http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/categories/marsedit/p3/feed.rss Mon, 20 May 13 00:00:50 -0400 MarsEdit - Red Sweater Forums en-CA http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2386/will-marsedit-ever-have-emoticons-on-their-toolbar Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:04:53 -0500 daisybelle 2386@/forums/discussions
Is there a workaround to get those smileys imbedded into MarsEdit blog posts now?

Thanks for any information you can give me.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2399/adding-files-instead-of-images Sat, 02 Feb 2013 11:14:30 -0500 mole555 2399@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2400/how-to-fill-yoast-wordpress-seo-plugin-custom-fields-in-marsedit-tutorial Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:37:26 -0500 Parneix 2400@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/1921/custom-fields-not-saved-by-wordpress/p1

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The instructions displayed below were tested on WordPress 3.5.1 with MarsEdit 3.5.8 It’s quite easy and involves two steps: 1) Edit the meta.php file in your WordPress installation; 2) Edit the MarsEdit setting for your WordPress blog in order to configure Yoast’s plugin custom fields. All in all it should take you five to fifteen minutes. Faster if you’re familiar with editing PHP file.

1) First using an FTP client go to the root folder of your WordPress installation and locate the folder wp-includes;

2) In this folder, locate the file meta.php Just to be safe download a copy of it: if something goes wrong during the editing, you will always be able to revert back to the original file.

3) Using an editor (such as TextWrangler or TextMate) open the meta.php file and perform a search for “is_protected_meta” You should be able to find the following snippet of code around line no. 854:

/**
* Determine whether a meta key is protected
*
* @since 3.1.3
*
* @param string $meta_key Meta key
* @return bool True if the key is protected, false otherwise.
*/
function is_protected_meta( $meta_key, $meta_type = null ) {
$protected = ( '_' == $meta_key[0] );

return apply_filters( 'is_protected_meta', $protected, $meta_key, $meta_type );
}

You don’t need to change everything only the line that start with `$protected` This WHOLE line should be changed to the following:

$protected = (( '_' == $meta_key[0] ) && ( strpos($meta_key, "_yoast") !== 0));

That’s it. You’re done with editing your meta.php file.

4) Now head over to MarsEdit. In the Main Window (Window>Main Window), locate your WordPress blog in the column on the left (it may be the only one or you may have multiple blog set there running on various platforms).

5) Right-click on its name and choose “Edit settings” from the drop-down menu that appears.

6) In the “Edit settings” window, choose the tab completely on the right: “Custom Fields”

7) Depending on how you use Yoast’s plugin (which official name is “WordPress SEO”) you need to create three or four of those custom fields. I don’t use meta keywords, so I only need three. For each of those field whose name will appear in the left column, you’ll need to assign a “Server Custom Field Name” in the right column. I did it like this (the dots are only there to replicate the table: they divide between the left and right column you’ll find under the “Custom Fields” tab:

SEO Title.........._yoast_wpseo_title
SEO Desc........._yoast_wpseo_metadesc
SEO FW............_yoast_wpseo_focuskw

Click “OK” (lower right) and you’re done. It worked for me. What it does is fill Yoast’s plugin fields on WordPress with the proper value you will have created in MarsEdit. You can test it simple by creating a test post in MarsEdit: fill all the fields with the value you want, set the post for “draft” instead of “publish” and send it to your blog. Then, head over to your WordPress dashboard to see if all the fields are there.

Hope it helps some of you.

P.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2233/wordpress-security-and-marsedit-adding-server-password-to-wp-admin Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:49:44 -0400 Parneix 2233@/forums/discussions
I would like to add an .htaccess file to the wp-admin folder of my installation in order to protect the login process with an additional password (server side). I was wondering though if MarsEdit –which I love to use– would still be able to upload post to my WordPress blog.

Thanks!

P.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2397/help-for-marsedit-for-non-technical-new-user Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:03 -0500 handforthblogger 2397@/forums/discussions I've downloaded a trial version of MarsEdit for my MacBook and am learning how to use it but there are no Help or Setting buttons. I've seen both referred to in the forums, but on mine I have none!
Advice needed.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2394/how-to-start Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:24:43 -0500 RetiringFellow 2394@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2389/capitalize-new-sentence Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:34:01 -0500 witzer 2389@/forums/discussions
I am trying to look for any settings that will format the new sentence with capital letter. Currently I couldn't find it or did I miss out anything? I've got TextExpander and set Capitalize New Sentence on. Somehow Marsedit does not seem to be affected by the TextExpander setting.

