Using Word 2007 to Blog with WordPress — full tutorial

  • (I’m starting this in its own topic, so it might get found if someone is searching for this.)

    I have worked up a screen-by-screen tutorial on how to use Microsoft Word 2007 to blog directly into WordPress. Some of you may have had heard bad things about this feature from the Office beta releases, but the latest release works very soundly.

    It is difficult to set up for image uploading, but my tutorial shows you how to do it, and should work for 99% of the people out there with standard web site hosting and FTP accounts.

    Why would you use Word to write your blog? Well, of course it has good spell checking and now has native support for WordPress built right in, making setup pretty easy. It is also convenient for some people to blog from within the MS Office suite, rather than firing up a browser or using another HTML editor. And, to be honest, this version of Word does a good job of avoiding any strange Word HTML, and strips it down to simple code. Using Word 2007 is also way easier than FrontPage or LiveWriter.

    But the big plus is the ability to format and manipulate images from within Word, and then upload them along with your blog entry. The new 2007 Word has some amazing image tools, like adding three dimensional effects to static images, perspective shadows, image shape alterations, skew and distort… and the quality of the output is amazing. With a few clicks you can make an ordinary image look AMAZING, without any extra picture editing software.

    Go here to read the tutorial, and see what I mean:

    https://www.spittleandink.com/isis/img/wordblogging/wordblogging.htm

    Feedback welcome, as I will update it to make it clearer if you need it.

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  • that’s a money tutorial. but i’m having problems with uploading pictures. i think i follow your directions to a t, and the pictures are uploaded to my upload directory, but then they for some reason never make the transfer to the source directory and so never show up in the post. any ideas what i’m doing wrong? i set permissions in my source folder to 777 so that shouldn’t be it…

    Wixona, I had the same problem, check to see if you have file uploads sorted by date. It outs all your uploads into folders by month. I unchecked that and now It works beautifully. Dont ask me why, something to do with, how word tries to upload your pics and where it puts them. It gets kinda messy in there,so make sure you know what pics you need before you start deleting anything. let me know if it works for you and if it doesnt we can try to duplicate my setup, BTW, Kudos to the guy who wrote the tut, this is no slam on that at all, It works beautifully, and I dont think I could go back to WPS cludgy interface for editing ever again. Word makes it a pleasure instead of a task.

    Hi there. Googled this topic and found your tutorial. It’s tremendous. Thank you for posting it.

    Background: I have been able to post from Word 2007. Couple questions though if you have a minute.

    First, can you create a WP page from Word 2007 or just a post?

    Second, I can’t seem to get images I put in Word 2007 to show up in the post once it goes to WP.

    Frankly, I’m no expert when it comes to WP and it’s possible I either don’t have the image directory set up correctly there, or MORE LIKELY, I didn’t do the initial Word 2007 setup correctly as you outline for “first time users.”

    Any ideas would be much appreciated.

    Best regards,
    Joel Jaeger

    Great tutorial!! Each time I try to register an account I am getting a message saying “Word can not register your account. The provider where you are trying to publish is unavailable.”

    I am sure the web address and username and password are correct. Any suggestions?

    but i’m having problems with uploading pictures. i think i follow your directions to a t, and the pictures are uploaded to my upload directory, but then they for some reason never make the transfer to the source directory and so never show up in the post. any ideas what i’m doing wrong? i set permissions in my source folder to 777 so that shouldn’t be it…

    Uploading images is an issue for me too. They look like they are going to make it and they actually say they are there but 0kb is being transferred.

    Has anyone found a solution to this as yet. Love to hear from you if so ??

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