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Ever thought of publishing your WordPress posts without logging into your account and with great formatting? Yes, that is possible with the use of the free tool from Microsoft named Windows Live Writer. Let us explore the tool in depth and as an extension of WordPress.
Introduction
Windows Live Writer is a free versatile tool from Microsoft’s Live Essentials pack and stands out for being the most convenient multi-platform blogging tool. This software equips an author with all the necessary tools required for writing, formatting and optimizing their blog posts. Windows Live Writer or simply WLW in short has the best WYSIWYG editor, better media and image insertion options and amazing formatting features.
WLW when used with WordPress allows you to publish your posts directly from your desktop without logging into your admin panel.
Advantages
- Multiple blog platform support
- Retrieve the theme of your blog while creating posts
- WYSIWYG editor
- Backup and Draft feature for your posts
- In-built image editor and enhancer
- Spell checker
- Blog post scheduling
- Along with posts add categories and tags right from your desktop
- Auto linking of posts
- Comments moderation
- Lots of plugins to enhance productivity
- Edit your older blog posts along with new posts
And many more…
“Create all your posts faster in offline mode and then sync when required”
Installing and Configuring WLW
Before installing WLW please login to your WordPress admin panel, under Settings -> Writing check the Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC checkboxes and finally save the changes. This enables the Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC publishing interfaces for your blog, which are required for remote publishing.

You can download the latest software from the official Windows Live Writer 2011 download page, this will install Windows Live Essentials by default. While installing Windows Live Essentials it will ask you to install all the Live products or the specific products. Here you may choose to install only the WLW. The software and hardware requirements for installing WLW are given on the same page.