Are You Using any Blogging Wizards?
 

For those of you blogging your sponsor hosted galleries and programs, are you manually creating each post by entering directly into your blogging software (like WordPress), or are you using 'wizards' to speed up your entries?

I found that using the 'rich text editor' of WordPress is too sluggish (esp. when switching from RTF to raw HTML) and when it tries to 'help out' with syntax, I end up spending more time dealing with the tool than the content.

How are you guys making out?

Do you turn off the RTF mode?

yes that editor will totally screw you up. So frustrating. I cant believe they actually include that piece of shit.

For my manual blogs, i do the coding in another program. Say Dreamweaver, then i just copy and paste the code into wordpress html mode

Exactly, and it's the simple stuff that can sometimes through you into an endless loop of fixing up missing element delimiters.

wbloggar is my tool of choice for most chores

try wbloggar ... better choice to get your blog content ready

hahaha nobody is spilling the beans... something's amiss in this thread, oh yea, is all those ppl using autobloggers.

I'm using windows live writer, it's free and easy to use and very fast:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oogle+Sea rch

Thumblogger supports all the blog editors, you can find a list of free and paid blog editors on this page:
http://www.thumblogger.com/blogapi/newindex.html

with so many years of notepad webpage creation I just turn off the rich editor and type directly into wp

Ditto.

The flash is in the templates. The blog entries is just typing, once you get rid of that nasty "rich" editor.

Exactly. The rich (aka bitch) editor is often counterproductive.

do all the html in dreamweaver code view, then open the HTML box in wordpress and paste it in

Is autoblogger being used for blog scraping?

I saw a post where someone pulled off a blog's contents through their RSS feed, added their own affiliate codes around the original content's keywords, and republished the 'scraped site'.

They claimed that autoblogger did that for them.

Is that possible?

That sucks if blog scraping through RSS feeds is the next content theft wave.

Yes it is possible and not necessarily with autoblogger either. Theres a few out there as well as plugins for wordpress that do this sort of thing.