It also provides Zemanta integration, which is great for those of us who have come to rely on the Zemanta plugin for finding images and related links. You can enter text as HTML, Markdown, or in a WYSIWYG editor. ScribeFire isn’t a Mac native app, it’s a browser extension for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox that provides an editing experience that is quite a bit better than WordPress’ default TinyMCE text editor. The only real downsides to MarsEdit are that it’s rather expensive and doesn’t have an accompanying iOS app. MarsEdit also has a handy feature that allows you to create a template to match your blog, so you can get an accurate preview of your article before publishing. It provides a very pleasant editing experience, integrating well with OS X and applications like iPhoto and Aperture.
It is compatible with a large range of blogging software including WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, and many others. MarsEdit is the leading desktop blogging application for Mac. Fortunately, for WordPress users who care about using aesthetically pleasing and well-designed applications, there are a number of apps in the Apple ecosystem that make writing and publishing articles to a WordPress blog a more pleasant experience. While the WordPress admin dashboard and text editor have improved enormously, and there are signs that they’re going to get even better, writing and publishing are still not as smooth and trouble-free an experience as they might be. That’s particularly true of applications that have been around for a long time and haven’t yet overcome the clunky interface of their early days. However, web apps still have trouble offering the kind of user experience that a native application can. I’m going to start moving over old posts from my former Micro.Blog site soon.Web apps have come a long way in recent years, both in their design and user experience. So it will be here for at least 24 months, and hopefully by that time I will have gotten the urge to stray out of my system. What is even better (for you, dear reader, if in fact you actually exist) is that 24 months is a long time compared to how long I usually go before I move my site.
But when I went to sign up, not only did I find that it was much cheaper, but with the promo code PRICINGSAVE20_785F (valid through August 31st, 2019), my account will only cost about $6/month for 24 months. Well, to be honest, I thought WordPress on was going to cost me like $15-20/month, which was more than I wanted to spend. Why did I wait this long to go back to WordPress?
I’ve always liked MarsEdit, and I’ve owned a license for it for as long as I can remember, but most of the various sites that I’ve tried didn’t work with it.
A few times.īut WordPress is everywhere, including on iOS with Shortcuts, and (perhaps especially) on the Mac with MarsEdit. WordPress has always seemed like the best choice, except that I didn’t want to do it on a cheap, shared host like I had done it before ( cough Dreamhost cough) which was terrible (although that was a number of years ago now). I once wrote a post in Markdown on the website and then couldn’t edit it in the iOS app because it was a "complex document" or some nonsense like that. But Squarespace is expensive, and their iOS apps are terrible. Of all of them, I wanted to like Squarespace the most, because it seemed like the coolest one, although that could be because I listen to a lot of podcasts. I think I’ve tried all of the various platforms now.