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.

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.

Download

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

What’s New

• Background networking for posts refresh, posts delete, categories refresh, creating and deleting categories.

• Recent Posts now has slide mode with content preview. You can switch back to column mode (multi selection is only available at column mode).

Get It

As usual, you can download the new version from BlogJet product page on our website.

We’ve just released a new small update for BlogJet, version 2.5.3. It includes a fix for a fundamental problem with post status. Let me explain what the problems was and what the fix does.

BlogJet have three statuses for posts. In older versions, you could see it at the right-hand part of the status bar. In the new version it has been moved to the properties pane under the “Status” label.

Statuses:

• New Post. As you can guess, it means a new post. When you click “Publish” if post status was ‘New Post’, BlogJet makes a request request to your blog service to create a new post. Easy.

• Editing. Editing means that the post has been already published (as a draft or not) to blog. So BlogJet request to update existing content with “Editing” status.

• Draft. When you save your post to a draft file or open the existing draft file, the post status is “Draft”. For such posts, does BlogJet makes a request to create new post or update existing post? Try it. Make a sample post. Publish it. Save it as draft file. Exit BlogJet. Launch BlogJet and open a saved draft file (now “Draft” mode). Publish it. Update or new?

The answer is, new post. Because BlogJet doesn’t save published status in the draft file, it’s always recognized as a new post. Draft file feature exists to save drafts when writing (before publishing) or for content backup, so it isn’t right to manage local copies of published posts.

I’m sure there are some people who don’t like this “always new post” thing for draft. But soon BlogJet will have “save draft” or “auto save” to local database feature, so I don’t want to fight with the above problem for now.

There is another status: for WordPress blogs we have “Page” or “Post”. It coexists with above three statuses. New Post or Page, Editing Post or Page, so on.

Nothing special. Simple. New Post, Editing, and Draft. For WordPress, page or post. Simple.

The problem appears after you publish a post to a certain blog (let’s call it “A blog”). If you switch the blog to “blog B”, what the status of this post will be?

In older version, BlogJet didn’t do anything for this “change blog after publishing” action. So the post still had “Editing” status. So when you clicked “Publish”, it would try to update the non-existing post (a post published to “A blog”). The result depends on your blog server. You might get an error, or nothing happens, or somehow a new post is created.

In 2.5.3, this problem is fixed. Status will be changed to “New Post” when you change a blog to B and back to “Editing” when you change it to A. Even with selected categories. So BlogJet now manages published states properly.

I know this is a small fix but hope it will reduce confusion.

What’s New

• Status bar removed. Normal/Code view buttons and Pings buttons are in the toolbar.
• Post status, word count, and Page/Post choice have been moved to the properties pane.
• Heading 1-6 button in the toolbar. If there is selected text, it makes it the heading. If there’s no selection, it asks you for the heading text.
• Fix for a post status problem. It needs a longer explanation, so please check the upcoming post to learn more.

Release Notes

• Added category support for Blogger.
• Fixed occasional error when posting to Blogger.
• Fixed a bug with uploaded image url fetch with SquareSpace.
• Removed Twitter support.
• Removed music detector feature.

You can download the new version from BlogJet page.

Unicode support

BlogJet now has full Unicode support, so you can write blog posts in any language, and even mix languages.

Spelling

BlogJet 2.5 has a brand new spell checker which supports live spelling and many options (including auto correction).

Pages

Support for creating and editing pages on WordPress, MovableType and TypePad blogs.

Categories and Tags

Support for creating and deleting categories on WordPress blogs and fetching server-side tags.

Recent Posts

BlogJet 2.5 introduces the new modeless Recent Posts window with sidebar, which supports multiple blogs and pages. Under blog titles there are “Posts” and “Pages” items. Also, you can select mutiple posts or pages for bulk deletion.

