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BlogJet 2.6.1 released

June 30, 2011 by Dmitry

We are happy to announce the awesome new release of BlogJet 2.6.1, our blog editor for Windows.

What’s New

  • Live Preview and Markdown support.

  • Shortcut for Post as Draft (Ctrl+Alt+Enter).

  • Asking to save draft after publishing or posting as draft problem fixed.

BlogJet screenshot — HTML preview

More about preview and Markdown

You can now preview your post while writing. Because preview window supports Markdown filter, you can easily write Markdown-formatted text.

Each blog account has a preview template file, so you can edit preview file to apply different styles to different blogs. Preview template is stored along with accounts file (not Program Files/BlogJet/Data because it need admin account to write it on Windows Vista and 7). Click “Edit Template” button in Preview to open folder with template file.

This preview file is also used in Recent Posts preview.

Note about Markdown preview. When you select Markdown filter, Normal view (WYSIWYG Editor) is disabled because switching between Code editor (Markdown text) and Normal editor would have corrupted your Markdown text. You can set default preview filter option at Manage Accounts (F5) window.

Please note that Markdown-formatted text is not converted to HTML by BlogJet when posting, it requires you to turn on Markdown filter in your blog server. It’s easily done in WordPress and Movable Type — please refer to your blog server software documentation.

BlogJet screenshot — Markdown preview

Download

As usual, you can download the new version of BlogJet from its product page.

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7 Responses to “BlogJet 2.6.1 released”

  1. Zarrar · 2 Aug 11

    Hi, I am not able to see a button allowing the creation of a new category for Drupal sites.

  2. Dmitry · 2 Aug 11

    Zarrar: As far as I know, Drupal doesn’t support creation of categories via API (if using MetaWeblog API).

  3. Zarrar · 2 Aug 11

    Also, a major that would be very helpful is if BlogJet could have reporting features. Create a client, add site URLs, group them, write content, submit, and add add it as a statistic somewhere, which could become a report. If bloggers have multiple sites, and I use BlogJet on about 95 domains, then having stats and reporting is the logical next step.

  4. Zarrar · 2 Aug 11

    Dimitry, According to this http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/blogapi Drupal may not be limited to just MetaWeblog API. Thanks.

  5. Dmitry · 2 Aug 11

    Zarrar: unfortunately, only WordPress API supports creating new categories (http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.newCategory), and it seems like there’s no WordPress API support in Drupal.

  6. Zarrar · 2 Aug 11

    Any thoughts on adding reporting capabilities.

  7. Shane Birley · 7 Jan 12

    The BlogAPI Is Being Rewritten for Drupal http://drupal.org/project/blogapi

    Just thought I would mention it. Some cool things happening.