Code snippet plugin for Live Writer on Blogger

I started to use windows live writer as my blogging tool. When I'm starting to use it, I had to face one problem which was how I'm going to publish the articles with code snippets. I’m using Blogger as my blog engine. So plugin I'm looking for must work with blogger too. After few search in the Google, I found few plugins to use code snippets with blog articles. One thing I noticed from all of those tools was none of them not updated very recently. In the end, I selected one tool to use with my live writer for blogging. You can check it from the below link.

https://sourcecodeplugin.codeplex.com/

This tool uses SyntaxHighlighter version 3. That was one of the main reason to select this tool. Because most of other tools not updated with SyntaxHighlighter version 3. When you are going to use this plugin for the first time with the live writer it pops up an error message saying “Can't load configuration from 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Windows Live Writer\WindowsLiveWriter.SourceCode.config file”. What you have to do is ignore that error and move forward. And it won't appear in the after the first time. This is something known issue and writer of this plugin discuss this in the discussion section in CodePlex site.

Earlier when I want to put code snippet to the blog post I had to keep the code with SyntaxHighlighter tags. Now I don’t need to worry about that. this new plugin does it for me. Now blogging become easier than previous.

Windows live writer on Blogger

 

After a long time back I tried to use windows live writer as my blogging tool. I used it early days and suddenly I missed it. So after I install windows live writer 2012 (latest version) I tried connect with my blog. My blog engine is a blogger. I entered correct URL, username and password. I checked that with the browser as well to verify details are correct or not. I tried 2 or 3 times but no luck. I search in the Google and I couldn’t find the good solution for this matter. because of that I thought to write about this then this might be helpful to someone else. The below image shows the error message.

After all the attempts, I found the solution. In my Google account, I activated the 2-way verification system to my Google account for unknown applications and devices. When I'm logging through unknown device’s browser I get the security code and I enter it can use the particular Google service.  But with live writer there is no any method to use it that way. Because of that I need to go to below link and add live writer. Then I get generated password by Google. I have to use it for the sign in with live writer and blogger.

https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords

After complete above steps, I logged in successfully with my live writer and the blogger. So here after all blog post will come through the live writer.

Happy blogging. Ohhh yeahh

Windows Live Writer

 Today I thought to write something about the windows live writer. it is  amaze tool for bloggers. it simplify our work and save the time. we can set up multiple blogs in writer and this work with blogger, wordpress and more. you can write your post in live writer and can view the like as in blog post editor. In live writer have rich support of editing option and insert option which is can save draft of your post in blog and local hard drive. The live writer support with many plug-ins. so it will easer the the our work more than else in when we writing post in  the blog. we can see source code in live writer as well as in blog. using live writer you can create beautiful blog post quickly its format text, photos ,videos and maps (such as Bing and Google).you can download Windows Live Writer in this link  and  plug–in in this link.