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Ich habe mir vorgenommen, wieder häufiger zu bloggen und bin dabei direkt in ein Problem gelaufen:
Stolperstein 2FA bei WordPress-Zugriff per XML-RPC (Wordfence)
https://schacknetz.de/stolperstein-2fa-bei-wordpress-zugriff-per-xml-rpc-wordfence/

#Wordpress #Wordfence #2FA #XMLRPC #MarsEdit

Ich habe mir vorgenommen, wieder häufiger zu bloggen und bin dabei direkt in ein Problem gelaufen:
Stolperstein 2FA bei WordPress-Zugriff per XML-RPC (Wordfence)
https://schacknetz.de/stolperstein-2fa-bei-wordpress-zugriff-per-xml-rpc-wordfence/

#Wordpress #Wordfence #2FA #XMLRPC #MarsEdit

Ich habe mir vorgenommen, wieder häufiger zu bloggen und bin dabei direkt in ein Problem gelaufen:
Stolperstein 2FA bei WordPress-Zugriff per XML-RPC (Wordfence)
https://schacknetz.de/stolperstein-2fa-bei-wordpress-zugriff-per-xml-rpc-wordfence/

#Wordpress #Wordfence #2FA #XMLRPC #MarsEdit

Ich habe mir vorgenommen, wieder häufiger zu bloggen und bin dabei direkt in ein Problem gelaufen:
Stolperstein 2FA bei WordPress-Zugriff per XML-RPC (Wordfence)
https://schacknetz.de/stolperstein-2fa-bei-wordpress-zugriff-per-xml-rpc-wordfence/

#Wordpress #Wordfence #2FA #XMLRPC #MarsEdit

Ich habe mir vorgenommen, wieder häufiger zu bloggen und bin dabei direkt in ein Problem gelaufen:
Stolperstein 2FA bei WordPress-Zugriff per XML-RPC (Wordfence)
https://schacknetz.de/stolperstein-2fa-bei-wordpress-zugriff-per-xml-rpc-wordfence/

#Wordpress #Wordfence #2FA #XMLRPC #MarsEdit

@danielpunkass hi, what do you think about buying a MacBook 12" Core M processor only for #MarsEdit?

I really like #MarsEdit for simple blog posting from the #Mac. It doesn't hold a candle to the #WindowsLiveWriter/#OpenLiveWriter apps on #Windows, but I don't spend as much time sequestered away in the back room where the ultra-technology lives and this app serves the minimal purpose I need it for.

I've been taking another look at #SetApp. Damn it. I don't have the money to spare on a sub right now but it includes MarsEdit, #Dato and some other Mac stuff that I like. Hmm.

I really like #MarsEdit for simple blog posting from the #Mac. It doesn't hold a candle to the #WindowsLiveWriter/#OpenLiveWriter apps on #Windows, but I don't spend as much time sequestered away in the back room where the ultra-technology lives and this app serves the minimal purpose I need it for.

I've been taking another look at #SetApp. Damn it. I don't have the money to spare on a sub right now but it includes MarsEdit, #Dato and some other Mac stuff that I like. Hmm.

I really like #MarsEdit for simple blog posting from the #Mac. It doesn't hold a candle to the #WindowsLiveWriter/#OpenLiveWriter apps on #Windows, but I don't spend as much time sequestered away in the back room where the ultra-technology lives and this app serves the minimal purpose I need it for.

I've been taking another look at #SetApp. Damn it. I don't have the money to spare on a sub right now but it includes MarsEdit, #Dato and some other Mac stuff that I like. Hmm.

I really like #MarsEdit for simple blog posting from the #Mac. It doesn't hold a candle to the #WindowsLiveWriter/#OpenLiveWriter apps on #Windows, but I don't spend as much time sequestered away in the back room where the ultra-technology lives and this app serves the minimal purpose I need it for.

I've been taking another look at #SetApp. Damn it. I don't have the money to spare on a sub right now but it includes MarsEdit, #Dato and some other Mac stuff that I like. Hmm.

I really like #MarsEdit for simple blog posting from the #Mac. It doesn't hold a candle to the #WindowsLiveWriter/#OpenLiveWriter apps on #Windows, but I don't spend as much time sequestered away in the back room where the ultra-technology lives and this app serves the minimal purpose I need it for.

I've been taking another look at #SetApp. Damn it. I don't have the money to spare on a sub right now but it includes MarsEdit, #Dato and some other Mac stuff that I like. Hmm.

Aight #Mac #software nerds. What would be a good local client for Wordpress that allows you to create blog entries? Something similar to #OpenLiveWriter for Windows (https://www.openlivewriter.com) or the now-defunct #WindowsLiveWriter?

