settings of MSN Spaces

Setup Needed on MSN Spaces

• Log in to MSN Spaces
• Go to ‘Edit Your Space->Settings->Email Publishing
• Turn on Email Publishing
• Choose a “secret word”

Connect Using WB Editor 2

Once you configured your MSN Spaces, Start WB Editor 2.

• Type in URL to your MSN Spaces.
• Select Server type “MSN Spaces”
• Type in your MSN Spaces user name and the “secret word ” as password
• Click the next button

WB Editor 2 will take screen shot from your blog and download categories.

WB Editor 2 then is ready to go.

Thanks to RSD (Really Simple Discoverability). It allows WB Editor to detect XML-RPC from user’s blog home page.  This greatly simplifies the steps involved in setting up a account in WB Editor.

See a demo of how to connect to wordpress.com.

To connect to blogger.com, WB Editor is now using the Atom API instead of Blogger API or Blogger API 2.0.

By default WB Editor saves blog posts using HTML file format. The post text is saved but images are not.

Web Archive plug-in came to rescue, it saves blog post into MHTML format (.MHT) file. It is actually based on RFC standard 2557, compliant Multipart MIME Message (MHTML web archive)., a.k.a Web Archive.

Blog post and all of its references, including images, css, scripts and etc. now can be bundled into a single compact file.