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Image Captions for Wordpress

holgerheinze — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:22:38 -0500

Another question for image handling I haven't been able to find in the forums:

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

Controlling where Tumblr Posts are relayed

lovelifepractice — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:18:03 -0500

I'm trying to figure out if there are ways to use MarsEdit to manage a couple of tumblr blogs I run for clients. The thing is, I'd like to be able to schedule out posts to go on a delay, and I'd also like to control whether or not a post is relayed to the company's twitter feed or facebook page. Both can be done via the twitter webpage, but I'm greedy...I'd like an all-in-one client for the WP blogs I also run.

Is the tumblr API keeping this close to their chests as well as the photo issue?

WP 3.4.2: Get Recent Posts error

mkalina — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:12:10 -0500

Hi,

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

Adding photos to a normal Tumblr post

dixonge — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:01:24 -0500

Ok, this one caught me off guard! I have a big Tumblr post ready to go. I try to insert a photo into the body of the post and MarsEdit switched the 'kind' over to Photo! I don't want to make a photo post, I just want to make a text post and include a photo! Unfortunately it does not seem that this is possible.

VERY disappointing! Am I missing something? I have found no other way to insert a photo here...

Supporting Google Blogger Pages

obscurebug — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:27:33 -0500

When configuring a Google Blogger blog in MarsEdit only "Posts" are configured (cf. Posts and Pages for WP). I was messing with configuring a new blog substituting "posts" with "pages" in the URL and it mostly works, which makes me wonder if it would be easy and worthwhile to enhance MarsEdit to support this properly.

I found that when publishing new "Pages" they are shown as "Hidden" in the Blogger control panel (and can be dragged up to make them active). I don't see an obvious way of controlling the hidden/unhidden property from MarsEdit. I also found that deleting a "Page" removes it from MarsEdit, but sometimes leaves it in an inconsistent state on the blog. The page seems gone, but it is still referenced in the title bar of the blog. Updates to existing pages seem fine, so it's not a huge deal given the frequency of page addition/deletions. Drafts seem to work.

Consider an option that will save all MarsEdit posts to the local hard drive:

jseliger — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:26:28 -0400

I like MarsEdit in all ways except one: it didn't offer a way to save automatically posts as local text or HTML documents. This is pretty important to me because I drop all my blog posts into Devonthink Pro when I'm done with them.

About a year and a half ago I sent a feature request about this to Red Sweater's support, not long after I bought MarsEdit. Today I opened it for the first time in a year or so, mostly to see if this feature had made it in any updates. No dice. So let me request it here!

EDIT: And, two years ago, I left a comment in a separate thread. I'd forgotten about that!

Backing blog up locally?

Geordon — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:37:45 -0500

Is there some (relatively easy) way that I can export all of my blog posts locally so that I can back them up and import them to DEVONthink? I would really like to be able to put my blogs into my DEVONthink installation so that I can index and search them going forward.

MarsEdit and Wikipedia

stasik — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:22:53 -0500

I have a few posts created in Word. When I copy and paste them into MarsEdit, some of posts get automatically populated with links to Wikipedia and the others are not. Cannot work out what is the difference. is there a way to have them all populated with the links automatically?

Can MarsEdit upload photosets to Tumblr?

nik — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:34:07 -0400

It looks like the photo post type from MarsEdit to Tumblr will only handle one image. Is there any way to get it to do a photoset/slideshow?

Wordpress Custom Post Types and Taxonomies

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:29:49 -0400

Hi! I was wondering if MarsEdit does or will support Custom Post Types and Taxonomies in Wordpress.

I'm just getting back into blogging and have several blogs updated to Wordpress 3 and I'm currently playing with the revamped Custom Post Types and Taxonomies, which I really like.

If this is already possible in MarsEdit, could you please show me how to use it? If not, would you consider adding support for them in the future?

Thank you!

Line breaks removed in version 3.5.8?

Fahim — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:25:07 -0400

After upgrading to 3.5, if I refresh the posts on my blog, I notice that the posts now have all the line breaks stripped from them. Some of the posts I'm editing have preformatted text and all the text now shows up as a single line instead of being nicely formatted and on multiple lines. When I examine the HTML, that too is all together in one big clump instead of being nicely formatted. Is this intentional or an unintentional result of code changes?

If the change was intentional, is there a way to turn off this behaviour so that those of us who work with the HTML view (and preformatted text blocks) can still have the text displayed in a nice, ordered fashion?

iCloud Syncing?

JustinLuey — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:43:31 -0400

I just did a clean install of Mountain Lion and when I installed Coda 2 all my sites and settings were automatically there. I think this would be a great feature for Marsedit. Not only do a lot of people have multiple Macs, but we are all anxiously waiting for the iOS version.

importing iphoto comments

lobsterman — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:41:10 -0500

With the lovely new media manager having an image-with-caption option, can I create a preset or use Applescript to insert the photo Comment (from iPhoto) into the placeholder (Alt text?) for the image?

