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Change starting Post status to draft rather than published

Flaneur — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 04:40:57 -0400

Hi,
How can I change the Post status to automatically be draft unless I change it to published rather than the other way round? I have looked in the preferences and not fond an option. I would prefer it this way round so that there has to be a definite decision to publish. Thanks

AppleScript cannot save new posts/documents

nik — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:04:31 -0400

When I create a post via AppleScript, I cannot save it and close it. Close works fine, but then it prompts to save. If I send a "save" handler, it doesn't save and the script hangs until it times out. I'm trying to make a large series of posts at once to migrate a blog from one platform to another, so having close and save work properly is key.

Here is an example script. It does the same thing for any save command or "close with saving".


tell application "MarsEdit"
	set myBlog to blog "Foo"
	make new document
	tell document 1
		set title to "Bar"
		set body to "Baz"
		set current blog to myBlog
		save
		close
	end tell
end tell

img links - media markup template

jem — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:36:50 -0400

I need to ask about how ME uses the templates for image links. I wanted a custom flickr link, that is I wanted to style the content a bit using CSS so I made a template that looks like this (with added spaces so it displays here)

< div class="flickrimage">< img src="#fileurl#" height="#imgheight#" width="#imgwidth#" alt="#displayname#">< p> #displayname#< /p>

What I get is

< div class="flickrimage">< a href="xxxxxx" title="yyyyyy">< img alt="zzzzzz" width="500" src="aaaaaa" height="334" / >< /a>< p> gggggg< /p>< /div>

The interesting part for me is the "/ >" ending of img tag. Why is that inserted? As far as I understand, http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#h-13.2, there shouldn't be a '/' before the closing '>' here.

When I click "Preview" the Preview window is blank

Frauenfelder — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:43:56 -0400

The Preview function was working for me. Then it worked intermittently for a couple of weeks. Now it doesn't work at all. Quit and restart doesn't help. I trashed the database file in the Library folder, too. Still no joy.

Formatting of images

mhoffman2001 — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:23:58 -0400

I'm coming from Windows LiveWriter, and really want MarsEdit to be my Wordpress blogging platform on my Mac - it's the best I've found out there. However, the single biggest feature I miss from LiveWriter is the image formatting.

In LiveWriter, I bring in an image (say 1200 pixels wide) and tell LiveWriter to format it 600 pixels wide. Perhaps I may even add something like a drop shadow or other border effect. Then, the full res image is uploaded, but displayed in my blog post at the reformatted size. When a visitor to the blog clicks the image, it opens into the full size view (default is to view as a page, but I have my blog configured to use slim box).

With Marsedit, if I tell it 600 pixels in Media manager, that's all I get, no interactive larger view. If I tell it 1200 pixels, I get a 1200 pixel wide image in my post that bleeds over into the sidebars.

Am I doing it wrong? At this point, all I can do is set it to upload at 1200 pixels, then go to my Wordpress blog and edit the post online to resize the image and insert the handling code to open the image on click... it would almost be easier to write the post directly in Wordpress...

I look forward to being shown the "right" way :-) Thanks in advance...

mh++

Flickr "Insert Photo Size" Randomly Unavailable

dixonge — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:31:48 -0400

I have double-checked the uploads to Flickr. Entire set uploaded at 1024. But when inserting into a post, many of the images do not allow changes in photos size. The option is simply greyed out.

Today is the first time I have seen this issue. This feature has worked for weeks now before today.

Any ideas why this would start happening?

Feature Request - Full AtomPub Capability (IBM Connections)

Philozopher — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:15:07 -0400

I currently use MarsEdit for my Blogs, but I see that it has the potential to be used to edit practically anything in IBM Connections because its primary API is AtomPub. At a minimum, I would LOVE it if I could edit Wikis in MarsEdit because that would be a huge benefit to my workflow with local saves until I'm ready to release Wiki updates.

IBM connections has many different "applications", and if ME could be configured to connect to a "site" rather than an individual Blog, I would be able to use it as my primary IBM Connections Editor. This would make it unique among all software that I am aware of on OS X, Windows, and Linux. The only thing that even comes close is the Mobile Connections application developed and released by IBM.

