Announcing Open Live Writer - An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer
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Today is the day. An independent group of volunteers within Microsoft has successfully open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer. The fork is called Open Live Writer (also known as OLW) and it is part of the .NET Foundation and managed by this group of volunteers. Read the fantastic announcement at the .NET Foundation Blog! Download Open Live Writer now!
Windows Live Writer 2012 was the last version Microsoft released and can still be downloaded from http://www.windowslivewriter.com. If you're not comfortable using Open Source Software, I recommend you stick with classic WLW.
If you're willing to put up with some bugs, then join us in this brave new world, you can download Open Live Writer from http://www.openlivewriter.org. We're calling today's release version 0.5.
Here's some of the added features, the removed features, the stuff that doesn't work, and our plans for the future:
- REMOVED: Spell Checking. The implementation was super old and used a 3rd party spell checker we didn't have a license to include an open source release. Going forward we will add Spell Check using the built-in spell checker that was added in Windows 8. Open Live Writer on Windows 7 probably won't have spell check.
- REMOVED: The Blog This API. It was a plugin to Internet Explorer and Firefox and was a mess of old COM stuff.
- REMOVED: The "Albums" feature. It uploaded photos to OneDrive but depended on a library that was packaged with Windows Live Mail and Live Messenger and we couldn't easily get permission to distribute it in an open source project.
- ADDING VERY SOON: Google runs the excellent Blogger blog service. We've worked with the Blogger Team within Google on this project, and they've been kind enough to keep an older authentication endpoint running for many months while we work on Open Live Writer. Soon, Google and Blogger will finally shut down this older authentication system. Blogger will use the more modern OAuth 2 and Open Live Writer will be updated to support OAuth 2. Windows Live Writer will never support this new OAuth 2 authentication system, so if you use Blogger, you'll need to use Open Live Writer.
- BROKEN/KNOWN ISSUES: We are actively working on supporting Plugins. We have an plan in place and we are looking for your feedback on the most popular plugins that you want brought over from the Windows Live Writer ecosystem.
Our roadmap for the future is published here on GitHub.
NOTE: Open Live Writer is NOT a Microsoft product. It is an open source project under the .NET Foundation and is managed and coded by volunteers. Some of the volunteers work for Microsoft and are doing this work in their spare time.
Are you an existing user of Windows Live Writer?
We encourage you to install Open Live Writer and try it out! OLW will run side-by-side with your existing Windows Live Writer installation. Open Live Writer installs VERY quickly and updates itself automatically. Try it out! It's early but it's a start. Please bear with us as we work to improve Open Live Writer.
if you do find bugs, please share your bugs at https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/issues and be specific about what's not working. And please, be patient. We are doing this as volunteers - we are NOT representing Microsoft. Open Live Writer is no longer a Microsoft project, so while we will do our best to support you, let's all try to support one another!
Are you a developer/designer/writer?
We've got dozens of volunteers and a few dedicated core committers. Your Pull Requests and code ARE appreciated, but please talk to the team and comment on issues before submitting any major Pull Requests (PRs). Community is appreciated and we don't want to reject your hard work, so it's best you talk to the team in a GitHub Issue and get approved for large work items before you spend a lot of time on OLW. We welcome http://firsttimersonly.com to open source as well! Help us with our docs, as well!
IMPORTANT HISTORICAL NOTE: Much of the code in Open Live Writer is nearly 10 years old. The coding conventions, styles, and idioms are circa .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1. You may find the code unusual or unfamiliar, so keep that in mind when commenting and discussing the code. Before we start adding a bunch of async and await and new .NET 4.6isms, we want to focus on stability and regular updates.
Building Open Live Writer and making your own personal copy!
To be clear, you don't need to be a programmer to run OLW. Just head over to http://www.openlivewriter.org and download now. However, if you do want to hack on OLW here's how!
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Clone the sources:
git clone https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter.git
At this point, you can build and run inside Visual Studio 2015 Community. It's free to download at https://www.visualstudio.com/free. A solution file for OLW is located at.\src\managed\writer.sln.
- Alternatively, you can build at the command prompt:
- Run
.\buildto compile. The binaries are dropped in.\src\managed\bin\Debug\i386\Writer\ - Run
.\runto launch Writer.
- Run
Going Forward
I know it felt like it took a long time to open source Open Live Writer. In fact, my buddy John Gallant found the first email where we started asking questions in April of 2013. There was a lot involved both legally and technically as we were breaking new ground for Microsoft. Consider this. We've successfully open sourced a previously completely proprietary piece of Windows software that shipped as part of Windows Live Essentials. This software was used by millions and contained code as old as a decade or more. Persistence pays off.
This is just the beginning! Big thanks to the team that made this possible. Specifically I want to call out Will Duff, Rob Dolin, and Robert Standefer who have been there from the beginning offering coding, logistical, and legal support. Thanks to Ben Pham for our logo, and Martin Woodward from the .NET Foundation for his support, Azure Storage account, and code signing certificate! I can't thank everyone here, there's a longer list of contributors on our home page!
We are looking forward to hearing from you and perhaps you'll join us in our open source journey.
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Great progress !
So when the roadmap says "windows 10" - does that mean UWP app?
I think WLW would make a great showcase of a legacy .NET app migrated to Windows 10. Especially dealing with sandbox issues.
So when the roadmap says "windows 10" - does that mean UWP app?
I think WLW would make a great showcase of a legacy .NET app migrated to Windows 10. Especially dealing with sandbox issues.
Congratulations! I know it's been a long, hard fight to make this happen - but thank you for making this happen!
Amazing. This took a while, thanks for making it happen. Going Opensource is not always easy with legacy code. This example shows. Thanks for fighting the good fight.
That is GREAT news...hopefully somebody will add a publish to Markdown from this great tool
Great! Now that Microsoft dropped Windows Media Center, could we please have that open sourced as well! IMHO it is still the most stable and polished media center with recording support.
Fantastic!
I don't suppose any of the volunteers are interested in revamping Movie Maker next?
I don't suppose any of the volunteers are interested in revamping Movie Maker next?
Thanks for awesome work on this. Further I will echo Bill strongly and maybe a little bit Henrik. I am still installing 2012 Live Movie Maker on Windows 10 in schools because it is a decent free option.
Great news!!! Was waiting for it for a long time... Just downloaded but was not able to login with my blogger account credential.
I like WLW since a lot of years and I am happy about this great news
Not sure if that is possible: If available, can the winword spell checker be used? Writing in English is not my native language (and even in German it gets iffy sometimes ;). I find the winword checker to be one of the best and iirc there is a way to use this in other apps.
Either way: Extremely happy that the best blog editor ever is going open source. ;)
Either way: Extremely happy that the best blog editor ever is going open source. ;)
Thanks a ton for all of your effort on pushing to get this open sourced Scott! Truly amazing and I cannot image how hard it must have been to get everything sorted out to get this done. This again shows your importance on the software community.
As the .NET framework has been released as open source software, could it be possible in the long term for the project to go cross-platform?
Awesome work all involved!
So many loved WLW, glad to see it be usable in the Win10 era without needing any hacks to install it :)
So many loved WLW, glad to see it be usable in the Win10 era without needing any hacks to install it :)
This is awesome news! I already have a few contribution ideas ;)
I think I'm more excited about this than I am the open-sourcing of the .NET framework! :P
Fantastic! Will put it to use immediately. Great work Scott & Co.!
