Maybe the needed plug-ins for Windows Live Writer have all been written as there has been a big slow down in what has been submitted to be posted to http://plugins.live.com over the last few months. Since the beginning of 2011 there have three plug-ins added plus an update to an existing plug-in. Since there is not RSS on the site you have to go looking for them but if you do you can find some great plug-ins. Here are the ones added/updated in 2011:
- Twitter Update – this plug-in is a little more extensible than the plug-in published from Microsoft and allows for tweeting to three accounts on post of the blog entry.
- Amazon Book Linker – Do you blog about books? Add your Amazon associate id and if people click through from your blog to buy you will get your commission.
- Source Code Formatter – this is an update to a plug-in that has been available for awhile that allows you to added formatted source code to your blog entry.
- GeSHi Server Blocks – This is another source code highlighter that works with many server side plug-ins for GeSHi.
I hope to see many more plug-ins submitted for Windows Live Writer to the plug-in site. There are many things you can do when you are blogging.
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Or, the new gallery sucks that bad; or maybe the submission process sucks or there’s a complete lack of interest in doing plug-ins. Scott Lovegrove seems to be the only person on the web that seems to have an interest in doing plug-ins for Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer could use some more plug-ins… maybe with your audience; maybe you could ask the user base…
WHAT PLUG-INS THEY’D LIKE TO SEE?!
Maybe that list might make it to the Windows Live Writer dev team; since they don’t seem to have a voice on the web since you were disavowed from their guild.
My suggestion; how about a plug-in that returns the sidebar with the plug-in options listed?!
Just a thought.
Until next time,
Larry Henry Jr.
Comment by lehenryjr — May 27, 2011 @ 5:41 PM