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A Weblog Client is software you run on your local machine (desktop) that lets you post to your blog via XML-RPC. In some cases, the Weblog Client can even manage your weblog entries. You might think of Weblog Clients as the equivalent of email clients such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and Eudora Mail. Essentially, the Weblog Client allows you to write a post even if you are off-line; then, the next time you connect to the Internet, you can publish that post.

For information on blogging by email, see Blog by Email.

Advantages

The advantages of using a weblog client include:

The ability to write posts without having to go on-line
The ability to save drafts
A nicer interface
Fancy formatting features
Features like cross-posting to multiple blogs
Faster uploading and addition of photos
The ability to keep local backups

List of Client Software

Browser-Based

Cross-platform browser-based clients. Also see Firefox Add-ons and Chrome Extensions.

AddToAny - Chrome and other browsers via bookmarklet(s)
Deepest Sender - Add-on for Firefox/SeaMonkey
ScribeFire - Firefox and Chrome

Mobile

Android

BlackBerry

iPhone

Nokia Phones

WordPress for Nokia
MaStory - Maemo/MeeGo only
WordPress blogging client - Maemo/MeeGo only

PalmOS

Plogit

Vim script

blogit.vim

Develop Your Own

You can always develop your own. Many scripts in Perl, Python, PHP, Applescript and Java have already been written and are ripe for the picking (and tweaking).

Your XML-RPC server/path are as described here:

If you login to WordPress on http://example.com/wordpress/wp-login.php, then you have:
- Server: http://example.com/ (some tools will just want the 'example.com' hostname part)
- Path: /wordpress/xmlrpc.php
- complete URL (just in case): http://example.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php

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Codex

Weblog Client

Contents

Advantages

List of Client Software

Windows

Mac OS X

Linux