The result is quite nice, and it works! MarsEdit is almost five years late: the text editor is simply the basic text window of OS X. Blogo tries to belong to this trendy family while offering more text tools on the screen. The background color is soft enough to smooth the screen contrast. It is very trendy, and its use is pleasant. MarsEdit needs to improve itself.ĭesk is a distraction-free editor. I believe it is possible to upload the draft and open a « Webkit » window to show the page (maybe I am too much optimistic…). You can customize your own custom fields! (However, I did not try.) Criterion #3: Preview is a WYSIWYG mode.Įven though I am able to live without that, it would be great to click and see the post in a preview mode, with all the CSS from the template applied. It has the ability to edit all the kind of meta-data that WordPress is using. MarsEdit is the strongest to manage content. However, the version that I have tested has some bugs! Sometimes conflicts appear. Blogo is far better to manage old post editing. Desk’s behavior is « new content-oriented » -). Result: MarsEdit is the more stableīlogo and Desk can manage posts but also categories, tags,… To edit an old post with Desk, you will have first to create a new document, then switch to list on the right, choose your blog in the list and then select the post! It is clearly not created to be a content manager. Ideally, the tool should be able to embed some third party plugins, well-known, and often used in WordPress, such as Yoast for Seo. Ideally, I would like to edit the Custom Post I have, due to the use of dedicated plugins. Also, I want to edit all the metadata linked to a post such as tags and keywords for categories, post status,… At last, the tool should synchronize all that stuff back and forth, in a seamless way. I do not want to use one tool to create a new one and another to edit old ones. This is the reason why the tool should be able to reload all the posts and pages published on my website. It is not an everyday task, but sometimes I like to go back to an old post to update some information, or to correct an error shown by one of my followers. Criterion #2: More than a text editor, a content manager. This is the reason why they seem to be more easy to use for this kind of tasks. It can be used for WordPress editing, but is mainly built for text editing in general: take small note, write a story, write articles,… Blogo and MarsEdit are dedicated to blog writing, especially WordPress. It is a « simple » distraction-free text editor. Then, you can edit them.ĭesk is not easy to use because it is not focused on WordPress. They connect to WordPress website (self-hosted or not), retrieve the data, list the posts. I did not buy a Mac to use it like a Minitel! Result: All the three software can do it! by hand, while some other software could do that just by a mouse click. However, I would have to do all the editing for titles, bold, etc. LibreOffice may be different but – to be honest – I am not ready to install a full desktop software just to edit some articles. Especially, I would have been able to use Antidote(R) software to have the right check spelling! Even so, copy and paste from Word could be a mess because some hidden characters are copied into the WordPress editor. I could have chosen to write in Word, LibreOffice or BBEdit. Thus, offline editing would be a must have to avoid this kind of annoying situation. However, for a few weeks, I have encountered numerous problems to reach my website while I was editing some posts! I lost some huge parts of an article, just because the virtual hosting machine went down between two updates of my work. They give usually a decent hosting service. Gandi is an excellent choice to host my WordPress site. Criterion #1: Dedicated tool vs Desktop Word editorįirst of all, I have made my decision to use an offline editor because my WordPress website is sometimes down. I had to buy Desk(tm) to test it, which is not fair. You can edit and save without any limitation for 21 days (Blogo) and 30 days (MarsEdit). So, apart Desk, MarsEdit and Blogo have a trial version of their respective website. You know what you really need, you will be the only one to find your way through many criteria and get the best tool for you. You can read numerous posts, articles, look at many YouTube videos. Having a trial… a must-have to make the right choice! Blogo and Desk are the new challengers of MarsEdit… The other softwares are too old to run smoothly with the latest versions of WordPress. Why am I not choosing other existing WordPress offline editors? They have to run on my mac. How to choose the best text editor for WordPress when you want to work offline? I will compare MarsEdit, Blogo, and Desk.
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