What is the setting it Marsedit to capitalize new sentence?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/1493/please-update-date-in-drafts-view- Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:56:00 -0400 1493@/forums/discussions
So, I'm over my near heart attack of a few minutes ago.... and, no hard feelings. ;-)

I had spent a few hours editing an existing Wordpress Page, saving (but not publishing) as I went.

I made some changes I didn't like, and closed the window w/o saving the changes.

Then I double-clicked the existing Page in the Main Window, and felt viscerally ill when I saw the old Page load into the edit window. And I mean OLD, like, "Wow, when is this version from?"

Went to drafts (which is a pretty long list) and sorted by date, but nothing from today. When I scrolled around in drafts and the date on this page showed last July, when I first posted the page. Around then I think I screamed out loud and my vision got a little blurry and I felt sorta dizzy....

But it turns out the draft was current.

Yea!!

But wow, what a scare. Could maybe the draft dates be updated on save? There may be a reason not to, but let's balance that against this sort of potential panic, please.

Cheers,
Michael J.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2388/upload-drafts-to-blogger Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:28:24 -0500 cozy 2388@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2291/squarespace-6-blogs Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:11:31 -0400 ploafmaster 2291@/forums/discussions
I was wondering whether anybody had set up a Squarespace 6 blog with manual settings. I tried the auto-detection method and it didn't seem to work, but I can't seem to find the API endpoint URL and blog ID the way folks have indicated (I think that info is elsewhere for Squarespace 6).

Any help?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2339/log-in-to-google-account-loop Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:11:14 -0400 Helen 2339@/forums/discussions My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I'm a newbie and couldn't find an answer in the first four pages of the MarsEdit forums. ]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2365/cant-set-post-status-to-unpublished-in-marsedit-3-5-8 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:44:01 -0500 professormac 2365@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2385/format-menu-align-in-html-view Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:28:39 -0500 Rod 2385@/forums/discussions
(My workaround is to open a new post, switch to Rich text mode, copy the html code, then close that post without saving, and paste into the post being written/edited. That works, but it's a real pain.)

Thanks,

Rod
]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/1976/wootumblog-support- Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:01:37 -0400 Cafeine 1976@/forums/discussions
I just launched a reworked version of my blog (http://www.cafzone.net if you want to see the result) and I wanted to know if MarsEdit can support the Tumblog "categories" ?

With the custom fields, I managed to make it ALMOST work, but I still miss the tumblog stuff. :/

Check those pics ->

WP Admin : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1553796/_tumblog_admin.jpg
ME Post edit : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1553796/_ME_admin.jpg

The missing part is the "tumblogs" categories at the bottom of the sidebar in WP Admin.

Btw, you need to update that UI so all the custom fields don't "uglify" it that much. ;)

Thanks for you help.

PS : Marsedit maybe my most used software since my 1st Macbook Pro around 2005. Thx again for that awesome software and the AWESOME anti-crash feature years before Lion. Saved my ass more than once. :)]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2208/marsedit-wordpress-com-code-syntax-highligting Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:07:51 -0400 einari 2208@/forums/discussions I have the latest and greatest of MarsEdit and is looking at migrating some old blog with code in it over to a new wordpress.com blog I've set up. Problem is syntax highlighting of this code. Wordspress supports the [sourcecode] tags, but MarsEdit adds
and other formatting within those tags and it really screws up when it gets published.

Is there anything I can do to avoid MarsEdit from doing this, or a plugin for MarsEdit that enables code blocks or something. I'd really love to avoid having to dive into HTML to be able to do this.]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2371/using-marsedit-to-publish-posts-results-in-double-tweeting-of-post-via-feedburner Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:33:40 -0500 iicblog 2371@/forums/discussions
We use Feedburner to auto send tweets of newly published posts to twitter.

Recently, we've been seeing double tweets of posts on twitter. I think it is related to MarsEdit whenever we use the program to publish posts. Today, we saved posts as drafts and published from within Wordpress--no duplicate tweets.

