40+ Plugins for Windows Live Writer
When I was first introduced to Windows live writer by my friend, I was pretty excited to see a brand new Offline blogging software and one of the best of its kind. When i downloaded Windows live writer, I spent a whole day with it and played with all its features. Now that I know each and every feature of it, I am looking for plugins that can enhance it more. I have found some of them and thought to share them with you today. Here are the best ones for you. If you are not familliar with Windows live writer yet, you can read a review of windows live writer or download it.
Lets you insert an article from an RSS feed.
Integrates Windows Snipping Tool into Windows Live Writer
The Gamer Card Writer Plugin inserts a gamer card into your post.
Inserts an ESV bible verse into the post
With this plugin you can easily insert images you have in your Picasa Web Albums into your blog
Useful for anyone running Word Press with the AdSense Deluxe Plug-In.
Removes the culture from an MSDN URL so that the end user’s culture is used in determining what localized content they see.
Show the current playing track to your post on your blog.
This will paste rich content from the clipboard into WLW.
Embed a customized table in your Blog post
This plugin for Windows Live Writer allows you to browse, add and format images from Community Server Galleries to your posts.
Uses SnagIt screen capture tool from Techsmith to provide sophisticated screen captures directly into Live Writer.
Select a Visual Studio 2005 solution file, when selected the solution and the directory will be zipped and included in the blog
Helps users change text direction within the post for non left-to-right languages
Allows you to add a thumbnail and details about a product from Amazon with the link to the product having the Affiliate ID in it
Insert a translation using Google Translator
Insert a verse of the day as supplied from Bible Gateway
Posting your most recent del.icio.us bookmarks to MSN Space blog
This plugin lets you search for an acronym description and insert it the acronym with the description in the blog post.
Allows Tablet PC users to Blog in ink directly from Windows Live Writer
Screen captures a URL for inclusion in your blog.
Inserts events into a blog post. Enter your own events, or search for them on Eventful.com.
Lets you put the embed code into a blog entry for a file or folder from your public SkyDrive account.
List applications from your Silverlight Streaming account with live preview and embed in blog post using iFrame invocation
Insert smileys from Yahoo, Yahoo Hidden, MSN and Custom smileys. You can add as many smileys as you like
Makes it easy to insert the currently playing title to your weblog
Insert one of the many Live Spaces emoticons into your blog.
Gives you an option to select the Quote of the day from two RSS feeds.
Lets you insert a video from MSN SoapBox, Google Video, YouTube, MySpace Video, Yahoo! Video
Insert a geo microformat (latitude and longitude) snippet into a blog post.
Allows you to do an image search using Windows Live Search and choose the image you want to put in your blog entry.
This plugin enables Windows Live Writer to insert XFN (XHTML Friends Network) aware links
The Text Template plugin lets you save commonly used snips of HTML
Allows you to add an embedded album using the new feature from Live Spaces
Easily transfer syntax highlighted source code from Visual Studio to elegant HTML in Windows Live Writer
Add cool Polaroid-style pictures to your blog.
Lets you interactively review the sample code before inserting it into your post
This plugin will enable interaction with the Flickr services.
Quick access to Insert Link to blog post options
Inserts a thumbnail image of a website into the Live Writer window.
Helps you to store and access your personal files from anywhere online.
Add automatic social bookmarking tags in your blog posts
Inserts a Digg This button to your Windows Live Writer posts.
A simple word counter in the selected text
This plugin lets you insert a file into a Live Writer post
Helps you locate books in the Amazon store and now includes a thumbnail image of each book found.
Thanks for linking to my article on Tech In Demand. I should probably rewrite or edit it to upgrade my most recent feelings. Thanks again!
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