![]() ![]() What I often do with an article which has already been published is copy the Markdown out to iAWriter and edit it there. That way at least there will be a recent revision within WordPress as a fallback. If you have to stop working on an article, publish the changes in progress before leaving it, even if you are not completely finished. Do not leave edited articles open in MarsEdit unsaved on the server.If you do decide to do so, do so consciously thinking about where the most recent version of the changes are before opening or refreshing the post. This is difficult as MarsEdit is generally (media apart) a much better writing environment for major changes. ![]() ![]() After you have published an article on WordPress, don’t edit it any more in MarsEdit.How do I protect my data?Īt this point, there’s no way, except via strict workflow. I’ve scoured the MarsEdit preferences (there’s ten pages of them, happily nicely divided by functionality group) for a place a checkbox to check versions. Still worse, Refresh All will overwrite all data which may have been changed in MarsEdit. Overwriting data by default without warningĮven worse, if the version on the server is out of date and you have a more recent version in MarsEdit, Refresh will simply overwrite that post’s changes. In the worst case, you can copy two versions and manually merge them in a text editor like iAWriter (Markdown) or BBEdit, Smultron or CodeRunner (HTML). It’s a pain but there is visual diff built straight into WordPress to allow you to see what’s changed and what’s been lost. Fortunately WordPress offers revisions by default so it’s likely you will be able to recovery your work. Hence when publishing the modified post from MarsEdit, any work you or a colleague did on that post or page will be lost. There’s no notification when opening up a post in MarsEdit that the version on the server is more recent. Or if the version is more recent on MarsEdit one can publish to WordPress from MarsEdit and then take it over on WordPress for final tuning (media management is much more robust, naturally, from within WordPress, third-party content modification plugins like FV Player for instance, can only run properly on the server). Or one can refresh the whole weblog with shift-command-R. If the version on WordPress is more recent, then one can just click command-R to refresh the weblog post and get the most recent version before editing in MarsEdit. There’s two ways to save a WordPress post which has been published in MarsEdit, either on the server (within the WordPress interface) or within MarsEdit. If it wasn’t for MarsEdit there would be no way to post on WordPress from macOS except via the clunky WordPress interface which is anything except a writer’s tool (it’s impossible to forget the technology with all the options displayed at all times for publishing date, publishing status, categories, slug, tags, revisions, discussion, comments, trackbacks even without third party basics such as meta-description and social sharing options, let alone Yoast style post semantic SEO analysis).Īs I mentioned, it’s the save routine. Jalkut’s good intentions are not in doubt. Jalkut loves his users and is one of the good guys. 1 Alas, Daniel Jalkut has put MarsEdit users out on a very thin ledge, where it’s very difficult to go forward or back without falling off the ledge and losing huge amounts of work. Blogger as a platform seems to be dumbed down by Google now that it might just get axed in few years.The most important single task of a developer is to protect a user’s work from accidental deletion. So try the other tools, maybe all/most are borked now. No it stopped because Google changed rules Red Sweater Help - Blogger Configuration. It's just that both free & paid blogging apps seems to die left & right so it's even impressive MarsEdit, a native cocoa mac app still is getting updates & maintenance. Free & blogger support: aswinrajeev/ blogly, stackedit.io, (maybe it has),, there are probably some others.īut the best interface would still probably go to paid apps, notably MarsEdit. ![]()
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