While you are there, you can set the default image size to what suits your website layout. Those key fields are Preview Text Filter which should be set as Markdown if you are writing in Markdown and the Treat as Retina checkbox. Try to ignore the noise and just change the few key fields: The editing screen is extremely complicated. MarsEdit is extremely unresponsive while downloading (it gets stuck on a single processor, doesn’t multi-thread) so if you must download everything make sure to do it while you don’t need MarsEdit. 50 posts, all pages and 250 media items are sensible limitations and take about five minutes to download. Depending on the age of your website, the amount of media you have uploaded, the number of your posts, you could spike MarsEdit for hours downloading old posts and media. add the info about how to log into self-hosted WordPress site as a dedicated page in documentation.īe careful about downloading everything. don’t hide the login credential information behind an option key 2. Advice to Daniel to improve user experience: 1. Once you have the right XML-RPC path, you have to hold down the option key and only then, like Aladdin’s Lantern, does the genii come out and offer the opportunity to enter your username and password. The first step is to post in the path to your XML-RPC location here. Sadly it doesn’t work for self-hosted WordPress sites, at least if you are protecting your XML-RPC location which you should be. One: Connecting a weblogĭaniel has been touting his automated connection to a WordPress website for seven years now. Here’s how to set up MarsEdit 5 (or 4) for a Markdown environment step by step. What happens if Jalkut takes ill or simply passes away? MarsEdit is without useful documentation when Jalkut is offline. Daniel is very friendly and helpful is you email him, it’s just that you shouldn’t have to. What’s particularly disappointing is that while Daniel Jalkut has done a great job making MarsEdit capable, he’s done an awful job with the documentation. The MarsEdit interface once configured if not distracting. 1Įven better is to paste the Markdown text into MarsEdit and post from there. When I don’t write in MarsEdit, what I do is write my draft in iAWriter in Markdown and then copy the Markdown code into WordPress. Not to mention that writing in any browser window is a risky business. No matter what we do to reduce the visual clutter, writing in WordPress is just messy. One writes in the browser, surrounded by a horror story of settings and fields. We build sites in WordPress, which offers a fairly awful writing environment. The syntax highlighting could be more comprehensive but what is there does make writing in Markdown easier. Once setup, the only significant different in MarsEdit 5 is some light syntax highlighting for Markdown. MarsEdit 5 features a beautiful new icon, a “Microposting” feature for streamlined short-form blogging, enhanced plain-text editing with built-in Markdown syntax highlighting, a completely rebuilt rich text editor based on Apple’s latest WebKit2 technologies, and a variety of nuanced improvements to make your blogging workflow smoother, and more enjoyable than ever. Here’s what developer Daniel Jalkut has to say about the new version: MarsEdit 5 is equally flexible and powerful and equally hard to set up at MarsEdit 4. There’s few real improvements from MarsEdit 4.
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