You can read all about the Connections APIs at the following link:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lcwiki.nsf/dx/IBM_Connections_API_overview_ic301

Regards,
Dave

Removing Old Published Media?

::Lisa:: — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:52:37 -0400

Let me explain, I've been using MarsEdit for the past 8 months for a blogger blog I had on my own domain. I've now switched from Blogger to Wordpress but the domain name remains the same. When I switched, all I had to do in MarsEdit was to re-fetch my blog information and it correctly switched over the settings for me. Therefore, although the same account, Blogger settings have been completely written over by Wordpress settings (which was what I wanted).

I now need to edit some of my posts and move across my photos so they're not on Blogger's server. I've started uploading the photos already to my Wordpress media area and I intended on using MarsEdit ,for ease of use refreshing, to edit my posts with the Wordpress images rather than Blogger image links.

However, when in MarsEdit when viewing media that is already published under the correct account, it doesn't show me the Wordpress uploaded content but only Bloggers photos I've uploaded in the past. Is there any way to remove this content from still showing? Obviously, I'd prefer it to show the Wordpress content now instead.

I've tried refreshing and quitting, etc but it still shows it.

Thanks in advance,
-Lisa.

Feature Request: Expanded Status Options

dixonge — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:56:41 -0400

I just added the 'Edit Flow' plugin, and part of what it does is add additional status options (Assigned, In Progress, etc.) - MarsEdit does not seem to see these. I am guessing that you have hard-coded Published and Draft status options. But as it stands now, if I use the Edit Flow calendar, schedule a post and assign it to a writer, MarsEdit will no longer see that post unless I leave it in the draft status.

What chance is there that you could 'pull' the status from WordPress?

Is there a way to force MarsEdit to backup all posts?

sgmiller — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:14:28 -0400

I seem to have only a partial set of my posts in my Backup folder and going back only to April 2011 although I have posts since 2007. I was wondering if there was a way to force the program to create a complete set if backups. If not, this would be a VERY helpful feature.

Feature request: LJ ScrapBook

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:53:05 -0400

I would really love if MarsEdit supported LiveJournal's ScrapBook service for uploading pictures. I have a somewhat image heavy journal and this would save me so much work!

I would buy a copy of MarsEdit in a heartbeat if this were the case.

Thanks for your time. :)

I wrote in Markdown, I sent Markdown, I told it to use Markdown, but now it's HTML

luomat — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:16:34 -0500

I have "Text Filter" under "Server Options" set to "Markdown" in the "Compose" window.

In the settings for the blog, I have "Preview Defaults - Preview Text Filter" set to "Markdown" and I have "Post Editor - Server Text Filter" set to Markdown.

When I send the post to Squarespace, it ends up as Markdown, but MarsEdit shows it in HTML.

How do I preserve my lovely Markdown?

p.s - HTML drools, Markdown rules.

Custom fields not saved by Wordpress

macography — Sun, 29 May 2011 08:06:30 -0400

Hello,

I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue that I am having when posting to Wordpress using ME. I have installed "All in One SEO" and added three custom fields to the ME blog settings: _aioseop_title, _aioseop_description, _aioseop_keywords.

After I publish a new post to WP with the aforementioned custom fields filled out, two things happen:

1. The custom fields don't appear in WP
2. If I double-click the post just published, the custom fields that I populated only a couple of minutes before are empty.

One thing that I have noticed is that if I fill out those fields from the WP web interface and sync the blog in ME, the custom fields content becomes visible in ME. It looks like as if ME has a problem communicating with WP.

Looking at the Network Log in ME I can see that:

- The custom fields are being sent to WP:

key
_aioseop_title

value
Bla bla bla

...

- Looking at the server response, I can't see any reference to thee custom fields at all.

Some additional information
- The "All in One SEO" is enabled in WP
- I have also reproduced the same behavior with "Yoast SEO plugin" which would suggest that the issue is not with the plugin itself.

