Important features used as criteria:

– free windows blogging software;

– must support all major blog engines (firstly Wodpress, Blogger and LiveJournal);

– firefox like misspelling highlighting;

– optionally can simultaneously post to multiple blogs.

So, i found this wordpress codex page with list of wordpress blogging software, browsed and choose some of them to download and test:

– BlogDesk;

– QTM;

– Qumana;

– Zaundry;

– Zaundry Raven;

– Windows Live Writer;

I checked them very quickly and possible dismissed something. I was unable to connect to my blog with QTM and Zaundry Raven threw some error message so  I deleted them from list. So, next list is windows blogging software that was connected and properly worked from 1st attempt.

– BlogDesk;

– Qumana;

– Zaundry;

– Windows Live Writer;

BlogDesk the only free windows blogging software that can simultaneously  publish to multiple blogs. Sometimes it can be useful. But list of supported blog engines is very short. Blogger and LiveJournal are not supported. So, can be used only if mass posting to WordPress blogs needed.

Qumana places some annoying “powered by” message in new post. Deleted.

Zaundry  is very good: big list of supported engines, nice interface, but spelling must be run by user and not comfortable at all for me.

Windows Live Writer the best. Finally some Microsoft software that i like more than opensource analogs. Over all above has amazing preview feature making possible to see how post will be looks like after posting to web.

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So, I post……………………………

………. OK. Posted successfuly to 2 different blogs.

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Suppose we have www.possiblybuiltonwordpress.com site. How to be sure that wordpress really used?

Two ways each of them can be gone manually or programmatically:

1. Go to www.possiblybuiltonwordpress.com/wp-admin. If site built on wordpress — login page will be opened, otherwise 404 file not found.

2. Open page source (with browser or programmatically) and look for meta name=“generator” . Probably

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.8.4" />

will be found.

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whose sheet fault is it?

1. .htaccess file in your root wordpress directory not rewritable (not enough permission).
2. mod_rewrite module of your apache installation is not loaded.
3. AllowOverride directive for your directory set to None.
4. All above together.

What to do?

1. Allow rewriting of .htaccess (on windows uncheck read-only on linux sudo chmod …).
2. Open your httpd.conf file and look for

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

sure it is uncommented. Don’t close file.
3. Look for AllowOverride. You probably will found two, you need second one that is for your directory.
Set it to All.

Is it works for you? It’s works for me.

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