Posting across multiple blogs

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:27:08 -0400

Fantastic product!
Am wondering if there is a way to post "a post" to multiple blogs, without re-entering the text/data for each?
I.e. "Send to Weblog" goes to my Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad blogs.

Smiles
Daniel

Repository of Applescripts for ME?

lobsterman — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:47:11 -0500

Is there a repository anywhere of AS scripts for ME?

Zemanta support in Mars Edit - Please reconsider? + additional feature request

designlabCPH — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:42:17 -0400

Hi guys,

I'm testing out MarsEdit and it's really cool - apart from one lacking thing: Support for Zemanta images. That would really make my month!
It would make it so much easier to have images at your fingertips for your blog-posts, and not having to search them all out first or add them later, when you have found the right one.

I've searched the forum and find posts like this one: http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/comment/10268#Comment_10268 which is quite old... And worthy of note is that recently Zemanta has been added to Google docs as well as support other types of blogging applications (but sadly those apps are for windows).

I seriously think it would be a great time to reconsider adding support for this, as that really would optimise the blogging experience for your customers, as well as be a great sales-point by now. Much have changed since 2011 ;)

Another thing that would be really cool, would be the posibility to share the post you have just written, via i.e twitter, facebook, google+ and/or linkedIn. Especially the first 2 would be my preference.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. I'll most likely end up buying MarsEdit anyway, but I REALLY would love to see the Zemanta support inside the app. :)

Notational Velocity and MarsEdit

scribe — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:06:11 -0400

Most of my blog posts start as a markdown-formatted note in Notational Velocity. When I get them to the “almost done” stage I copy the text of the note and paste it into a new blog post in MarsEdit. Then I put on the finishing touches in MarsEdit and post to my blog from there.

Is there a simple way to automate the process of moving the post from Notational Velocity to MarsEdit? It’s a bit more than “select all; copy; switch; new post; paste” because I also want the title of the note to be the title of the post. I don’t know if it matters, but my NV notes are stored as individual text files in the Finder.

TIA

Missing Title field + cannot remove the unneeded Photo field

jinjiru — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:49:55 -0500

Suddenly I cannot turn on the Title field + I have this useless (for me) Photo field which creates an ugly bit in the preview and I cannot turn this field off:
http://d.pr/i/BqRX
http://d.pr/i/cbZc
Is there a way to fix it?
Mountain Lion - latest updates, MarsEdit 3.5.6
Thanks!

Joomla 2.5 compatibility?

bmilhorn — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:25:09 -0500

Unlike previous versions of Joomla! 2.5 seems to have a distinct lack of support for offline blogging solutions, which is one of the reasons I purchased Marsedit to hopfully get it to work with a native 2.5 installation. (E.G. regular content vrs components like EasyBlog)

Has anyone had any luck with getting Marsedit 3.5 to work with the native Joomla 2.5 CMS content? I've tried several plugins XMLRPC replacements, etc and nothing has worked for me thus far. I really need a solution and am willing to donate my time to working with anyone who is developing one. Or if you have gotten it working on your site please share how you did it and the steps involved, I'm sure many of us in the Joomla community will be very grateful if you do!

Filling in All in One SEO on WordPress

Mac20Q — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:14:44 -0500

Is it possible to fill in the fields for All in One SEO plug in using MarsEdit? It would be great if I could do all the jobs I need to do in MarsEdit

Applescript code for adding attachments (a png and a pdf)

enlivendesigns — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:24:40 -0400

I downloaded the trial this morning and have it working with my applescript perfectly to write and send a post. But it isn't useful to me unless I can script adding an image to display and a pdf with a download link (even better if the image can link to the pdf)
I looked in the dictionary for marsedit and found some entries for attachments but not sure if that is what i'm looking for or the syntax on how to use it. Any help is appreciated, or even just letting me know that it isn't gonna work. Thanks!

(And I really appreciate the 30 day trial to test it and see if it will work for me before buying. thanks!)
Here is my blog to give you an idea of how my posts look: enlivendesigns.us

More tag after 150 characters?

::Lisa:: — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:07:43 -0400

I'm back to using Wordpress and my Genesis child theme automatically shows blog excerpts on the home page of 150 characters. However, I'd like to use the tag for RSS purposes which include the image too instead of the standard Wordpress summary excerpts.

Is it possible to automatically set the more tag at 150 characters in MarsEdit?

I'm not even sure that would work with Wordpress? Basically, I want RSS readers to see an image and then post excerpt of 150 characters (like the homepage). However, if I set post excerpts to summary, it doesn't show the image in the feed, nor email subscription. I want the email subscription to show the entire post but the RSS readers to see the image and then 150 characters of wording. If you look at my homepage ( www.sweet2eatbaking.com ) there's the main image, then 150 characters of wording before the 'continue reading' link.

Does that make sense?

Additional Question about backup.

urangin — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:45:00 -0400

Hello, i'm korean customer.
Thank you for fast reply.

