Contents:
- Downloading Windows Live Writer
- Configuring Windows Live Writer
- Troubleshooting (If you are Engineer Read this section first)
Windows Live Writer is an excellent tool for editing your website, it is optional but Highly Recommended!
To begin you have do download and install Windows Live writer onto your computer. Download Windows Live writer from this URL:
http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/
On that page Click the Download button.
Screenshot of Windows Live Writer Page
When you click on the Download Button it will download the Windows Live Installer (wlsetup-all.exe) onto your computer, Open that program to begin the Installation process: (Download takes about a minute)
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As you go through the process Windows Live will give you the option to install Windows Messenger, and other Windows Products. You can install those or if you know that you wont use those programs deselect them to save you time.
Make sure Writer is marked for installation
The installation process will take about 1 minute or so, after it's done Windows Live Writer is installed on your computer!
It will ask you to sign up for Windows Live but you don't have to if you don't want to:
You DON'T have to sign up you can just click close
Windows Live Writer is installed ... Now What?
Now open Windows Live Writer - Start > All Programs > Windows Live > Windows Live Writer
You will be greeted with a screen asking you which Blog Service do you use. Choose Other Blog Service.
Choose 'Other Blog Service' and Click Next
It will ask you to Add a Blog account, insert the following information:
Web Address of your Blog: http://yourdomain.byu.edu/node/add/page (example: http://centerforservice.byu.edu/node/add/page)
Username: Your Drupal Username
Password: Your Drupal Password
Select Remember my password for convenience
Make sure everything is correct, replace clsupport with your domain e.g. multicultural
Click next and it will ask you to Select Blog Type, Select 'Movable Type API' In the remote posting URL for your Blog area, put: http://yourdomain.byu.edu/xmlrpc.php (example: http://centerforservice.byu.edu/xmlrpc.php).
Make sure you make selections exactly as above and replace 'clsupport.byu.edu' with your domain e.g. 'multicultural.byu.edu'
You will be asked which type of Content you will be editing, in most cases select Page:
Select Page from this list
It will attempt to detect Blog settings and download a Theme, (If the theme download doesn't work it's not a big deal).
You can then provide a Blog Nickname, use something easy to remember like "Center for Service Website" or "Multicultural Website". It can be whatever you want:
Give your website a Nickname and Click Finish
YOUR FINISHED!! Good Job!
Now that you got the hard part out of the way, you may want to read our tutorial on using Windows Live Writer.
Troubleshooting: for Advanced Users
In order for all of this to work the following Modules need to be enabled on the website
- Blog API MUST BE UNENABLED AND IF IT WAS ENABLED HAS TO BE UNENABLED THEN UNINSTALLED
- WLW Blog API
- Upload (for image uploading)
You also have to select the content types people can edit in Windows Live Writer
- Go to Site Configuration > By Module
- Under Blog API Click on Blog API
- Enable at least 'Page' for External Blogging Clients, probably set File Size upload to about 5 Megs or so.
You may have to set Authenticated User Permissions to full on BlogAPI but i'm not completely sure if it's necessary yet. I'm also guessing that the theme will download if Authenticated user is given full permission to Blog API.