Thanks for OLW! Let's hope many millions of posts will be written with it. :-)
"This is just the beginning!"
Interesting. Do you mean that more of OLW will be open sourced or that more projects will follow this example?
I cannot tell you how happy this news makes me. Can't wait for version 1.0!
Awesome, Scott! I've been waiting for this for a long time. Great work. Thank you for the persistence.
This is excellent news.
Another old product I'm *hoping* will also follow this path is MS Money - it's still made available in the Sunset Edition (still better than Quicken is some ways), but would be awesome if it would be open-sourced so that it could be kept up to date.
Another old product I'm *hoping* will also follow this path is MS Money - it's still made available in the Sunset Edition (still better than Quicken is some ways), but would be awesome if it would be open-sourced so that it could be kept up to date.
You guys are AWESOME! Thank you for getting this fantastic tool rolling again. If I have time, I'll try and help out.
Make visual basic 6 (classic) open source, then community will make many interesting things (Like X64 support, Threading) !
I love that this has been done, however I think most of the bloggers now moved to simply pushing markdown files to static blog generators.
It would be cool if the editor would support markdown as well (and make it the best markdown editor out there)
It would be cool if the editor would support markdown as well (and make it the best markdown editor out there)
Not working with Blogger.com may be I missed something, pls check tweet for reference https://twitter.com/aifazk/status/674872614926467073
Next up should be WebMatrix as it's completely dead ... (or as you said, "done"!)
I suspect you don't know the answer to this, but given that this was originally distributed with Windows Live Mail (as part of Essentials), any clues on the fate of WLM (which I love and would dearly like to see get some attention from someone!)?
Hi
I am unable to login with blogger credentials, please fix this fast.
I am unable to login with blogger credentials, please fix this fast.
Would be nice, if a portable version would be released, so it could be used on pen drives.
Hello, really good info. I'm really happy to see, there is a (real) future for Windows Live Writer as Open Live Writer.
I'm still using Windows Live Writer for many websites - without, it would be much more difficult to write (posting into future, posting into past, during traveling without Internet).
However, I have already installed OLW, but missing some features. Some of them already written in your article, like Spell Checking.
Additional a translation to german would be fine and Export/Import/Sync of settings is also a nice feature. At last, at the moment I use the plugin "WLW Post Downloader" to open (old) article from (blog) websites. The necessary url is created directly from the website and showed for user, which have edit rights. It's a theme feature. Don't know if it is possible to add that plugin/feature (support of wlw://website.com/article) - however, a plugin/API system to add more feature would be fine - . some different develeoper is able to add more features, without changing OLW.
I know OLW will need more time for version 1.0 and not all features is necessary for 1.0 ....
I'm still using Windows Live Writer for many websites - without, it would be much more difficult to write (posting into future, posting into past, during traveling without Internet).
However, I have already installed OLW, but missing some features. Some of them already written in your article, like Spell Checking.
Additional a translation to german would be fine and Export/Import/Sync of settings is also a nice feature. At last, at the moment I use the plugin "WLW Post Downloader" to open (old) article from (blog) websites. The necessary url is created directly from the website and showed for user, which have edit rights. It's a theme feature. Don't know if it is possible to add that plugin/feature (support of wlw://website.com/article) - however, a plugin/API system to add more feature would be fine - . some different develeoper is able to add more features, without changing OLW.
I know OLW will need more time for version 1.0 and not all features is necessary for 1.0 ....
Nice work. With WLW I was able connect with Orchard Cms, which is I think the most popular blog engine in .NET world. It seems that Open Live Writer is missing that part.
http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Please use hunspell for Windows 7 spell checker.
Please use hunspell for Windows 7 spell checker.
Excellent news!. Thank you very much for all the efforts Scott and your team. I am very excited to try this open new live writer.
I have one question there. Is all existing plugin for windows live writer will work with this plugin? or not as I am using windows live writer extensively for my blog - http://www.dotnetjalps.com and I need to have some plugin for sharing code and other stuff.
I have one question there. Is all existing plugin for windows live writer will work with this plugin? or not as I am using windows live writer extensively for my blog - http://www.dotnetjalps.com and I need to have some plugin for sharing code and other stuff.
Brilliant news! I've always liked Live Writer - it brought the benefits of working with a proper program rather than working in a browser while still keeping the wysiwyg view of the post.
Great news! Thanks to you, Scott, and the others at Microsoft who worked hard to make this happen!
I'm also not currently able to log in to my Blogger blog using OLW. My Google account is set up with two-factor authentication; I did set up a new application-specific password for OLW in my Google account settings (so no two-step verification should be required), but I got an "invalid credentials" type error when trying to use that password to log in.
I'm also not currently able to log in to my Blogger blog using OLW. My Google account is set up with two-factor authentication; I did set up a new application-specific password for OLW in my Google account settings (so no two-step verification should be required), but I got an "invalid credentials" type error when trying to use that password to log in.
Great news, especially for C# fans where there isn't that much of open source commercial native applications.
Wow, wow, wow! Excellent news.. At last you guys made it. I hope it gives rise to "OLW Plugins" as well - in a big way.
Great news, Scott! Well done!
Is there any talk about offering up the code for the Vista HD version of Windows Movie Maker? That was a fantastic little movie editor that was verging on excellence until Microsoft killed it with its ugly slideshow maker, Windows Live Movie Maker. Thousands of people begged for a proper timeline based option to be restored, but the development team showed an incredible amount of disdain for the fanbase and went ahead with its plans for a poor iMovie imitation. As predicted, the large MM community has largely died away.
With both Live Writer AND WMM revived, I would be a very happy camper indeed.
Is there any talk about offering up the code for the Vista HD version of Windows Movie Maker? That was a fantastic little movie editor that was verging on excellence until Microsoft killed it with its ugly slideshow maker, Windows Live Movie Maker. Thousands of people begged for a proper timeline based option to be restored, but the development team showed an incredible amount of disdain for the fanbase and went ahead with its plans for a poor iMovie imitation. As predicted, the large MM community has largely died away.
With both Live Writer AND WMM revived, I would be a very happy camper indeed.
This is great news! Windows Live Writer was my favorite blogging tool and I'm looking forward to getting back to it with Open Live Writer. I'm excited to see where the community takes it.
This is amazing news! I use Windows Live Writer on both my Wordpress blog and my DreamWidth journal.
Is there any chance Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Movie Maker could have the same revival through open source? I would love to see all of the Live tools reborn in such a manner, but those two and WLW are three apps I use the most.
Is there any chance Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Movie Maker could have the same revival through open source? I would love to see all of the Live tools reborn in such a manner, but those two and WLW are three apps I use the most.
This is great to hear! I've been using Windows Live Writer for many years and it's good to finally see an update (or soon, at least) to it. It still is the best blog post creation tool in my opinion. I've tried tons others but none is as simple and powerful as Windows Live Writer
This is exciting stuff. I'm wondering how many more abandoned Microsoft products will be open sourced. For example I'm still using VirtualEarth3D x64 with my own source data, but there's bugs I'd like to fix and features I'd like to add.
Looks like some time today Google made an authentication change. Old Windows Live Writer is now displaying the dreaded: "Blogger returned the following error Not Found: Not Found." Not sure if they finally activated oAuth. I noticed Open Live Writer so I atempted to install it. Unfortunately it looks like Open Live Write is also affected by the Google change. I get to step one to create a blogger account and when I add my credentials I get "The user name or password is incorrect. Please try again."
