![]() So, I'd been creating my WordPress posts in my browser for a few weeks (having just started out) and it's pretty slow and clunky. But most importantly: It costs less than 10 coffees (I average two at my coffee shop, so I spend more in a week on coffee than I have spent on ME in eternity), for crying out loud! Is that really expensive? Admittedly, my coffee is - but then I'm prepared to pay for that as well. You get personal support from the Author, which I find very appealing. Personally, I find the price for ME to be well justifiable. Guess why there aren't better offline WP editors available for less available on the Mac. Shut up, make a better product, and offer it for less. Then comment on the features, but do not say it should be cheaper. Purchase because you DO find the value proposition justifiable. Fair, but please do not comment on the software's features. Don't purchase because the value isn't right for you. I know that in the age of the App Store where the ongoing race to the bottom kills software fast it has become fashionable call software that cost more than $1 'expensive'.īut seriously, you as the customer have three options: To those who think that ME's price is 'too expensive': Please reconsider. Having that (or a template that is close enough) would really be the icing on the cake. Not everyone is able to extract HTML formatting from WP's templates and transfer them to ME. There are some minor quibbles or features that I wish ME would implement to make my experience even more pleasant (chiefly amongst them being able to select between templates for common wp templates like 'twenty-eleven'. A personal preference, for sure, but still. In a direct comparison with on-line editing from within WP I found that I prefer to edit my text in ME, and then upload. I don't know why, but that's simply where I write best. Offline editing is important to me because I compose most of my articles on my *ooooold* laptop, being on the road, between meetings, or (usually) sitting in a quaint, but lovely Coffee Shop without internet access. During sync, articles (and static pages) that I wrote on-line are synced back to ME. Since you can do much of that from within WP itself, the killer feature of ME is being able to create articles off-line and later synch them to your Blog. I like the ability to switch between HTML and Rich Text editing (I am *not* the world's greatest HTML buff), and seeing the results in the preview window updating live is a great help. In the context of your blog, ME allows you to create and update articles as well as stand-alone pages. ![]() I'm only using it for Wordpress (self-hosted) blogs, so I cannot comment on how well it integrates with other blogs. MarsEdit 3 customers who purchased from either the web or the Mac App Store on June 1 or later can upgrade to version 4.0 absolutely free, and MarsEdit 3 customers who purchased before June 1 can still upgrade for 50% off at $24.95.Mars Edit is a capable, yet simple-to-use editor for Wordpress (and other) based blogs. MarsEdit 4 is available on the web and on the Mac App Store for $49.95 after the 14 day free trial (otherwise publishing features are disabled and editing is limited to local content only). MarsEdit 4 also marks the first major new version in seven years, and it’s a free app to try for two weeks before purchasing. If you publish from the Mac and haven’t tried MarsEdit before, version 4.0 is a great place to start if you want to experience offline writing with local copies of your content without the browser involved. Support for macOS standard autosave means never worrying about losing your work. MarsEdit Safari App Extension makes it easy to create new posts based on things you read on the web. Preview fillters for Markdown, MultiMarkdown, and Convert Line Breaks are now implemented natively so they run at lightning speed, converting your writing on the fly. A baseline template is easily created and can be fine-tuned by hand if desired. Preview your posts as you write them, just as they’ll appear when published on the web.
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