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Windows Live Writer: Life Made Easy for Blogging

Saliya Ekanayake 9:45 PM , , 9 comments
I've been using Blogger for quite some time and over the years they have improved their Web based blog editor a lot, yet there was some uneasiness always when thinking about editing or adding a post. Anyway, after I got to know about Windows Live Writer I wanted to get it setup with Blogger but it wasn’t successful simply for some reason I couldn't understand “Username or password is incorrect”! I remembered only today that I was using two step verification with Google and that I have to create an application specific password to connect to Blogger. Wish it came to my mind sooner! Anyway, it’s now working fine and if you can read this online that means I made a post successfully with Live Writer.
Few places to note if you are having trouble connecting to Blogger with Live Writer as I did.
  1. Blog URL: Don’t forget to use https instead of http
  2. Username: Remember to add @gmail.com to your user id
  3. Password: As mentioned above, if you are using a two step verification with Google you need to generate application specific password to connect (see http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185833)

9 comments :

  1. Unknown8:00 AM

    This post very helpful. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Pramod Pathak12:21 AM

    Memory is short lived, generated password for Outlook few months back and forgot the steps, when I wanted to connect Windows Live. Very short, sweet and crisp post on the subject.

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  3. Ahmad Budairi8:12 PM

    tanks very much...
    this is nice info and helpfull.

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  4. Laxmikant Bhumkar6:18 AM

    This is undoubtedly; what I search for! Lucky Bhumkar

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  5. Michael Sauers9:23 AM

    Woot! Thanks for this. I was getting the same "incorrect" message and this solved it.

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  6. Westy7:29 AM

    Thanks for this the gmail thing was causing me problems thanks to your posy I solved it:)

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  7. ą¤¦ेą¤µेą¤¶ ą¤…ą¤—्ą¤°ą¤µाą¤²10:31 AM

    Really help me a lot.Just setup outlook account on 5th july with application specific code. and now i am searching why i am unable to setup live writer.

    thanks a lot.

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  8. Adi S8:50 AM

    i really like using wlw...the only missing feature is search description field for blogspot.com,is there any additional plugin for this?

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  9. Saliya Ekanayake9:12 AM

    @Richard Freel: I am not quite sure what you meant by description field. Could you elaborate a bit?

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