Are others having the same issue on Old and Open Live Writer with blogger??
Are others having the same issue on Old and Open Live Writer with blogger??
@mybeerbuzz... I am experiencing exactly the same problem with the old Live Writer and the new Open Live Writer?!? Does anyone know if this will be fixed?
I just went to publish in the Old Windows Live Writer, not even knowing that the open source was coming out and I'm back to the same error from this past May. I get the Notfound:notfound error. Then it asks me to log into Windows Live Writer but it won't take the password that is absolutely correct and I'm in an endless loop. Is this return of the May problem due to the launch of the new open source? Or what's going on and any idea when we will be able to publish from the old one? Would I be able to publish this post from Open Live Writer? I can't believe this is happening again.
I couldn't connect to my blogger account, i find every thing to solve this problem and i find this new. OWL is great, i love it so much, i think it will develop fast if in this time OWL solve blogger connection problem.
Excellent, amazing, very beautiful but... OWL doesn't work: it's not possible connect with Blogger account.
Great idea but it doesn't work. I downloaded Open Windows and it will not allow me to log in.
Seems to me that OLW won't work until the OAuth 2 support has been added (in the announcement above it indicates this is not in place at the moment but is coming soon). It would have been nice if Google had continued the workaround until then, but looks like they already pulled the plug.
Thanks to all the developers who are working to give us this new platform. Your volunteer hours are appreciated.
Thanks to all the developers who are working to give us this new platform. Your volunteer hours are appreciated.
I just went to publish in the Old Windows Live Writer and it came up with Notfound:notfound error like it did in the summer when it was last being altered on your end . I know you are kicking off a new writer but I was just wondering if the old Live Writer will still be working and compatible with blogger or blogspot and when ! I really enjoy using Windows Live Writer for my blog posts .
Also wondering if one does download the new Open Source Live Writer will the program automatically see your logins from the old Live Writer and connect automatically then take it from there or does one have to revamp all the info to connect to ones blog with the new Open Source Live Writer ! I notice blogger and blogspot haven't been working again with any of the live writers since the new launch . I am pleased this has come to light for Live Writer as I do love it so !
Glad to know I'm not the only one having problems! Thank you so much for working so hard to keep this program viable. Will wait patiently for everything to be fixed so using OLW with Blogger works. :)
Very well done to all of you!!!
As you probably know by now, on December the 11th 2015, WLW completely stopped working with blogger due to the authentication method.
I know it is easy for me to ask this since I am not the one crunching the bits to get OLW to work with blogger. However, I kindly ask, if at all possible, to raise the priority on the connectivity with blogger.
As of now, I am in the middle of a project and was relying completely on WLW for editing my posts.
I hope you see this message and that the Developer's God place his hands upon all the developers writing this new platform. :-) Specially above the head of the ones working on making it work with blogger.
Many thanks
Daniel
As you probably know by now, on December the 11th 2015, WLW completely stopped working with blogger due to the authentication method.
I know it is easy for me to ask this since I am not the one crunching the bits to get OLW to work with blogger. However, I kindly ask, if at all possible, to raise the priority on the connectivity with blogger.
As of now, I am in the middle of a project and was relying completely on WLW for editing my posts.
I hope you see this message and that the Developer's God place his hands upon all the developers writing this new platform. :-) Specially above the head of the ones working on making it work with blogger.
Many thanks
Daniel
When I saw this I thought "Great now I can edit content for my blogger.com blog pages".
But no I can't. Username and password not recognised. I guess Google's platform is not yet supported..
But no I can't. Username and password not recognised. I guess Google's platform is not yet supported..
Thank you!! The single best piece of blogging software ever and it has a new lease on life. It's working flawlessly with WordPress. I can wait patiently for future features like spell checker and maybe someday Tweets embedded and a mobile app. Truly amazing and excellent work.
OH for the love of Pete, WHY did you stop Live Writer if Open Live Writer can't even be used yet?! I am flabbergasted. Hope there is a solution soon.
I'd like to give it a try and hack something like jekyll or octopress into it. I'm guessing it might be done, right?
Well Hi Guys,
Great news about this upgrade. But, as of yesterday 10th December both the original WLW and this new version are coming up with the "Not found Not Found" error when trying to upload. If I remember rightly this happened back in June or July sometime and took a few days to rectify. No probs since then. (I have a Blogger blog with a redirect).
Please can you test this out and see if there´s a fix? I find Blogspot´s own editor hard work as I upload lots of photos. (No copy and paste).
I know all my settings are right, I can log into my google account but both WLW and your version are saying incorrect username / password. Then the error.
Not happy.
Great news about this upgrade. But, as of yesterday 10th December both the original WLW and this new version are coming up with the "Not found Not Found" error when trying to upload. If I remember rightly this happened back in June or July sometime and took a few days to rectify. No probs since then. (I have a Blogger blog with a redirect).
Please can you test this out and see if there´s a fix? I find Blogspot´s own editor hard work as I upload lots of photos. (No copy and paste).
I know all my settings are right, I can log into my google account but both WLW and your version are saying incorrect username / password. Then the error.
Not happy.
I have same problem, but i think its all.. "The user name or password is incorrect. Please try again." I hope it will done, Thanks
Great news about Open Live Writer. I would love to use it, but alas am getting the same error message as the other Bloggers. Hope there's a fix soon.
Blogging beyond browser becomes better. As you published Open Live Writer, and thanks for your great work, and WordPress delivers (a both, WordPress as well as WordPress.com Platform-dependend solution called) Calypso you both give the user back the control we lost as the new Social Media moved to closed Platforms like Facebook and Twitter. I <3 it.
This is AWESOME!
I was thinking about using Live Writer with my Surface. Please resurrect the Ink Blog Plugin as well!
Is there a team working on InkSeine?
Thanks for all you are doing!
~Eric
I was thinking about using Live Writer with my Surface. Please resurrect the Ink Blog Plugin as well!
Is there a team working on InkSeine?
Thanks for all you are doing!
~Eric
Hi, I'm Laura and I have a foodblog, this morning I saw my old version of window live writer doesn't work. I would know if the new Open Live writer can run with windows 8.
If yes I would to download it soon because otherwise I don't know how to write and publish my posts.
Please forgive me for my horrible english !
ciao a presto
Laura
If yes I would to download it soon because otherwise I don't know how to write and publish my posts.
Please forgive me for my horrible english !
ciao a presto
Laura
Open Live Writer does not recognize my passwords and account name. How it is possible? Please can you help me? There are others with the same problem? I've just installed it but I can't register my account blog.
ciao
Laura
ciao
Laura
great news about OLW, or so I thought but I installed it just now and it fails with exactly the same problem as Livewriter - not accessing the blog because it fails to recognise a perfectly good password. I can send you a copy of the install log if you tell me where
This would be great news but download of the OLW package and installation fails thus:
The user name or password is incorrect.
Please try again.
At the Google end I am using 2 step verficiation.
So I tried my regular password and when that failed I created an app password under name OLW using the url https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords?pli=1
I took that password with my full user name @gmail.com in the User Name field entered the long gobbly-gook password that Google had created.
NO, it does not work. Assistance please. I would really like to go back to Live Writer which was an excellent package last time I used it.
If I need to post this plea for help elsewhere please tell me.
Thanks marcus b.
The user name or password is incorrect.
Please try again.
At the Google end I am using 2 step verficiation.