Release Notes

Here is the list of what’s new in BlogJet 2.5 since the last official release, 2.0.1.4:

• Full unicode support.
• New spell checker with live spelling and many options (including auto correction).
• Clean theme that looks native in Vista and Windows 7.
• View Details in WYSIWYG editor.
• Ability to toggle word wrap in code editor.
• Automatic closing of tags in code editor.
• TypePad image uploading problem solved.
• Support for creating and editing pages on WordPress, MovableType, and TypePad blogs.
• New modeless Recent Posts to support multiple blogs and pages with sidebar. Under blog titles there are “Posts” and “Pages” items.
• You can select type of new posts using “Post”/”Page” buttons in status bar.
• Multiple selection of posts or pages (useful for bulk deletion).
• Ability to create new categories and delete them (WordPress only)
• Show and select server-side tags (WordPress only)

You can download BlogJet 2.5 from its product page. This update is free for registered customers. New users can get a free 30-day trial version.

What’s New

• Support for creating and editing of pages in WordPress, MovableType, and TypePad blogs.
• New Recent Posts to support multiple blogs and pages with sidebar. Under blog titles there are “Posts” and “Pages” items. Plus you can select type of new posts using “Post”/”Page” buttons in status bar.
• Multiple selection of posts or pages (useful for bulk deletion).

• Ability to create new categories and delete them (WordPress only)
• Show and select server-side tags (WordPress only)

Get it now:

Download BlogJet 2.5.0.12 Beta (4.2 MB)

Let us know about any problems you encounter in BlogJet Beta forum.

What’s New

• “View Details” in WYSIWYG editor.

• Ability to turn on and off word wrap for code editor.
• AutoComplete in code editor.

• Automatic closing of tags in code editor.

• Fixed issue with using Alt key for menu shortcuts.
• Recents Posts window is now modeless. (Note: it has been changed to modeless but currently it doesn’t reflect changing accounts and doesn’t reload published posts, you need to close and reopen it for changes to appear. This will be fixed in the future release)
• TypePad image uploading problem is solved.
• TypePad “Get recent posts” error is fixed.
• Fixed a lot of issues with drafts and WYSIWYG editor.
• Fixed setting default font as “Times New Roman” (font preferences work the same way as in BlogJet 2.0 now).
• Now dictionaries are placed into AppData/Spell folder (fixes Win7/Vista custom dictionary issue). (Note for Beta 2 users: please move custom dictionary files to AppData/DiFolders/BlogJet/Spell)
• Restored showing progress window when posting.

Download BlogJet 2.5.0.10 Beta (4.3 MB)

Let us know about any problems you encounter in BlogJet Beta forum.

What’s new

• Live Spelling, and a lot of spelling options (including auto correction)

• Fixed not remembering window position and size.

• Fixed overwriting custom HTML/JavaScript settings for BlogJetThis! when installing.

• Fixed treating punctuation as spelling errors.

Special thanks to Jack Vinson and other testers for reporting many of these bugs.

Known Issues

We’ll address the following issues in one of the next beta versions:

• Embedded Flash video clips (including YouTube) appear as black boxes (affects only appearance in editor, posting works well).

• Windows Vista/7 only: you need to launch BlogJet as administrator from Windows Explorer to add words to dictionary.

Download BlogJet 2.5.0.4 Beta (4.3 MB)

Please report any bugs you encounter in our beta forum.

What’s New

• Full Unicode support.
• New spell checker (you can download dictionaries here).
• Clean theme that looks awesome in Vista and Windows 7.

Download BlogJet 2.5 Beta (4.3 MB)

Full Unicode support is a big deal. You can write posts in any language and even mix languages:

Development and Next Releases

Now that we released 2.5 beta, the transition to a new code base (with most core parts completely rewritten) and a new development environment is done, so we’re ready to continuously improve BlogJet and release new versions faster.

BlogJet Beta Forum

We’re starting to be more open about BlogJet development, and replacing the closed beta forum with an open one. Please join us in BlogJet Beta Forum. You can report bugs in beta versions there.

Happy New Year! Enjoy the new BlogJet!