WordPress:Weblog Client

A Weblog Client is software you run on your local machine (desktop) that lets you post to your blog via XML-RPC. In some cases, the Weblog Client can even manage your weblog entries. You might think of Weblog Clients as the equivalent of email clients such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora Mail. Essentially, the Weblog Client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line; then, the next time you connect to the Internet, you can publish that post.

For information on blogging by email, see Wordpress:Blog by Email.

Advantages

The advantages of using a weblog client include:

1. The ability to write posts without having to go on-line
2. The ability to save drafts
3. A nicer interface
4. Fancy formatting features
5. Features like cross-posting to multiple blogs
6. Faster uploading and addition of photos

List of Client Software:

Windows:

• BlogDesk
• BlogJet
• Blog Writer
• Deepest Sender (Extension for Firefox or SeaMonkey, Cross-platform - Deepest Sender will run on any OS that Firefox will run on)
• Ecto
• Elicit
• Flock
• JBlogEditor
• LIPIDr Blog Client (Freeware, Wordpress only)
• Post2Blog - detailed WordPress instructions
• Post2Blog Express
• Qumana
• ScribeFire (formerly Performancing)
• Semagic
• Zoundry Raven - new product as of Feb 2008.
• w.bloggar
• WB Editor
• Windows Live Writer - link to MS blog announcement for latest version, has d/l link
• WriteToMyBlog - web based

Mac (OS X):

• Ecto
• Flock
• JBlogEditor
• Journler (however blogging is being dropped soon from Journler)
• MacJournal
• MarsEdit
• QTM
• Qumana
• ScribeFire (formerly Performancing)
• TextMate
• WriteToMyBlog - web based

Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets

• DashBlog - detailed WordPress instructions
• RapidMetaBlog
• WordPressDash

Linux:

• BloGTK
• Drivel
• Flock
• Gnome Blog
• JBlogEditor
• QTM
• ScribeFire (formerly Performancing)
• WriteToMyBlog - web based

PalmOS:

• Plogit - open source
• Mo:blog - commercial
• Vagablog - open source

Siemens Phones:

• blog2go

Nokia Phones (Symbian S60 based):

• Wavelog - commercial

Develop Your Own

You can always develop your own. Many scripts in Perl, Python, PHP, Applscript and Java have already been written and are ripe for the picking (and tweaking). If you are planning on developing a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget, start with Apple's very detailed documentation.

Your XML-RPC server/path are as described here:

• If you login to WordPress on http://example.com/wordpress/wp-login.php, then you have:
  • Server: http://example.com/ (some tools will just want the 'example.com' hostname part)
  • Path: /wordpress/xmlrpc.php
  • complete URL (just in case): http://example.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php