So I tried my regular password and when that failed I created an app password under name OLW using the url https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords?pli=1
I took that password with my full user name @gmail.com in the User Name field entered the long gobbly-gook password that Google had created.
NO, it does not work. Assistance please. I would really like to go back to Live Writer which was an excellent package last time I used it.
If I need to post this plea for help elsewhere please tell me.
Thanks marcus b.
Hi,
found this because today windows live writer experienced the same access issue to blogger platform. That issue was fixed months ago but now is here again.
Attempting to authenticate to blogger form WLW it gives a notfound:notfound error.
Your Open Writer has the same issue.
You've written:
OAuth 2 and Open Live Writer will be updated to support OAuth 2. Windows Live Writer will never support this new OAuth 2 authentication system, so if you use Blogger, you'll need to use Open Live Writer.
Not true. Your software does not work with blogger as WLS ...
Fix?
found this because today windows live writer experienced the same access issue to blogger platform. That issue was fixed months ago but now is here again.
Attempting to authenticate to blogger form WLW it gives a notfound:notfound error.
Your Open Writer has the same issue.
You've written:
OAuth 2 and Open Live Writer will be updated to support OAuth 2. Windows Live Writer will never support this new OAuth 2 authentication system, so if you use Blogger, you'll need to use Open Live Writer.
Not true. Your software does not work with blogger as WLS ...
Fix?
I hope it is going to work with Windows 7 as I'm reluctant at the moment to upgrade to Windows 10.
Somewhere along the line there was a major miscommunication or a DGaS attitude between Google and the Open Live Writer team. No, we can't use Windows Live Writer alongside Open Live Writer while OLW gets fixed.
But I'm learning that creating directly on Blogspot is not all that bad.
But I'm learning that creating directly on Blogspot is not all that bad.
धन्यवाद. परंतु यह अभी भी ब्लॉगर पर कार्य नहीं कर रहा है - वही ऑथेंटिकेशन समस्या. कृपया इसे जल्द ही सुलझाएं, और हिंदी में वर्तनी जांच की सुविधा भी दें.
Sounds like a great idea, but it just isn't working. It is too bad that some software developer doesn't come up with a solution, goodness knows we would all buy the program:)
This is great! As a user of LiveWriter, it's good to know it's going to be actively developed again. I am going to try to contribute to the project!
In the mean time, do you have any idea how long it will be before the plugins are up and working? Specifically, I need to be able to insert code blocks.
In the mean time, do you have any idea how long it will be before the plugins are up and working? Specifically, I need to be able to insert code blocks.
I don't think I've ever had this much blogging stress! Help! I was sooo excited when I saw you all came out with a new development with Live Writer, BUT why in the world would you not make sure it's working correctly before cutting out the original Live Writer?? I don't mean to whine, but sleep has been lost, nerves have been on edge (to say the least)!! It took me awhile to realize the hated pop up box with the "Not Found" error is NOT caused by a corrupt system file, or a proxy issue, or even blaming my poor son for messing with my Google account HTML. (something he's learning in school) I went through hours and hours worth of system file checks, antivirus scans, and reboots upon reboots before I happened upon this site and realized there isn't anything wrong with my pc afterall! I realize open live writer is not developed directly by Microsoft, but seriously folks, can't you work together somehow and come up with a solution for all your Live writer fans? We love the program and don't want to use something else! The only good thing I can think of regarding all this chaos is my pc is running super smooth and fast with all the scans that were performed this weekend! It's ready to publish some blogposts (with WLW, hopefully!)
I love WLW and use it for blogging.
WLW not work with blogger, it gives error message "notfound:notfound error"
Then I try OLW. Its not working with blogger too :(
*Sorry my bad english :D
WLW not work with blogger, it gives error message "notfound:notfound error"
Then I try OLW. Its not working with blogger too :(
*Sorry my bad english :D
Having issues with Open Live Writer also as it says it can't connect from the remote server. Help!!?! Thanks!
I think it's safe to say that Google f'd up by taking off the authentication of not only WLW but every desktop software and think that OLW would already have the new authentication up, but alas that has not either and now thousands of us who use Blogger are, well, pissed. I wonder, to the devs here, is inputting OAuth 2.0 that much of a hassle? Wouldn't it be better to ask some people (here, Twitter, github, etc.) that know coding and such to help you fix this?
Well, this is great news, well done:)
But I'm not quite so happy about the links with Blogger: I found it very limited with a lousy (incommunicado) help service and I switched to WordPress. These days I often find that I can't even comment on Blogger blogs which must be very discouraging for its bloggers. (If they're on Facebook or Goodreads, that's where I have to comment on what they've written, not on their blogs.)
So I hope you will eventually play in the WordPress sandpit too:)
But I'm not quite so happy about the links with Blogger: I found it very limited with a lousy (incommunicado) help service and I switched to WordPress. These days I often find that I can't even comment on Blogger blogs which must be very discouraging for its bloggers. (If they're on Facebook or Goodreads, that's where I have to comment on what they've written, not on their blogs.)
So I hope you will eventually play in the WordPress sandpit too:)
Oh, thanks so much for doing this. My WLW has started to throw blogger errors about not being found, possibly due to that authentication protocol you talk about, and my search for the answer led me here. Looking forward to seeing what you put together :)
All you guys saying "it doesn't work": it's open source, go fix it! That's what you wanted, open source, right? Sheesh ;-)
I wish your team would of kept WLW going in the mean time so we can still post through it to our blogs then decided whether to switch to OLW .
Congratulations on the open-source release, and I’m very much obliged to you lot! Great news!
This is great news! Congratulations. Looking forward to many new features.
Right now, am eagerly waiting for the Blogger authentication feature to be completed. Thanks!
Right now, am eagerly waiting for the Blogger authentication feature to be completed. Thanks!
My best wishes are with Engineers who will take the legacy of WLW to the next level by building more advanced features and support for 3rd-party plugin support for both Wordpress and Blogger blogs.
Currently there is a serious connection problem between Open Live Writer and Blogger.com due to Google's OAuth2 authentication system. I hope volunteers on this project will give priority to this issue asap because people can barely post on blogger.com via both WLW and OLW . Thumbs up everyone! =)
Currently there is a serious connection problem between Open Live Writer and Blogger.com due to Google's OAuth2 authentication system. I hope volunteers on this project will give priority to this issue asap because people can barely post on blogger.com via both WLW and OLW . Thumbs up everyone! =)
I have same problem, but i think its all.. "The user name or password is incorrect. Please try again." I hope it will done, Thanks
Hi guys! Are there any plans to fix Oauth 2. for Blogger? Please advise.
Windows Live Writer
Error:
NotFound: Not Found
Windows Live Writer
Error:
NotFound: Not Found
Hey everyone,
They mentioned that Blogger was going to switch to OAuth2. Open Live Writer is going to add this, it was a date slip that Google already had plans in place to turn off the old authentication. They waited this long so that Open Live Writer could be released. Just the code was not ready when the date came.
No one's direct fault but they will get back up and running soon. If you are using the old live writer, you are officially dead as far as Blogger goes.
I believe Scott mentioned this on Twitter for those interested.
They mentioned that Blogger was going to switch to OAuth2. Open Live Writer is going to add this, it was a date slip that Google already had plans in place to turn off the old authentication. They waited this long so that Open Live Writer could be released. Just the code was not ready when the date came.
No one's direct fault but they will get back up and running soon. If you are using the old live writer, you are officially dead as far as Blogger goes.
I believe Scott mentioned this on Twitter for those interested.
