![]() And then I happened to see someplace on the web mention MarsEdit.I think it was Daring Fireball. So, I'd been creating my WordPress posts in my browser for a few weeks (having just started out) and it's pretty slow and clunky. But most importantly: It costs less than 10 coffees (I average two at my coffee shop, so I spend more in a week on coffee than I have spent on ME in eternity), for crying out loud! Is that really expensive? Admittedly, my coffee is - but then I'm prepared to pay for that as well. You get personal support from the Author, which I find very appealing. Personally, I find the price for ME to be well justifiable. Guess why there aren't better offline WP editors available for less available on the Mac. Shut up, make a better product, and offer it for less. Then comment on the features, but do not say it should be cheaper. Purchase because you DO find the value proposition justifiable. Fair, but please do not comment on the software's features. Don't purchase because the value isn't right for you. I know that in the age of the App Store where the ongoing race to the bottom kills software fast it has become fashionable call software that cost more than $1 'expensive'.īut seriously, you as the customer have three options: To those who think that ME's price is 'too expensive': Please reconsider. Having that (or a template that is close enough) would really be the icing on the cake. ![]() Not everyone is able to extract HTML formatting from WP's templates and transfer them to ME. There are some minor quibbles or features that I wish ME would implement to make my experience even more pleasant (chiefly amongst them being able to select between templates for common wp templates like 'twenty-eleven'. A personal preference, for sure, but still. ![]() In a direct comparison with on-line editing from within WP I found that I prefer to edit my text in ME, and then upload. I don't know why, but that's simply where I write best. Offline editing is important to me because I compose most of my articles on my *ooooold* laptop, being on the road, between meetings, or (usually) sitting in a quaint, but lovely Coffee Shop without internet access. During sync, articles (and static pages) that I wrote on-line are synced back to ME. Since you can do much of that from within WP itself, the killer feature of ME is being able to create articles off-line and later synch them to your Blog. I like the ability to switch between HTML and Rich Text editing (I am *not* the world's greatest HTML buff), and seeing the results in the preview window updating live is a great help. In the context of your blog, ME allows you to create and update articles as well as stand-alone pages. I'm only using it for Wordpress (self-hosted) blogs, so I cannot comment on how well it integrates with other blogs. Users who purchased the in-app purchase via the Mac App Store can obtain the same upgrade discounts within the Mac App Store version of MarsEdit 5, when it becomes available, by locating a valid copy of MarsEdit 4 with premium features unlocked.Mars Edit is a capable, yet simple-to-use editor for Wordpress (and other) based blogs. For all other users the one-time purchase price is $59.95. For all other licensed MarsEdit 4 users, the upgrade fee is $29.95. This update is free for MarsEdit 4 users who purchased a license on or after June 1, 2022. If you publish to the Internet, you owe it to yourself to check out the latest MarsEdit. There are plenty of other small touches that show this is an app made by someone who cares. MarsEdit’s rich text editor got an overhaul using Apple’s latest WebKit2 technologies. ![]() This new growing feature set makes that easier. This helps you streamline short-form blogging. Moreover, Daniel has recently released version 5. With back on WordPress, I’ve been able to bring MarsEdit back into my life and I sure did miss it. They occasionally knock your valuables off the shelves “just because”.įor years, Daniel Jalkut has been publishing (and upgrading) MarsEdit, a native Mac app built so you can write your precious words offline (where there are no angry cats) and then easily publish them to your platform of choice. Web-based writing tools treat humans like angry cats do. If you ever write for the Web, one of the first things you learn is to never write on the Web.
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