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Wordpress Desktop Client for Mac

October 15, 2009

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I spend a good bit of my time writ­ing con­tent for my var­i­ous web­sites. Log­ging into each sep­a­rate Word­press or Joomla instance can be time con­sum­ing and annoy­ing — as good as web inter­faces have become they are still no where near as respon­sive as a good desk­top app.

Being a Mac user there aren’t that many fan­tas­tic options for blog­ging soft­ware. I’ve tried MarsEdit and a few oth­ers and was a lit­tle bit less than impressed.

One of my big require­ments is the use of the Word­press Media Man­ager rather than hav­ing to upload images via FTP and insert­ing the images (even if the app does this auto­mat­i­cally it breaks thumb­nails and forces me to log in to the admin which defeats the purpose.

So what are my require­ments for desk­top blog­ging soft­ware? Here’s my short list:

  1. A decent and use­able user interface.
  2. Easy image and rich media handling.
  3. Word­press inte­gra­tion — there is no point in writ­ing a post then be forced to login to for­mat, edit and tweak the post.

That’s really about all that I require. Now I’ve been using MacJour­nal for all of about 5 min­utes here and I’m rel­a­tively impressed. I espe­cially like the full screen edit. It removes any dis­trac­tions and allows me to focus on the con­tent I am writ­ing rather than the Skypes, MSNs, Tweets, Emails and Face­book Updates.

I’m going to plug away with this soft­ware for a lit­tle bit and test out the image and media han­dling. Do you use desk­top blog­ging soft­ware? Let me know if you have any MacJor­nal tips and tricks or sug­ges­tions for other desk­top blog­ging software.

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13 Responses to “Wordpress Desktop Client for Mac”

  1. Justin W on October 27th, 2009 7:37 pm

    I’ve actu­ally been using w.bloggar and find it pretty handy. The ini­tial setup is a bit tricky since their doc­u­men­ta­tion isn’t the great­est but once you play around with it, it works like a charm. Rea­son we couldn’t get it work­ing before I think was cause we didn’t con­fig­ure the proxy set­tings. For a Mac user though, I’ve heard Ecto is pretty pow­er­ful and pretty popular.

  2. Dan Nedelko on October 27th, 2009 8:05 pm

    I tried w.bloggar on my Win­dows lap­top but find Zoundry Raven to be one of the best for a Win­dows plat­form. For my Mac (where I do 99.99% of my work there is noth­ing that comes close to MacJour­nal. In a word, It Rocks.

  3. fishing organizations on November 27th, 2009 12:56 pm

    Mac Jour­nal is the best of the Mac. Ive tried all oth­ers and have to say that Word­press client is good com­pared to most, but there are bet­ter pro­grams out there for mac users.

  4. SEO Los Angeles on December 10th, 2009 3:52 pm

    Would you guys say that MacJour­nal is bet­ter than word­press? I must check this out because you guys are giv­ing good reviews for the MacJour­nal.

  5. Dan Nedelko on December 10th, 2009 3:57 pm

    @SEO Los Ange­les I wouldn’t say that MacJour­nal is *bet­ter* than Word­press. That’s kind of like com­par­ing apples to oranges since MacJour­nal let’s you com­pose your posts on the desk­top then auto­mat­i­cally upload them into your blog (what­ever blog plat­form you are using, Word­press or otherwise).

  6. Start Your Internet Business on December 18th, 2009 9:12 am

    I need some­thing like this for my lap­top, I am so over log­ging into each of my WP blogs to updated or add new posts. Does Mac Jour­nal cost much?

  7. Jim Clark on January 20th, 2010 7:17 pm

    What a won­der­full post dude, thanks for shar­ing this. For sure i will check your another post later, i just book­mark­ing this site. Again happy posting

  8. Latest Health News on February 2nd, 2010 5:09 pm

    Now finally i have made my mind to move some­where else from blog­ger as i tired with the same look with my blog but in word­press or MacJour­nal i think i can shape up my blog rou­tine wise, am i right.

  9. Lowongan Kerja Terbaru on February 8th, 2010 7:59 pm

    Nice Info, i’ll try it :)

  10. affordable seo surrey on March 3rd, 2010 5:32 pm

    I’ll check it out but my per­sonal favourite to date is Mac Format.

  11. Cantik Imut on April 3rd, 2010 3:09 am

    Mac Jour­nal is the best of the Mac. Ive tried all oth­ers and have to say that Word­press client is good com­pared to most, but there are bet­ter pro­grams out there for mac users.

  12. häävalokuvaaja on May 3rd, 2010 2:16 pm

    I use iPhone Word­press app and althought I like it there is still miss­ing a lot of the fea­tures I need. For me the desk­top app is the same as log­ging into Word­press account.

  13. harry on July 28th, 2010 3:57 am

    For me the desk top app is the same as log ging into Word press account.

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