I've just downloaded Open Live Writer and it thinks I don't know my Blogger password. I KNOW I've entered it correctly but no go. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Thanks!
OLW just implemented Google Blogger authentication FINALLY! It is working now!!
Now the next thing OLW needs to do is add categories before I can fully post again!
Now the next thing OLW needs to do is add categories before I can fully post again!
I still can't log in. I know my username and password are correct--I verified it with Blogger and I keep getting told my username or password are incorrect. I miss LW so much and really want to use OLW--what can the problem be?
IT Works Mikey ! Awesome Sauce.....many thanks.....
you saved the day......super stars
you saved the day......super stars
We just pushed a new version of Open Live Writer that supports Google Blogger! You can download it at http://www.openlivewriter.org. When setting up your new blog account, make sure to choose the ‘Google Blogger’ option on the first page. Don’t choose ‘Other’ like you did in Windows Live Writer.
Known issues:
Known issues:
- You need to remove your old Google Blogger accounts from Open Live Writer first. After removing them, click the 'Add blog account...' button in Open Live Writer to set up your Google Blogger accounts. When setting up your new blog account, make sure to choose the ‘Google Blogger’ option on the first page. Don’t choose ‘Other’.
- Scheduling a published post may be a few hours off.
- Categories are no longer supported in the latest Blogger API v3.
- Support for authors, tags and comment policies is not enabled yet.
- Attempting to login to Google Blogger with 0 blogs will show an error message. Please create a blog on http://www.blogger.com first before using Open Live Writer.
- After logging into Google Blogger in your browser, you may need to manually close the webpage and switch back to Open Live Writer.
uh oh...test post worked ..but now a full post getting 403 error
Did a test post with images and it worked in Windows 7. Thanks heaps for your dedication. Hopeful that adding labels will be available soon.
Thank you very very much !! Now I have my blog in Open live Writer!!!
I'm so happy!!!
Laura
I'm so happy!!!
Laura
Come si fa ad impostare le etichette di Blogger?
(vedi l'immagina http://i.imgur.com/N7XuZ7J.jpg)
Grazie
(vedi l'immagina http://i.imgur.com/N7XuZ7J.jpg)
Grazie
Amazing, it works it works!! Thanks so much guys!! I was in the middle of reformatting all my older blog posts last week when WLW went down--you guys saved the day!
For people using Blogger (like me), it's simple to add categories to your posts--just don't do it thru Blogger's default editor, you'll lose OLW's special formatting when you open the post.
Go to Design, select Posts--check off the post you want to add categories to, then click on the "luggage tag" icon at the top of the screen, it will allow you to add your categories from there.
For people using Blogger (like me), it's simple to add categories to your posts--just don't do it thru Blogger's default editor, you'll lose OLW's special formatting when you open the post.
Go to Design, select Posts--check off the post you want to add categories to, then click on the "luggage tag" icon at the top of the screen, it will allow you to add your categories from there.
It does not work with Blogger platform nevertheless it claims to do it. Attempting to authenticate to a Blogger site the "user name or password are wrong" error is given.
The same issue of original WLW that is linked to some kind of not compatible API set of Google!
The same issue of original WLW that is linked to some kind of not compatible API set of Google!
Blogger issue solved.
You MUST remove the WLW from your system.
Once removed configuration of Blogger account and blog themes is a joke.
You MUST remove the WLW from your system.
Once removed configuration of Blogger account and blog themes is a joke.
Yay! My tests are working with Blogger!! The latest build fixed my login issues. Now to test it with a real post.
Doug, I don't see a "Design" button in Blogger or OLW. Where is it, please?
Doug, I don't see a "Design" button in Blogger or OLW. Where is it, please?
I don't have a luggage tag but I did figure out how to add tags without opening the post. For me, there's an icon that looks like a pencil at the top of my my All Posts page. I click on the box beside the post I want to tag, click on the pencil, and a list of tags drops down. I can select what I want for that post without opening it. Yee haw!!
Thanks for helping me get there, Doug!
Thanks for helping me get there, Doug!
Again errors with Blogger platform, nevertheless OLW claims to work it.
Fixed the installation issue removing WLW I could create a new post...
...but publishing it I receive a generic 403 error...
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
This error is the worst http error to diagnose for it's a generic one.
What's about tagging? The WLW has a tagger line easy to compose, OLW asks for tag provider...can't understand.
Again: what's about the image composer that create albums in OneDrive?
Fixed the installation issue removing WLW I could create a new post...
...but publishing it I receive a generic 403 error...
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
This error is the worst http error to diagnose for it's a generic one.
What's about tagging? The WLW has a tagger line easy to compose, OLW asks for tag provider...can't understand.
Again: what's about the image composer that create albums in OneDrive?
Giacomo, this fixed that error for me:
http://motociclismoinappennino.blogspot.it/
This workaround for tags works for me until they get them added to OLW:
There's an icon that looks like a pencil at the top of my my All Posts page. I click on the box beside the post I want to tag, click on the pencil, and a list of tags drops down. I can select what I want for that post without opening it in Blogger.
Hope it helps you! Can't help you with your OneDrive issue.
http://motociclismoinappennino.blogspot.it/
This workaround for tags works for me until they get them added to OLW:
There's an icon that looks like a pencil at the top of my my All Posts page. I click on the box beside the post I want to tag, click on the pencil, and a list of tags drops down. I can select what I want for that post without opening it in Blogger.
Hope it helps you! Can't help you with your OneDrive issue.
I was able to post successfully yesterday but now I am getting a remote server error 403: forbidden. Is anyone else experiencing this? Anything I can do on my end to fix it???
Courtney, this worked for me earlier:
http://www.madrasnow.com/2015/12/solved-open-live-writer-login-issue.html
I had to drill down one more layer--it wouldn't let me add my password on that screen.
Here's what I did: Options > Accounts > My Blog > Edit > Update Account Information and this is where I entered my password and told it to remember. My post got scheduled and looks good in Preview. Also my password is still there. I hope this helps!
http://www.madrasnow.com/2015/12/solved-open-live-writer-login-issue.html
I had to drill down one more layer--it wouldn't let me add my password on that screen.
Here's what I did: Options > Accounts > My Blog > Edit > Update Account Information and this is where I entered my password and told it to remember. My post got scheduled and looks good in Preview. Also my password is still there. I hope this helps!
Giacomo, sorry, wrong link to the fix: here is is: http://www.madrasnow.com/2015/12/solved-open-live-writer-login-issue.html
Barbara, sorry about that--just saw your followups about adding the labels. When I said 'Design', that's in the banner at the top of most Blogger blogs, that's how I get to my list of posts. :)
Anyway I noticed earlier that when I ran into an Error window when trying to open an older draft, all I did was shut down OLW & re-open. It worked fine for me every time. :)
Anyway I noticed earlier that when I ran into an Error window when trying to open an older draft, all I did was shut down OLW & re-open. It worked fine for me every time. :)
Barbara, yes! Thank you thank you thank you. Worked great. I am back in business.
THANKS! NOW it is working with Blogger.
Please add FIND > REPLACE feature ASAP.
Please add FIND > REPLACE feature ASAP.
Great!, i can connect to my blogger Now, thanks one million times
UPDATE FOR BLOGGER USERS
Open Live Writer OAuth2 issue has been fixed just yesterday thanks to OLW volunteers at github. You can now download its latest copy from following the link below.