I've found #MarsEdit. It looks really good, but it isn't free. Need free or freemium. Anything better out there? Needs to have an xml-rpc interface etc that allows direct publishing to a self-hosted WP site. https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

Aight #Mac #software nerds. What would be a good local client for Wordpress that allows you to create blog entries? Something similar to #OpenLiveWriter for Windows (https://www.openlivewriter.com) or the now-defunct #WindowsLiveWriter?

I've found #MarsEdit. It looks really good, but it isn't free. Need free or freemium. Anything better out there? Needs to have an xml-rpc interface etc that allows direct publishing to a self-hosted WP site. https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

Aight #Mac #software nerds. What would be a good local client for Wordpress that allows you to create blog entries? Something similar to #OpenLiveWriter for Windows (https://www.openlivewriter.com) or the now-defunct #WindowsLiveWriter?

I've found #MarsEdit. It looks really good, but it isn't free. Need free or freemium. Anything better out there? Needs to have an xml-rpc interface etc that allows direct publishing to a self-hosted WP site. https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

Aight #Mac #software nerds. What would be a good local client for Wordpress that allows you to create blog entries? Something similar to #OpenLiveWriter for Windows (https://www.openlivewriter.com) or the now-defunct #WindowsLiveWriter?

I've found #MarsEdit. It looks really good, but it isn't free. Need free or freemium. Anything better out there? Needs to have an xml-rpc interface etc that allows direct publishing to a self-hosted WP site. https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

Aight #Mac #software nerds. What would be a good local client for Wordpress that allows you to create blog entries? Something similar to #OpenLiveWriter for Windows (https://www.openlivewriter.com) or the now-defunct #WindowsLiveWriter?

I've found #MarsEdit. It looks really good, but it isn't free. Need free or freemium. Anything better out there? Needs to have an xml-rpc interface etc that allows direct publishing to a self-hosted WP site. https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

@forpeterssake @mlanger I'd love to switch to an SSG, but image uploading is a hassle. Doable, but a hassle.

I like opening Marsedit, type, add image, Publish.

https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

#marsedit

I just discovered my blog writing tool MarsEdit allows me to post to Mastodon!
#marsedit #blogging #microbloggin

Lazy question— can I set up #MarsEdit to publish to my #11ty based blog via GitHub?

https://redsweater.com/marsedit/

@andricheli
@henrik
@dhry
@rscottjones
Thanks for all your input, I guess I’m sticking with #AppleNotes #MarsEdit and #Scrivener for notes, blogging and long form documents/writing

In a possible lifetime first, I discover a singular instance where Past Me was not, in fact, a dick.

https://microblog.rjomara.com/2024/03/08/cornerstones-part-ii.html

#Indieweb #personalwebsite #blog #marsedit

Cornerstones laid! The site now has an About page, a Contact page, and a /now page. And it was so much fun and so easy to do! A big thanks to @marsedit on making hard things easy.

https://microblog.rjomara.com/2024/03/07/laying-down-the.html

#Indieweb #personalwebsite #blog #marsedit

Does #MarsEdit work with #CraftCMS, #KirbyCMS, or #GhostCMS?

Nem tudom mi értelme van, de lehet Mastodonra blogolni MarsEdit-tel. (bezzeg a Writefreely-re meg nem, pedig annak több értelme lenne) #marsedit

@andypiper @davebriggs Just got the update and started using it. If you are used to MarsEdit it is a great update. Some neat features as when you add a picture you get the menu for image size, format and a field for Alt. text description. And more Brilliant. #MarsEdit

Testing from MarsEdit 5.1Additional post from original

#marsedit

And it looks like the new MarsEdit 5.1 update does indeed work well with Mastodon. Great job @danielpunkass #Mastodon #MarsEdit

Testing. Testing. Testing.
Testing the new update of MarsEdit 5.1 to post on Mastodon.
#Mastodon #MarsEdit #testing

Looks like #MarsEdit, my blogging software of choice, has just implemented #Mastodon support. This will really streamline posting #cycletour updates, blog links, and photos, because I can blog and post here using one app.
#blogging #software

If you blog and use a Mac, MarsEdit is a fantastic tool.

https://redsweater.com/blog/4036/marsedit-5-1-mastodon-support-is-here

While I wait for #Marsedit to implement Mastodon (now in beta), I realise that this feature could be implemented by other #writing_apps: #Logseq and similar and, of course, text processors.

Sorry, #Marsedit’s Mastodon coverage is already in beta: https://redsweater.com/blog/4027/marsedit-5-1b2-mastodon-beta-progress I should have checked before saying anything.

Am I the only one who thinks that #Marsedit should work with #Mastodon?

Link: https://red-sweater.com/marsedit

@danielpunkass Any plans to support Micro.blog cross-posting options in MarsEdit’s New Post dialog?

https://www.manton.org/2023/02/23/adding-perpost-crossposting.html

@manton mentions “syndicate-to” fields. Could those be set up as custom fields?