Q1.

I followed your method.
http://www.red-sweater.com/forums/discussion/2354/how-can-i-make-backup-#Item_3

But, i can't find MarsEdit directory.
Of course, i followed directory below.

OS X Root(Home)/Library/Application Support/

Where is MarsEdit Folder?

Q2.

MarsEdit directory is saved on Local Drafts Only? or Loaded Blog post and Local drafts?
And attachment data is included?

How can i make Backup..

urangin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:12:25 -0400

Hello, i'm korean customer. MarsEdit is useful program for me. Thank you.

Two days ago i bought Macbook Pro Retina.
Then i want move post data to Macbook Pro Retina. (form Macbook Pro13)

I want make backup my post in local disk. my post data is saved on Local Drafts. (Not published)
How can i make backup this?

OS X version is Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

MarsEdit forces WP private pages out of the closet

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:49:26 -0400

I just noticed that editing a WordPress page with MarsEdit forces that page to become a "public" page. WP has the concept of private pages documented at http://codex.wordpress.org/Content_Visibility and a private page can be treated in various ways by a WP theme. Usually themes will prevent these pages from showing up in navigation bars and menus. When MarsEdit saves a page, this "private" flag is lost and the page lands in the navigation. Not good.

Also, this makes me wonder what other sort of hidden metadata is being eliminated or reset when I edit a page with WP. This may be a WP problem for all I know. Maybe WP does not share these settings in the first place? In any case, it is pretty much a showstopper for editing private pages.

Does anyone have a solution? Is the private flag the equivalent of a "server custom field name" for example? If so, maybe I can just define it in MarsEdit?

Please respect whitespace in Extended Entry (for WordPress)

George the Flea — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:32:18 -0400

I've been testing out the Extended Entry field for working with a new WordPress blog, and am running into a problem: MarsEdit always submits this to the server, regardless of leading/trailing whitespace:

...end of the entry text.Starting of the extended entry
...

This is a problem, because it causes WordPress to render this markup to the page:

...

end of the entry text.

Starting of the extended entry

...

In other words, it nests the H2 in the preceding paragraph, which is decidedly NOT what I want. If I edit the entry in the WordPress admin screen, I can get my desired markup by doing this:

...end of the entry text

Starting of the extended entry
...

And when MarsEdit pulls that in, it shows the extended entry starting with a pair of newlines (as I would expect). However, if I save an entry from MarsEdit with newlines leading the extended entry, they get stripped out and I'm back to square one.

I'd really appreciate it if, at least for WordPress blogs, you respected the whitespace at the end of the entry and beginning of the extended entry. I don't see that I have much choice about this except to avoid the extended entry feature completely in favor of manually inserting tags currently (which is unfortunate, because there's a nice usability improvement for this particular project when using a separate field for extended entry, as I always have the same sort of standalone information down there).

Posting to Marsedit from Fever

arabist — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:58:23 -0400

Anyone know what the code should be to send items from Fever RSS reader (http://feedafever.com/) to Marsedit?

I wanted to adapt the code from the Marsedit bookmarklet - is there any documentation on the syntax Marsedit accepts?

I would guess it would be something like this:

marsedit://url=%u;title="%t";

But I'm not sure whether things need to be encoded or escaped. Any thoughts?

Request: Could the 'send to blog' button label reflect post status?

chartier — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:04:49 -0400

Let me start by saying this is not a request to make MarsEdit work more like Tumblr. It's just a UX observation that I think could help improve MarsEdit.

When you create a new post on Tumblr's site, there's a big green "Create Post" button that, once tapped, will indeed create and publish your post. But if you change the post status from "publish now" to "save draft," that button's label changes to "Save draft" to help reinforce that the post will not be published now, but saved for later.

On a few occasions, I've set a MarsEdit post status from "Published" to "draft," spent some time crafting the post, then hit "Send to blog" because I want to add images up in the CMS, share it with my co-writers, or what have you. Then I crap my pants because I couldn't remember if I had indeed set it to draft, so I rush to log into the web CMS and check to make sure.

It would super neat if you could consider making the "Send to Blog" button label match the post status if the user changes it, helping to reinforce exactly what's going to happen to that post once it floats up to the cloud.

Applescript syntax for editing published post

nik — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:54:29 -0400

What is the proper syntax for editing an existing post? It seems as though I can only apply edits to "documents" (open windows?), but cannot turn a post into an editable document.

Insert Bulleted List Works Only For the First Line?

brucespear — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:50:53 -0400

I've written a list then selected it and clicked "Insert Bulleted List" and find a bullet in front of only the first line, the code looks like this:

Notes, Notebooks, Sync, and Accounts

Using white space, bold and italic sub-heads

How to create numbered and unnumbered lists and tables

How to create links and drag in images

Sync with your smart phone or tablet

I've also tried creating a first bulleted item and then "return" before writing the second, but no go.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Thanks for any tips!

Bruce Spear