Open Live Writer: Fix Blogger Login Errors & Posting Issues
I have also shared the fix for 403 forbidden error that @Giacomo complained about.
Another issue is that OLW does not support Category Listing for Blogger blogs. For this I have shared a simple workaround to help you easily add and create labels for your blog posts within OLW.
I just hope this helps most of you who were facing Login errors. =)
Open Live Writer OAuth2 issue has been fixed just yesterday thanks to OLW volunteers at github. You can now download its latest copy from following the link below.
Open Live Writer: Fix Blogger Login Errors & Posting Issues
I have also shared the fix for 403 forbidden error that @Giacomo complained about.
Another issue is that OLW does not support Category Listing for Blogger blogs. For this I have shared a simple workaround to help you easily add and create labels for your blog posts within OLW.
I just hope this helps most of you who were facing Login errors. =)
Courtney, yay!! So glad to help!!!
Doug, no problem, I found it and thank you for giving me the nudge!
Just an FYI, I have a post scheduled for Sunday morning at 2am. When I checked it in Preview, I saw it was scheduled for 7am. I rescheduled for 9pm on Saturday (5 hours earlier than I want it to post) and it's now showing it's scheduled for 2am.
A friend wanted to post "now" so I suggested she schedule her post 5 hours AGO and that worked to post NOW. That's one way around the delay in posting. Hope that made sense ;-)
Doug, no problem, I found it and thank you for giving me the nudge!
Just an FYI, I have a post scheduled for Sunday morning at 2am. When I checked it in Preview, I saw it was scheduled for 7am. I rescheduled for 9pm on Saturday (5 hours earlier than I want it to post) and it's now showing it's scheduled for 2am.
A friend wanted to post "now" so I suggested she schedule her post 5 hours AGO and that worked to post NOW. That's one way around the delay in posting. Hope that made sense ;-)
I published a comment earlier that was filled with distress and a little whiney, so now I will change the tune, thanks to Open Live Writer! I just finished publishing a post from Open Live Writer to Blogger and it works perfectly!! Thank you so much for all the work someone put into this to make it work. You guys are great!
The 2012 Windows Live Writer does not work any more with blogger or with windows 7 so I have no choice but to move up to windows 10 which my computer has to be modified for it and I have to down load OLW to be able to continue to use Live Writer for my blogs . A bit of a pain in the butt, Just saying .
Dear all
what is the form of adding the login information for blogger
username is ....@gmail.com or what ?
what is the form of adding the login information for blogger
username is ....@gmail.com or what ?
Nevermind Guys
downloaded the new version
please update the page here to show that at the start instead of comments
downloaded the new version
please update the page here to show that at the start instead of comments
Regarding adding labels in OLW, I have created a spread sheet and copied my labels titles into it, so that I can be sure of the correct spelling of each label.
Mohammad I used the same instructions last night when I got a 403 error and it worked great. Tonight when I went to post again, I got the 403 again. I went through your instructions again and found that I had followed them all correctly including "remember my password" which was checked from last night. Still I got the 403 error tonight. So it is now "setting up my account" again. After it set my account up again, tonight's blog posted. It's obviously not remembering my password in spite of my telling it to. Any fix for this or am I going to have to do this every time I try to post??
Really happy to have Live Writer back!
blog is www.directionofourdreams.blogspot.com
Thanks Sherry
Really happy to have Live Writer back!
blog is www.directionofourdreams.blogspot.com
Thanks Sherry
@Anne
Clever there! However as far Case sensitive blogger labels are concerned, OLW is smart enough to understand both uppercase and lowercase letters and match only the words to the labels in your blog. I have mentioned this in my blog post.
@Sherry
Did you downloaded the Nightly or Release copy? I have shared the Nightly download copy in my blog post and so far I am not facing any such problems. I rechecked it several times to ensure that I am not doing something extra ordinary but it just seems to work fine.
The label option is present inside the Nightly version. Extra benefit!
Clever there! However as far Case sensitive blogger labels are concerned, OLW is smart enough to understand both uppercase and lowercase letters and match only the words to the labels in your blog. I have mentioned this in my blog post.
@Sherry
Did you downloaded the Nightly or Release copy? I have shared the Nightly download copy in my blog post and so far I am not facing any such problems. I rechecked it several times to ensure that I am not doing something extra ordinary but it just seems to work fine.
The label option is present inside the Nightly version. Extra benefit!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was getting desperate not being able to sign in with WLW. Getting OLW and being able to publish again almost brought tears to my eyes, so happy! :)
So I definitely have the remember password box checked but I am still getting the 403 error. However, if I delete my password and type it in again, the blog setup runs and I can then post normally. Not sure what's going on, and I don't like the extra step every time I want to post, but I can deal with it for now. Just so glad time is being devoted to this program. I love Blogger and I love Live Writer!
@Courtney @Barbara Anders
Just check whether 'Automatically update account information' checkbox is ticked (checked).
File >> Options >> Accounts >> you see 2 check boxes below the 'Accounts Window'.
In my setup, I'd ticked/checked the 1st box (as above). For me, it is working as it should - except still have no 'categories' feature.
Cheers.
Just check whether 'Automatically update account information' checkbox is ticked (checked).
File >> Options >> Accounts >> you see 2 check boxes below the 'Accounts Window'.
In my setup, I'd ticked/checked the 1st box (as above). For me, it is working as it should - except still have no 'categories' feature.
Cheers.
@madrasnow
Thanks for that. I just checked and mine is ticked. I downloaded last night's update earlier today so maybe that fixed it. I'll be doing a blog post later so I'll test it out.
For the category box, go here: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html
And download the "nightly" update. I got the category box added when I did that. Keep in mind it doesn't save them like WLW did yet--hopefully that's on the list :)
Thanks for that. I just checked and mine is ticked. I downloaded last night's update earlier today so maybe that fixed it. I'll be doing a blog post later so I'll test it out.
For the category box, go here: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html
And download the "nightly" update. I got the category box added when I did that. Keep in mind it doesn't save them like WLW did yet--hopefully that's on the list :)
Many thanks for building this, and then helping me through the installation, even through the restrictive medium of twitter. It is hardly adequate recompense, but here a few posts about computers and intelligence.
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/life-is-iq-test-and-so-are-video-games.html
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-oscars-for-intelligence.html
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/your-google-iq.html
Thanks
James
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/life-is-iq-test-and-so-are-video-games.html
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-oscars-for-intelligence.html
http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/your-google-iq.html
Thanks
James
Does anyone have a link to the latest nightly release? I am still getting a 403 error when I try to publish without re-entering my password.
Here you go, Courtney!
http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html
I don't think that issue has been resolved yet--unless last night's update did it. I updated yesterday morning and I'm still having to re-enter.
http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html
I don't think that issue has been resolved yet--unless last night's update did it. I updated yesterday morning and I'm still having to re-enter.
Scott, thanks for getting this going. I was getting ready to shift all my Blogger blogs over to Word Press because Windows Live Writer does not work with Blogger any longer. Now I don't have to. I am already posting using Open Live Writer. Thank you, and well done!
Not sure where to report this, but a feature that was working in OLW previously no longer functions (for Blogger).