We're going to do more testing to see if it is indeed MarsEdit or not. ANyone else experiencing this?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/1960/syntax-highlighting-and-marsedit Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:45:14 -0400 ddosen 1960@/forums/discussions
I'm using MarsEdit (v3.3.1) to publish to a Wordpress (v3.2.1) blog using SyntaxHighlighter (SyntaxHighlighter Evolved v3.1.3)

When I create post that has embedded code and save it locally, the preview in Mars Edit doesn't look how it will on the web, but that's OK - as I can still edit the code in HTML view. It will be formatted correctly by the server. For example, here's a post with code, I've saved locally, then pushed to the server, and everything looked fine:
http://cl.ly/372K0v1C3p381j1G0L0P

Unfortunately, if I want to round-trip the post, and edit it from Marsedit after it's been published, many of the syntax characters get escaped when I open the entry to edit:
http://cl.ly/0s2x0W2F1B0K0q1D0S13

Which means I can't round trip an entry. I saw a previous post on the form that required newer versions of php and libxml2 (of which I'm running new versions, 5.3.7 and 2.7.8 respectively...)

Any idea what's causing this?

Thanks in advance,
Dan
]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/1353/marsedit-for-the-ipad Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:09:33 -0500 1353@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2237/is-mars-edit-stripping-quote-marks Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:38:25 -0400 Rod 2237@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2309/why-do-we-need-marsedit- Sat, 25 Aug 2012 01:10:14 -0400 mc2 2309@/forums/discussions So who is using MarsEdit ?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/969/joomla-support Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:37:36 -0500 969@/forums/discussions I have read several "hacks" and workarounds, but have not seen anything regarding direct support.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2375/setting-featured-image-in-wordpress Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:01:39 -0500 dixonge 2375@/forums/discussions
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.4 (down near the bottom of that page)

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15098

Does this help?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2383/can-refresh-append-to-the-local-cache-instead-of-overwriting-it Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:53:56 -0500 bleepnik 2383@/forums/discussions
Generally speaking when you refresh, it overwrites the local "cache" of posts with the most recent posts from your blog.

Because of this, I have my (Tumblr) blog settings set to something silly like 200, instead of the recommended 10-30. This currently covers all my posts, but eventually I know I'm going to have to increase it to something even sillier. Is there any way that refreshing can append to the local cache instead of overwriting it? This is especially important because, since I can only use MarsEdit on my Mac, it's a near certainty that I'm going to be blogging using other platforms and clients and wanting to later make sure those posts are brought into MarsEdit. That way, I could keep the setting at 10 and not have to worry about the existing cache disappearing.

Thanks for your consideration,
Nik]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2366/how-to-set-font-size-of-edit-window-and-in-post-to-blog- Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:53:54 -0500 denise 2366@/forums/discussions Has something changed?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2380/how-get-auto-detect-url-to-work Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:06:35 -0500 Beestly 2380@/forums/discussions http://www.acceleratehealthpc.com. I tried adding the xmlrpc.php for the API endpoint but it hasn't helped. Any idea? ]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2381/tumblr-images-and-posts Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:51:59 -0500 Evermore707 2381@/forums/discussions http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2382/not-seeing-all-my-posts Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:02:11 -0500 Casey 2382@/forums/discussions
Any clue why my saved/published posts don't show up in my post list from time to time?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2378/image-captions-for-wordpress Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:22:38 -0500 holgerheinze 2378@/forums/discussions
How can I set captions for all Image that I upload using Marsedit? The captions are very important for SEO, as I am sure is well known, and opening every single image in the Wordpress web backend to add captions kind of takes away the advantage to use Marsedit.

Again: maybe I am just missing something?

Thanks in advance for any advice!
Holger]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2376/controlling-where-tumblr-posts-are-relayed Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:18:03 -0500 lovelifepractice 2376@/forums/discussions
Is the tumblr API keeping this close to their chests as well as the photo issue?]]> http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2374/wp-3-4-2-get-recent-posts-error Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:12:10 -0500 mkalina 2374@/forums/discussions
I keep getting a "get recent posts error" when MarsEdit connects to my WordPress blog. The error message is this:

> Can’t get recent posts for mkln.org because the server reported an error: server error. requested method metaWeblog.getRecentPosts does not exist.

I checked the settings for my site and everything looks good. API Endpoint URL is https://mkln.org/xmlrpc.php - which is perfect. Everything else is also fine.

I have also checked whether I have XML-RPC activated - I do. I use several Plugins but to my knowledge non of these interferes with XML-RPC.

Could you point me into a direction on where to look next to find out what is blocking communication between MarsEdit and my site?

Thank you,
Michael]]>