I am not 100% sure that this is an ME issue at this point. I am trying to narrow the problem down somehow. Maybe the problem is simpler than I think... Any help appreciated.

Best regards,
Ricky

Mountain Lion Support?

Fahim — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:42:30 -0400

Just upgraded to Mountain Lion GM seed and tried launching MarsEdit and it immediately crashes. I realize that Mountain Lion isn't yet out and MarsEdit might not support ML yet but just wanted to check if this was the case or if this was a known issue which is curently being worked on?

Two-Factor Authentication

kapurcell — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:07:59 -0400

Any chance you might support 2-factor authentication or do you now? If so, how can I turn it on.

Wordpress I can not configure any of the blog

Forloc — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:34 -0400

Hi, Wordpress 3.4.1 - I can not configure any of the blog at url http://lambertini.net/diab/ , Thank

Editing with Espresso

dennistoun — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:30:05 -0400

When editing with Espresso, the post I am working on does not update after saving the file and closing the window. Text Mate and Test Wrangler work just fine, but I prefer Espresso.

Anybody else had this problem?

some features I'd like to see

htmljenn — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:04:47 -0400

I've been using MarsEdit for several years now, and it seems to be the best offline blog editor out there. Congratulations.

However, there are some features that would make it work a lot better for me:

* special characters - I couldn't find any way to insert them. I LOVE the WordPress special characters bar so that I can add things like — (em dash) and non-english characters like ë (ë) without having to remember the HTML codes for them.

* wider full screen mode - I wish full screen was really that, but all I get is a narrow column taking up the full height and width. It's nice that everything else is hidden, but it still doesn't use the real estate available effectively

* customizable edit menu - It would be cool to be able to put the tags and codes that I use the most in the edit menu, so that I can access them quickly.

* better error messages - when I typo'd the xmlrpc location, I got a message saying that there was a 404. But not for what. I ended up on a Japanese site translated by my browser to tell me where to look for the problem. And when I input my self-hosted WordPress blog, it just said it couldn't auto determine the settings.

* but why couldn't it? - the xmlrpc.php in all my blogs is in the same place (the root directory). How hard would it be to make an educated guess about the file being in the root of my URL and the blog ID being 1, and then if those facts aren't true, THEN making me fill in the fields myself.

* an option to NOT store my passwords in the keychain - some of my blogs I don't want automatically grabbed, I just want to fill in the password every time - yes tedious, but much more secure, especially on a laptop that could easily be stolen.

* password protection on MarsEdit directly - this would also solve the above problem. If I could lock down the entire program behind a password, I wouldn't worry as much about the passwords in the keychain.

That's probably enough. :-) And if it already does any of these things, I'd love to know, so that I can improve how I use MarsEdit.

Again, thanks for all that you do, I do love your program, and think it's a great offline blog editor. I would love to see it get even better.

Tumblr: Post date/time changes to now when updating a post

willhains — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:06:43 -0400

Hi,

I noticed that when I make an edit to a post, for example to add an "Update:" at the end of the article with new information, the post date on Tumblr is updated and it jumps to the top of my blog. This is never what I want to happen and I end up having to go to Tumblr to update the post date directly.

Is this a limitation of Tumblr's 3rd-party API, or a setting I couldn't find in MarsEdit?

Cheers,
Will.

Request: Newsletter post selection

whitetoque — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:38:05 -0400

Daniel,

I wonder if it would be possible with MarsEdit to:
- Select posts
- Concatenate selected posts into a newsletter format

I think it would be possible to script most of this, but I don't seem to be able to select a group of posts.

Keith Lockhart

Just purchased-features

jamiebd — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:43:08 -0400

Hi, I just purchased MarsEdit, and I'm kind of surprised by a couple of things.

1) The inability to edit or size an image within the edit page. Ya, I see that you can resize the image within the Media Manager window. But I can see having to go back and forth trying different sizes till I get the image the size I want. I figured I'd be able to right click on the image in the Post window and do a resize there. Would also be nice if I could do some basic editing like crop.