If you try to access a listing of more than 50 posts (to edit an older one) in the Open window (like 100), you get this error:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: values
at System.String.Join(String separator, IEnumerable`1 values)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.ConvertToBlogPost(Post post)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.<>c.<GetRecentPosts>b__38_0(Post p)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectListIterator`2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at
If you try to access a listing of more than 50 posts (to edit an older one) in the Open window (like 100), you get this error:
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: values
at System.String.Join(String separator, IEnumerable`1 values)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.ConvertToBlogPost(Post post)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.<>c.<GetRecentPosts>b__38_0(Post p)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.WhereSelectListIterator`2.MoveNext()
at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)
at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source)
at
Thanks Barbara! Do I need to upload a new nightly every now and then or will the program automatically update itself?
This is fantastic! I use blogger and I have noticed that the account connection to blogger seems to fail and I have to reestablish the account credentials each time / day I go to write a blog. Sure this will get worked out so very happy to see Live Writer continue on!
Scratch my last comment, read the notes just above my comment and I added my passwords so all good now. Thanks again for this great work.
Courtney, you're welcome! I don't think it's automatically updated yet so I'm doing exactly that--uploading every few days.
Wonderful idea, but sadly it won't work with the WordPress blog on my domain.
When I put my web address and login info's all I get is "400 bad request".
When I put my web address and login info's all I get is "400 bad request".
I was able to solve the problem renamig xmlrpc.php but now the progam crashes when starts, same behavior of Windows Live Writer.
I'm running a fresh and legit Windows 10 installation (64 bit).
I'm running a fresh and legit Windows 10 installation (64 bit).
Hi,
After years of glitch free service WLW stopped working. It seems that WLW doesn't like 2016 on Windows 10. I have tried everything even reinstalling and still refuses to work Hoping to make it alive I installed OLW and same thing.
The error is the well know "WLW has encountered a user-defined breakpoint." Breakpoint? Where? How? When?
The funny thing is that ignoring the popup error window WLW seems to be working. However OLW simply popups an error window and setup freezes.
Happy New Year
After years of glitch free service WLW stopped working. It seems that WLW doesn't like 2016 on Windows 10. I have tried everything even reinstalling and still refuses to work Hoping to make it alive I installed OLW and same thing.
The error is the well know "WLW has encountered a user-defined breakpoint." Breakpoint? Where? How? When?
The funny thing is that ignoring the popup error window WLW seems to be working. However OLW simply popups an error window and setup freezes.
Happy New Year
I have the legit windows 10 and OLW and it all seems to work ok after lots of frigging about thank god hubs is a techy person cause I would not of been able to do it all by myself , way to much confusion with it all . I am just not impressed with the fact that OLW still does not have spell check , I really do not like having to proof read all my blog posts takes to much time . When will OLW have spell check ? I just wish you all would make sure these programs work a lot better before you decide to launch them .
Help! I can't upload videos on my blog using Open Live Writer. Keeps on saying "There was an error getting the list of videos". I'm saving the video on my YouTube account.
Then, in Open Live Writer, I'm posting the video by signing in to YouTube account. Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks!
Then, in Open Live Writer, I'm posting the video by signing in to YouTube account. Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks!
Hi guys! I was totally excited yesterday when I found this. I like many have had the same issues with Windows Liver Writer and have been using it for so many years. My blog in hosted on Blogger and having found Open Live Writer is just awesome. Thank you all!
Yesterday I posted a test on my blog to see if everything was working and it went all smoothly. However today I want to actually post my article and have been having issues.
This is the error message I am getting and hope you can help!
The service blogger has thrown an exception: Google.GoogleApiException: Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError
Not Found [404]
Errors [
Message[Not Found] Location[ - ] Reason[notFound] Domain[global]
]
at Google.Apis.Requests.ClientServiceRequest`1.Execute()
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.EditPost(String blogId, BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish, String& etag, XmlDocument& remotePost)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Blog.EditPost(BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish)
at OpenLiveWriter.PostEditor.UpdateWeblogAsyncOperation.DoWork()
at OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
Yesterday I posted a test on my blog to see if everything was working and it went all smoothly. However today I want to actually post my article and have been having issues.
This is the error message I am getting and hope you can help!
The service blogger has thrown an exception: Google.GoogleApiException: Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError
Not Found [404]
Errors [
Message[Not Found] Location[ - ] Reason[notFound] Domain[global]
]
at Google.Apis.Requests.ClientServiceRequest`1.Execute()
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.EditPost(String blogId, BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish, String& etag, XmlDocument& remotePost)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Blog.EditPost(BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish)
at OpenLiveWriter.PostEditor.UpdateWeblogAsyncOperation.DoWork()
at OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
Oh sorry! I have followed the instructions on this site: http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/12/fixing-open-live-writer-errors.html
But I am still not having any luck!
Meeta
But I am still not having any luck!
Meeta
Thanks very much for this, Scott and all working on Open Live Writer!
I've got Open Live Writer to point to my old Windows Live Writer folders (which I had on an external hard drive), and it's all working so I can view my old drafts, recent posts etc as they were in Windows Live Writer.
In case it helps anyone, I've blogged the step by step process at http://www.consumingexperience.com/2016/01/open-live-writer-change-blog-posts.html, but it would be great if a future release of OLW could offer an easy way for users to change the default location of their blog posts on their systems.
I've got Open Live Writer to point to my old Windows Live Writer folders (which I had on an external hard drive), and it's all working so I can view my old drafts, recent posts etc as they were in Windows Live Writer.
In case it helps anyone, I've blogged the step by step process at http://www.consumingexperience.com/2016/01/open-live-writer-change-blog-posts.html, but it would be great if a future release of OLW could offer an easy way for users to change the default location of their blog posts on their systems.
I'm having the same problem as Meeta, and did the same fix, which didn't work! Help!!
Scott, Ever since the advent of OLW, which I LOVE, my blog posts don't show up on blog rolls for 4 or 5 hours. Last night I posted at 9:44 EST and it is still no on the blog rolls at 7:10AM this morning. I assume this is a google problem SIGH. Most of my readers find me on their blog rolls. Is there anything I can do about this? A work around to take my OLW post and put it directly into stupid Blogger so they will publish it on the blog rolls immediately which is what happened on those few agonizing days before OLW was up and running?
Also is there a better forum for these questions than here?
Also is there a better forum for these questions than here?
I tried to insert the url of my pictures from flikr to complete my articles, but OLW doesn't upload them.
I'm desperate.
can you help me to solve this problem?
thank you in advance
Laura Adani
I'm desperate.
can you help me to solve this problem?
thank you in advance
Laura Adani
Sherry, I'm on EST and if I want to schedule a post I have to subtract 5 hours from the OLW setting. For example, if I want a post to go live at midnight on the 10th, I have to schedule it for 7pm on the 9th. I go to preview on Blogger and it's set for the correct time. Easy enough workaround until they get it fixed.
Barbara
Barbara
Lauri, until it's fixed, I'm probably missing something re: your issue, but can't you move your photos to your computer and upload from there? I have no problem adding photos from my computer.
Barbara
Barbara
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I tried downloading the nightly release last night and got all kinds of errors when installing. I just read this on the Blogger forum:
" Scott Hanselman said:
Hey folks, I'm on the Open Live Writer team. Please DO NOT get the nightly that Paulo posted above, we've got it in the mainline release that you can get at http://openlivewriter.org now. Regular folks (not testers or programmers) should be using the Release of Open Live Writer."
Barbara
" Scott Hanselman said:
Hey folks, I'm on the Open Live Writer team. Please DO NOT get the nightly that Paulo posted above, we've got it in the mainline release that you can get at http://openlivewriter.org now. Regular folks (not testers or programmers) should be using the Release of Open Live Writer."
