Windows Live Writer is one of the best and most popular programs to use for blogging and having the best plugins on it would really be great because this will enhance the user experience and would definitely make posting easier and so much fun. But, with the long list of plugins that Live can offer, which ones should really be on your plugins section and which ones would be considered as nuisance. But, before that, here are some reasons why blogging with Microsoft Live Writer is easy and fun
- It’s easy because you don’t need to log-in again to the site for you to write, all you need is click the live writer and start writing
- You can write even without the internet, save your files on your computer and just publish it on your site whenever there’s internet connection
- If you’re using WordPress, categories and tags could be add here
- You can also put your posts into queue
- Easy to use interface, it looks just like the Word and other Microsoft programs
- You can preview the post on how it will look like on your website without the internet
- HTML could also be viewed here with so much ease
So, there you have it, now let’s start the count of the best and the most useful Windows Live Writer plugins
Word Count
Ok, so maybe some people will say “Live writer can count words”, yes we know that, but this plugin doesn’t just count worlds, it counts characters, characters with spaces and paragraphs, can the Live Writer’s word counter do that?
This might not be very important for all, but it’s nice to know that there’s something plugged in on your Windows Live Writer that can help you know how many letters have you written down already.
Flickr4Writer
For those people who wants to use pictures posted on Flickr already, this plugin would bring joy to your blogging experience. With this, inserting of pictures found on Flickr would be possible and so much easier.
Flickr is a big website already and when it comes to photo resources, this is one website to go to. And making this plugin available for bloggers using Windows Live Writer would bring great experience.
Insert Video
This plugin is a useful tool for blogger that handle a tutorial website that needs lots of videos on how to use things and how things work. With this plugin on your Live Writer inserting Videos anywhere from the whole of the internet would be so much easier.
It’s an easy and fun way of inserting YouTube Videos or other videos you want to insert on your blog post.
Facebook Like Button
This would be a great tool whenever you want to advertise your post on Facebook. Almost everyone has an FB account already and publishing your posts with a “Like” button would be a great way to share your post to the world
This plugin automatically embeds a Facebook Like button on your post. Isn’t that neat?
Insert Code
For tech blogs or tutorial blogs that has something to do with codes this would really be one helpful plugin. With this HTML, Javascript and C# codes could be inserted on your post.
![image{0}[9]](http://www.biggtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/image09.png "image{0}[9]")
Question: Why have this if you can just type them? Well, the Live Writer reads texts just like HTML and if you post HTML codes, when published, your instructions wouldn’t be seen because the codes are hidden. If you know HTML, you’d understand.
Twitter Notify
This plugin will prompt you whenever you post. The prompt would be about posting your article on Twitter.
This would not be great for everyone though, this is just highly advisable for people who forgets to tweet their posts.
There you go. The best Windows Live Writer 2011 plugin that will surely make your blogging easier, faster, and much more fun!
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