Blog Publishing Client Alternatives

Laura Brown3 appsUpdated Feb 6, 2018

Blog publishing client software are applications which you publish to your blog (on WordPress, Blogger, or other CMS) with a secondary software. This has the advantage of writing posts from your desktop (laptop, mobile whatever) without logging into your site. Also, using the client can keep things less complicated if you just want to write a post and not get into a lot of extras with your CMS. In some cases you can even use a blog publishing client to cross-post between your sites, even those running on different CMS/ software.

Sadly, there are not many reliable blog publishing clients still active. I think this is due to people not really creating and running their own sites any more.

Open Live Writer
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Open Live Writer is an open source application enabling users to author, edit, and publish blog posts. It is based on a fork of the well-loved but not actively developed Windows Live Writer code.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Blog Publishing Tool
Platforms
Windows
Laura Brown’s note
I wish it were more active but it is the best option/ alternative to anything else I've looked at. A lot of features and it works with WordPress, Blogger and others. I actually use it with both WordPress and Blogger sites. I had it working for b2evolution as well. With a little figuring out this and that I think it could work with any CMS.
Windows Live Writer
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Windows Live Writer is one of the most popular blog editors. With a large numer of features WLW is a bloggers best friend.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application type
Blog Publishing Tool
Platforms
Windows
Laura Brown’s note
Officially, no longer supported by Microsoft. Although I wanted to use it, I never did. Dealing with the Microsoft login was a nightmare. Mine would only work once and then make me reset it again. I never remembered any of the passwords or which email I last started in an attempt to quel the Microsoft beast.
SeMagic
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Client for LiveJournal, Blogger, Wordpress Image upload to LJ Scrapbook, Flickr, fotki.com, imageshack.us, Picasa, Yandex Fotki.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Application typeApplication types
Blog Publishing Tool
Journaling App
Platforms
Mac
Windows
Linux
Wine
Laura Brown’s note
Requires a login from LiveJournal. So, this is a bit of a dinosaur these days. Unfortunate, but it did work well last time I tried it.