Barbara
Barbara I uplowed a lot of photos for each a post and using flikr url it was a very useful tool to have a post light. I don't know if I can explain what I mean, at the same time people who cliked on my pictures waere ridirected to my account in Flikr very useful for my client (I'm a food photographer) where they can view my portfolio.
thank you for your ansxer Barabara
:-)
I wonder only if there would be a possibility to have this tool in Olw
ciao
Laura
thank you for your ansxer Barabara
:-)
I wonder only if there would be a possibility to have this tool in Olw
ciao
Laura
Since December my posts have been taking 8 hours to show up on Blog lists and search engines. I have been posting directly from OLW and pinging the blog in feedburner repeatedly. Last night I didn't ping it, and it hasn't shown up after 9 hours on either lists or search. Barbara has suggested I schedule it for 5 hours before I want it to post. I assume that means if I write it in OLW I must post it as a draft to blogger rather than post directly from OLW. That also means that if it is posted at 9:30pm and I want it to come out at midnight then I must set the time for 4:30pm on the day I posted it? If I bring it back in blogger to draft now, can I schedule it for 4 hours previous and it will come out in an hour??
Does anyone have any idea when this will be fixed? Is it something we need to try to complain to blogger about?
Thanks for any and all help. Lots of my followers use their blog lists and won't see my posts if they aren't there.
Does anyone have any idea when this will be fixed? Is it something we need to try to complain to blogger about?
Thanks for any and all help. Lots of my followers use their blog lists and won't see my posts if they aren't there.
Does anyone know how to change your time zone setting? I've looked in my account and I don't see how.
Thanks!
Barbara
Thanks!
Barbara
Sherry, no you go ahead and publish it. For example, say my post is to go live at midnight on Sunday. I will schedule in OLW at 7pm on Saturday and publish. If I go look at my post in Blogger in PREVIEW mode, not edit, my date header will have Sunday's date and my post footer will show midnight as the time. I hope that made sense ;-)
Barbara
Barbara
Sherry, to clarify: The time in OLW seems to be set to GMT. Since I'm in EST, I do 5 hours ahead. You'll have to adjust for your time zone. Since you say it takes 8 hours to show up I'm assuming you're in Pacific time? If that assumption is correct, you'd have to schedule your posts for 4pm PST to post at midnight. I think I'm doing the math right ;-) As far as your blog lists and search engines, I have no advice.
Barbara
Barbara
hello sir plz help
I want to setup OLW for google blogger but i have a problem with an installing OLW on win 7 64 bit pc and my .net frame work version is 4.5.2
The installation process begins usually but in the middle after hitting on next button it allways displays this message
open live writer dialog
sign in to google blogger to continue...
after signing in and allowing OLW to access my google account some times my browser displays a message
OAuth 2.0 Authentication Token Received
Received verification code. You may now close this window.
and some time comes with the reload button. Title bar shows this url http://localhost:49665/authorize/?code=4/IiR6VNaITBgB6AQuDGfgoN-OvVNiQWHuUSvqamKpc9o#
but during this process microsoft .net frame work pops out with detail and continue button. the detail button shows this message
Microsoft .NET Framework
Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.
If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to
continue.
An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its
access permissions 216.58.196.109:443.
Details Continue
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An attempt was made to acc
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Soc
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
continue button closes the microsoft .net frame work window. but nothing happends with OLW
and also want to say sorry for my poor english
I want to setup OLW for google blogger but i have a problem with an installing OLW on win 7 64 bit pc and my .net frame work version is 4.5.2
The installation process begins usually but in the middle after hitting on next button it allways displays this message
open live writer dialog
sign in to google blogger to continue...
after signing in and allowing OLW to access my google account some times my browser displays a message
OAuth 2.0 Authentication Token Received
Received verification code. You may now close this window.
and some time comes with the reload button. Title bar shows this url http://localhost:49665/authorize/?code=4/IiR6VNaITBgB6AQuDGfgoN-OvVNiQWHuUSvqamKpc9o#
but during this process microsoft .net frame work pops out with detail and continue button. the detail button shows this message
Microsoft .NET Framework
Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application.
If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to
continue.
An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its
access permissions 216.58.196.109:443.
Details Continue
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An attempt was made to acc
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Soc
************** Loaded Assemblies **************
continue button closes the microsoft .net frame work window. but nothing happends with OLW
and also want to say sorry for my poor english
Categories are now showing up in a drop down window in OLW. Just noticed this evening when I was completing a post and about to manually enter them. Thanks team.
You are stars, all of you! All that work to make our lives so much easier ;-)
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hi,
Early this year on Saturday, January 02, 2016 4:56:27 PM UTC (see above) I posted my problem with the "WLW has encountered a user-defined breakpoint." error.
Well, after ignoring the pop up error for a couple of weeks or so, then WLW began working just fine as it worked for years on Windows 7. I don´t know what changed in my computer that make it work, but it is still working just fine.
Early this year on Saturday, January 02, 2016 4:56:27 PM UTC (see above) I posted my problem with the "WLW has encountered a user-defined breakpoint." error.
Well, after ignoring the pop up error for a couple of weeks or so, then WLW began working just fine as it worked for years on Windows 7. I don´t know what changed in my computer that make it work, but it is still working just fine.
Having trouble with categories now when uploading to Blogger. It accepts some categories then puts up the error message on others for no rhyme or reason. I thought it may have had something to do with adding new labels, but some of them go through OK, and old labels are rejected.
Error log:
The service blogger has thrown an exception: Google.GoogleApiException: Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError
We're sorry, but the value for field labels was not valid. [400]
Errors [
Message[We're sorry, but the value for field labels was not valid.] Location[ - ] Reason[invalid] Domain[global]
]
at Google.Apis.Requests.ClientServiceRequest`1.Execute()
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.NewPost(String blogId, BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish, String& etag, XmlDocument& remotePost)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Blog.NewPost(BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish)
at OpenLiveWriter.PostEditor.UpdateWeblogAsyncOperation.DoWork()
at OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
Error log:
The service blogger has thrown an exception: Google.GoogleApiException: Google.Apis.Requests.RequestError
We're sorry, but the value for field labels was not valid. [400]
Errors [
Message[We're sorry, but the value for field labels was not valid.] Location[ - ] Reason[invalid] Domain[global]
]
at Google.Apis.Requests.ClientServiceRequest`1.Execute()
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Clients.GoogleBloggerv3Client.NewPost(String blogId, BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish, String& etag, XmlDocument& remotePost)
at OpenLiveWriter.BlogClient.Blog.NewPost(BlogPost post, INewCategoryContext newCategoryContext, Boolean publish)
at OpenLiveWriter.PostEditor.UpdateWeblogAsyncOperation.DoWork()
at OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices.AsyncOperation.InternalStart()
Helpful post . I learned a lot from the information - Does anyone know where my assistant could possibly get ahold of a sample KY CHFS Form MAP-811 Individual example to work with ?
How can we Edit older articles, the recent post list has only 10 items.
I was using Microsoft live writter since 2002 and it did a good job, but suddently it stopped posting to my Blogger.
As an RVer it is important to have a place to blog with out wifi connection and after a long search I found OWL-Thank you it works just fine.
As an RVer it is important to have a place to blog with out wifi connection and after a long search I found OWL-Thank you it works just fine.
Wow. I am so looking forward to the high DPI display problems to get fixed. This is great!
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It's being a long journey. Finally you guys make this happen.