#MarsEdit #MicroBlog

🧵Some of the things on the list to recommend to readers of my comic are #Owncast #Pixelfed, Micro.blog, omg.lol, #MarsEdit #BookWyrm and my favorite RSS readers. Does anything else feel like part of the early web that I should recommend.?

@lime_juice_cube I don't have advice except to say I'm in the same boat. My blog at judisohn.com is on #Wordpress too on a cheap personal plan. I don't have the patience to move it to a different host and re-configure it. I can't justify paying $20+ a month just to get plugins and better themes, so I deal with it. It helps that I use #MarsEdit so I don't have to be in the horrible editor as much.

Sending another #Wordpress #plugin question out for some #fedihelp:

I’m currently using @simon’s [Mastodon Autopost](https://wordpress.org/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/) to automatically post to Mastodon when I publish a new post on my blog. It works great, and I can recommend it — as long as you only or primarily post using the WordPress web interface.

However, the plug-in is _only_ triggered when publishing a post through the WordPress web interface. Any time I post through an app (like #MarsEdit from my Mac or the official WordPress mobile app on my phone or tablet), nothing goes to Mastodon. So I either have to then go into the web interface and manually trigger an update to the post with the “Send to Mastodon” option checked, or just skip out on using anything but the web interface at all, which I’m not a fan of (especially on mobile).

I’ve asked the plug-in author, and they’ve said that this is just the way it is.

Any recommendations for a way to do the same thing (autopost links to Mastodon when I publish a post to my Wordpress blog) but have it work when publishing to my blog when not using the web interface?

Software Review: #MarsEdit version 5

I haven’t done anything like this before, so please, be gentle 🙂

I first heard of MarsEdit when I was browsing Gruber’s website and I saw it listed in his Essential Apps. At the time I was using Hugo as my “content manager” for my blog, so I moved on. Fast forward a year-or-two, I migrated to WordPress.

A week-or-so ago Gruber blogged about MarsEdit 5.0, so I decided to give it a go.

After 10 days of using it, here is my feedback.

First Impressions

I downloaded the app from Red Sweater Software’s website, at the time I didn’t know that it was also available on the App Store. A simple Zip file which contained the App, I moved it to the application folder and I started it.

Right from the start, it asks you two simple questions: Your blog’s name and the address.

I entered my Armenian blog’s name “Ազատութիւն Ամենեցուն” and address “անդրանիկ.հայ”. As you have noticed, it’s a unicode domain 🙂 This info will be important later.

MarsEdit automatically figured that I’m running WordPress and that it should use the WordPress API!

The interface is nice and intuitive. At first, you will see information about your blog, It’s made of two “parts”

At the top is list of your posts and pages
At the bottom is a live preview of your selected page/post

The live preview doesn’t actually fetch things from your server, instead, you can have a template. Luckily, you can edit the preview settings and download your template. Unfortunately, there was (is?) a bug and MarsEdit was not able to download the template of my blog. First thing that came to my mind “I’m using a unicode domain, that might be the issue!” and turns out I was right. As soon as I added my English blog with its domain (the one that you’re reading right now!) the “Download Template…” button worked like a charm!

The Editor

This is, easily, the best editor I’ve seen for blogging.

You start with selecting your blog (1) and the post type (2), you can give your post a title (3), but turns out that’s not mandatory at all. As you start typing in the input box (4), you will notice the toolbar at the top (5), which has the basic formatting buttons such as Bold, Italic, Underline. There’s “adding a link” and paragraph formatting. For example —

This is a plain paragraph style

This is a quoted paragraph style

And this is a preformatted paragraph style

Depending on your theme, it will look different in preview/website and in the editor.

You can (and should!) also add tags (6), which MarsEdit will autocomplete while typing and select Categories (7). There is also the option to specify a “Featured Image”, I’ve never used this in MarsEdit nor in the WordPress editor, so no comments from me!

Finally, you can specify the server settings (9), such as the status of the post (Published, Draft, etc), Password protection, author (I actually DO run a multi-author blog!), comments and TraceBacks!

But the most impressive feature for me is the ability to save things locally, hence the Edited (10) at the title bar! I’m mostly on the move (well, not these day, it’s cold outside), while I don’t travel a lot, I do have daily work-things, such as going to a government office, a bank, a notary office, etc., which means I’m either commuting or waiting for my turn. While I have a mobile internet with me, we all know how old buildings are not built for the wireless era, so it amazes for me that I can just ⌘S and save my post locally to continue later.

All the local drafts are available in the… Local Drafts 😅

Amazing Niceties

The first nicety that I noticed was in the editor and it’s called “Typewriter Scrolling”. It does exactly what it says. The input box’s cursor will always be at the middle of the editor.

