- #MARSEDIT WORDPRESS SOFTWARE#
- #MARSEDIT WORDPRESS CODE#
- #MARSEDIT WORDPRESS TRIAL#
- #MARSEDIT WORDPRESS MAC#
#MARSEDIT WORDPRESS TRIAL#
Both applications claim to support both, so I ran trial versions to see which might work for me. That’s OK, of course - everyone’s welcome here.įor those of you who missed the original post, I compared these two programs as tools to help me manage mirrored blogs on WordPress and Livejournal. I’m sure those hits come from people who don’t know me, and just happened to google “Mars Edit versus MacJournal” and found that entry. I’m offering it to Daniel, so maybe a future version of MarsEdit will have support for this sort of thing natively (but you’ll have to pester him about that).One of the most-viewed entries to this blog is MarsEdit versus MacJournal, a months-old entry which continues to show up among my most-viewed entries every week.
#MARSEDIT WORDPRESS CODE#
So, hopefully, expect to see more posts from me in the future.Īnd sorry, this code will likely not be open-sourced. It’s been a great weekend project, and it’s made it much simpler for me to blog again. I’m very pleased with how this has turned out. So, because I had this massively over-engineered system in place, I was able to quickly add support for most of the Wordpress XML-RPC API with structs that look roughly like this:Įnum Wordpress I started off only focusing on the MetaWeblog API, but it turned out to not be quite descriptive enough for my purposes (it doesn’t have a way to describe post tags, for example). I ended up building an entire XML-RPC Server, including custom XMLRPCEncoder and XMLRPCDecoder types so that I can write the actual request and response objects as normal Swift Codable structs. I have created something beautiful and terrifying.ĭetails forthcoming.- Dave DeLong June 14, 2020Īs is typically of my side projects, this one follows my side-project philosophy: I can write in Markdown, I can drag-and-drop images, I can save and edit posts as published or drafts, I can alter tags, edit HTML, and do just about everything I want to do with the content of my site without worrying at all about making sure I get files in the right folder and naming them correctly and manually resizing images…
So, the past 36 hours have been a frenzied coding storm of me writing a Swift package that implements an XMLRPC server to serve up the source files of my website, all so I can write posts in MarsEdit.Īs it happens, it works really well. I’d get all of the features of the MarsEdit authoring experience, but the benefits of a static site that I rather enjoy. This got me thinking… what if I exposed my Jekyll blog via an XML-RPC interface? Then I could add it in MarsEdit and write and edit posts there. These APIs tend to be of the “XML-RPC” variety. But the real power behind it is that it’ll work with any blogging system that uses one of a few standard kinds of APIs. MarsEdit has support for a bunch of standard kinds of blogs, like WordPress and Tumblr, etc. Yesterday I was poking around in the app and I had one of those ideas that seems crazy enough to actually work.
#MARSEDIT WORDPRESS SOFTWARE#
This time around, I had an idea and decided to run with it.įirst, I’m a big fan of indie software and in particular, I’m a long-time user of Daniel Jalkut’s great app MarsEdit. It’s that time of the year again where I’m discontent with my blogging setup and nothing out there seems like a good solution.- Dave DeLong June 13, 2020 I’m willing to do the odd git commit and git push commands to actually publish the content, but I still want things like spell checking, drag-and-drop to embed media, and so on.įor a long time, it seemed like there was never a happy medium, and it’s something that occasionally rears its head and results in a frustrated tweet:
#MARSEDIT WORDPRESS MAC#
What I really want is an authoring experience that gives me native Mac (and ideally, iPad) apps, but that works with my static site files.
When I sit down to write a blog post, I don’t want to think about all the minutiae that goes in to keeping my blog up and running instead, I want to be thinking about the content of the post. On the other hand, the authoring experience on hosted solutions (like Wordpress or Medium) is fantastic, but you lose a lot of the speed of a static site, and the ownership becomes more murky.
I appreciate the speed and flexibility of statically-generated sites, but the authoring experience around them isn’t that great. I’ve been wanting to blog more, but it’s always seemed like such a hassle.
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