2) The inability to Wrap text around a image. That you can only place an image in line with the text, but not have the text wrap around the image was kind of disappointing.

3) Also with images, no ability to upload a thumbnail and have it display a larger image when you click on it. I do a far amount of technical blogs with screenshot, and really need to have the ability for the reader to click on the image in the post and see the image larger.

4) In the Post section, I know that can't be total "what you see, is what you get", but it would be nice if you could at least set the width so it's the same as what your blog is.

Overall, after all the buzz that I read about MarsEdit on line, I has to say that I'm really disappointed in the features that it's lacking. I have a feeling that I'm going to end up using MarsEdit to "rough out" my posts, and then have to go to SquareSpaces online, web-based tools to get my post to look how I want them to look.

I honestly was expecting more.

As I said, I just purchased MarsEdit within the past couple of days, so hopefully, some of this is just operator error, or my inability to find things in the menus. I hope so.

Thanks

Joomla 1.5 Installation w. Mars Edit

ollimuc — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:09:11 -0400

Hi there!

I'm looking for a simple desktop solution to feed one of my Joomla websites with text on a daily basis for a blog. It seems like MarsEdit is the only possible solution on a Mac running Lion. But: Joomla isn't supported out-of-the-box.

I did find a few discussion concering how to make MarsEdit run with Joomla, but most threads were rather old. So, here's my question: Can anyone give me any helpful pointers on how to make this combination work?

Looking forward to any input!

Ollie

Movable Type and custom fields?

JeroenSangers — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:30:49 -0400

I am trying out MarsEdit for my Movable Type blogs, and so far am very happy. The only thing I haven't been able to get to work are the custom fields. Does it work at all for MT? If so, how exactly do I have to configure it?

How can I have my images always "upload with post"

AndrewWarner — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:35:24 -0400

Every time I add an image to a post, I get the exact same dialog box. And every time I see that dialog box, I make the same exact selection.

Is there any way to make that selection my default?

I just want my images to always upload with my blog post so I can avoid being interrupted by the dialog box.

edit specific post ID?

zenfish — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:12:09 -0400

Is it possible to get a specific post ID within wordpress without loading the entire body of posts leading up to the old post with refresh? For instance I've > 50k posts and I wanted to edit postid 4777 - it's a bit impractical to set the wayback machine to grab the last 46000 posts, but it'd be simple to type in the postid (or have a search function that you could type in a title and it'd just keep searching until it exhausted all possibilities or found the match you're looking for, something like apple's spotlight/find feature.)

Thanks for any suggestions.

RAW images

Cams — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:29:55 -0400

Am I correct in assuming that Mars Edit can't render RAW images for posting from Lightroom? All it seems to see is a thumbnail. If this is the case, is there a plug-in for Mars Edit to enable it to read and post RAW files?

Markdown preview?

Cams — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:28:38 -0400

I'm into my first half hour of using Mars Edit as a newbie. It's hooked up to a self-hosted Wordpress installation. I tried writing a post in Markdown and publishing it. The preview didn't render the Markdown, nor did Wordpress. How do I get it to do that?

When I create a new Local Post, where does that reside?

rbruning — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:27:55 -0400

Can it be stored on Dropbox? I'd like to be able to start a blog post on one computer and finish it on another. I do this a lot in other programs where I save the document into Dropbox. I looked all over and can't seem to find a separate file. Is it saved within the application itself and can I use the above technique in any way?

Tumblr Drafts and Queue? (and maybe video?)

JustinLuey — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:59:22 -0500

Is it possible to send posts to Tumblr as a draft or add it to your queue?

And if not, will you be adding that feature?

My posting with marsedit stays as concept on my blog (blogspot)

davinakeyner — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 05:04:10 -0400

Maybe somebody can help me? I have made a blog on blogspot a while ago, with my PC with livewriter. Now i have a new MacBook Air and i'm using marsedit now for posting on my blog. But when i've made a draft in marsedit and then posting it, there's nothing on my blog. But it is saved in blogspot as a concept.
Am i doing something wrong?