Wordpress Ready

A short story.

Mike is beginning with your blog. One site, one browser, one wordpress editor. He is happy with it, but he has so many areas to cover that it decides he want to work with another blog. Two sites,  two editors.

Life is good.
Mike starts blogging both. Their sites are growing and he’s becoming a blog writer. Log in one blog, write, log in another blog, write… is that just easy. He doesn’t even need to remember log details for each site, the browser does it for him. One small problem though: some times it is painfully slow to edit with WP editor. If he works from Iphone it could be worst.  So many ideas to write, so little time… He wants to write post under 5 minutes, like a Twitter-blogger.

Time goes by and one day he begin another blog. He is working for a client. Three sites, three places to login and write.
Three windows, one for every blog. Things are going good, with some complication but he can handle.

Life is good… but it could be better.

Sometimes he is posting in the wrong places, but it’s alright, it is easy to fix and repost in the proper place. Every time he uses another computer he has to setup from scratch.
Sometimes he wishes to optimize its times, and he wanted to know how to do it.
…
(a year passes).
…
Mike is now blogging actively in few sites, for free, for itself and from other customers. It is getting complicated to follow each one. many users, paswords, and it is beggining to be crazy when he has to upload content on every one. Some time ago he decided to use a personal laptop. He refuses to use another computer, the setup is simply time consuming. Life is something between earth and hell.
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Ok, let’s multiply this scenario in some degree. What about if you are a professional blog writer maintaining a couple of sites, what about 10 or 20 blogs? Ok, I’m exaggerating a little bit (or isn’t?), we don’t have to go that far to understand what I’m pursuing here, but what if you are posting in many blogs? Is there any tools to aliviate your tasks?

They are indeed. The weblog client are here from sometime. They have some in common:

• Write post withoout having to be online
• Save drafting
• Faster interface
• Better formatting (well, it should be)
• Cross-post multiple blogs
• Local backups

Scribefire has all of this and a few others:

• Lightweight since it is a Firefox plugin
• easily upgradeable
• continous support
• Portable. If you are a traveller and use different computers, chances are that you use Firefox Portable. No many  blogging clients are portable (is there any?). Scribefire will go with you and with every Firefox Portable version you have on your pendrive.

I tested many blogger clients. I think BlogDesk is nice one, it has a minor drawbacks (non portable , some details related about how to handle draft/post items). Maybe one of the annoying problems (to me) is the inability to handle custom fields, something that we can discuss later in other post.(Yes, there is a solution)

To the point: the main factor for a weblog client is its ability to remote-blogging. You don’t have to log in your blog to post. With a proper configuration, it is much faster to blog from a weblog client than from wordpress editor itself.

Tell me what you think. Grab your timer and do the math.

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