The most stimulating internet trend of the last few years is the return of the blog. People are posting again. Excellent.
I utilize the word “blog” a bit more loosely than I used to. This great rebirth has taken many shapes – for example, email newsletters remind me a lot of the early days of blogging. But I’ve also noticed that in our social media hell, after Twitter and Facebook, more and more people are setting up websites and posting their thoughts on the ones they own. I’ve certainly gotten back to using my personal blog more since I set up the Fediverse WordPress integration – I have an lively comments section for the first time in over a decade and I’m loving it.
The problem for creators is that writing, editing, and submitting articles in the web version of WordPress is quite tedious. Generally, when possible, I prefer to utilize local applications that actually reside on my computer, so I was very elated when I discovered this Marsedit. It’s a lovely Mac app that makes managing your blog so much easier. First, it’s faster than loading WordPress and integrates well with my operating system.
Open the app and you’ll be asked to add your blog URLs – you can add as many as you want. Do this and all your posts and pages will be evident in one place.
Source: Justin Pot
Marsedit works with most blogging platforms
I tested MarsEdit on my WordPress site, but it also works with MicroblogTumblr, TypePad, and Movable Type, as well as any service blog that supports the standard MetaWeblog or AtomPub interface.
In addition to providing a spotless interface to draft posts, adding images is also great – the app integrates with both Apple Photos and local folders on your computer. You can set the size and remove metadata with just a few clicks. In my experience, this is much faster than finding an image and uploading it to WordPress.
Source: Justin Pot
More malleable than most blogging platforms
There are a few more features worth paying attention to. If you’re a Markdown user, you can write your posts with it, which most blogging systems don’t offer – and Marsedit even supports syntax highlighting (if you know it, you know it). You can also write and save your posts completely offline, which of course cannot be done in the browser.
The app is not perfect. I haven’t found a way to utilize it to manage comments, which is disappointing – if it were supported, I would rarely need to open WordPress at all. But for writing, publishing, and editing, it does everything I need.
MarsEdit costs $59.95 for a one-time purchase or $10 per month for a monthly subscription Setapplication, a bundle that includes some of the more popular apps. Whether it’s worth the price depends on how often you blog. I come back to it and consider this app to be a bargain.