The second nicety is that everything is customizable, and I mean everything! For example, I blog a lot with coding samples, so I need a code tag. All I had to do was to go to Format → Customize… and I was able to create a new HTML tag for my code formatted text. Like this:
uname -a

And the final nicety that I noticed was the editor’s integration with TimeMachine-style restore points. I wish if every software had a feature like this!

Common (Personal?) Issues

I wasn’t planning on writing this review, at all, but since I wanted to try out MarsEdit before purchasing it, I wanted to use it intensively. In the last two weeks we had a Capture The Flag hacking competition and an Armenian InfoSec conference, so I blogged every details of these two events using MarsEdit. Actually, I was an organizer of the CTF competition, so I used MarsEdit to blog about everything from server installation, platform setup to “the food is here!” status updates 😄

That’s where I had my first issue! I set the Paragraph Style to Preformatted and I pasted some code, here’s how it looked like, if the code was multi-line;

It took me a while to realize, that I had to 1) set the Paragraph Style to Preformatted 2) Paste the code by doing Edit → Paste HTML Source. I’m not sure if this is an issue with my theme or not, but in case you get a similar issue, that’s how to solve it! Now, the code looks perfect 😇

The only other issue that I had was with the microposting feature, which is new in MarsEdit 5. It looks like a “status update” on Twitter or Mastodon.

When I first used this on MarsEdit 5, MarsEdit crashed. So finally, I’d like to talk about how

Daniel Jalkut is Amazing!

Like I said, I used MarsEdit 5 as soon as it came out, and the “New Micropost” feature crashed every time. Just 6 days after its initial release, Daniel released MarsEdit 5.0.1 which fixes the Micropost issue that I was having.

Finally, I send an email to Daniel saying

Greetings Daniel! how are you?

Looks like that MarsEdit is not crashing after upgrading to Version 5.0.1 (10611), however, a small question (feature request?):

In MarsEdit -> File -> New Post, I can set the Kind (Post Format) to Post, Aside, Status, etc.

I was wondering if there was a built-in way to make sure that my micro-posts are always set to Status? Microposts with no title look silly on WordPress, but in Status mode they look like a twitter/social-media status update!

I was wondering if I can implement that by using the Custom Fields tab in Blog Preferences.

Let me know!

Daniel replied to me just an hour later saying

Hi Antranig – this is a great idea and I’ll try to get it added as a preference ASAP. I’ll let you know when I have it in there!

Daniel

Conclusion

MarsEdit 5 is amazing. Currently it costs $59.95 for a Single User license and $89.95 for a Family Pack license (5 people in a private household), and let me tell you, it’s totally worth it!

MarsEdit 5 is my Christmas gift to myself.

If you are also a blogger who uses one of the platforms that MarsEdit supports (WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, TypePad, Movable Type, and any blog that supports a standard MetaWeblog or AtomPub interface) and don’t want to open your browser every time an idea comes to your mind, then MarsEdit is for you.

P.S. WordPress’s Block Editor is also amazing. The WordPress team has done an amazing work with Gutenberg. And while I’ll be using MarsEdit for my personal blogs while writing from my Mac, Gutenberg has been amazing with my other WordPress blogs while writing from my FreeBSD laptop! Give that a try too! 😉

https://weblog.antranigv.am/posts/2022/12/marsedit5-review/

#blogging #macos #marsedit

In Search of a MarsEdit Equivalent for iOS: Really, what I want is an iOS version of MarsEdit. But failing that: any recommendations? (#iOS #macOS #markdown #MarsEdit #Wordpress)

Full post on Eclecticism: https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2022/12/10/in-search-of-a-marsedit-equivalent-for-ios/

A question for #macOS #WordPress bloggers who use Red Sweater Software’s excellent #MarsEdit: What’s your go-to mobile #iOS blogging tool?

MarsEdit (https://redsweater.com/marsedit/) is a great example of a “do one thing and do it really well” piece of software, and I’ve yet to find anything equivalent for mobile blogging. I just want exactly what MarsEdit gives me: A list of my most recent posts and pages, a solid plain-text #Markdown editor, and access to all the standard WordPress fields and features.

Every other editor I’ve tried either doesn’t do one or more of those things or is otherwise not quite right in some way. #Ulysses was the closest and I tried it for a while, but while it’s a great editor, it doesn’t pull a list of posts and pages from the blog, just works with whatever’s local or in its own cloud sync or Dropbox or whatever, and last time I used it, had a bug where alt text wasn’t getting applied to images correctly.

(The WordPress native app drives me up the wall. I don’t want block editing. I want text and Markdown.)

Really, what I want is an iOS version of MarsEdit. But failing that: any recommendations?