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Does anybody know how to configure Windows Live Writer to publish images embedded in a blog post written for a dotnet blog?
Any help will be appreciated.
why dont you try open a flickr account and just post to the url of that image?
That will work, but there are organisations that I know of that block access to the Flickr site using software like WebSense. Subscribers who read the blog in those organisations will not be able to see the images on my blog.
Is there maybe a better solution?
Have you tried http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=CSGalleryPluginWLW? I haven't tried it myself but it looks promising. If it doesn't work I'll open a ftp site for blog users where they can publish images to. Cheers, Armand
Thanks Armand. The plugin uses photographs that already exist in your blog's gallery. It will still need a manual upload process.
The FTP option sounds like a good option. It seems like a standard way to upload images (at least among blog post editors).
I checked before I suggested it and it seems to be able to upload pictures to the gallery. I apologise in advance if it can't as I still haven't gotten around to test it. The problem with the ftp is how to control access, who gets accounts etc etc. What I might do is create a single account and give people access as they need it. Will let you know. From the site: Description =========== This plugin for Windows Live Writer allows you to add images from Community Server Galleries to your posts. It also allows the uploading of pictures.
Ok Armand - looks like I didn't do my homework concerning this plugin :). I'll give it a shot next time I need to post an image.
To pick up on the FTP option again - there are certain FTP servers that assign different home directories to different users. So when I log in, the default folder will be different to the default folder when you log in. Is this what you are after? As for logging in, I presume that we can use the same credentials as our blog login?
Also in response to your comment: is it a bad thing to give anyone who has a blog access to the FTP server? Is there something restricting that? I'd be interested to know.
Keep up the good work buddy!
I spend 10 minutes trying to get this plugin to work. Was quite buggy and threw errors with galleries that had more than a few photos in. Also, I couldn't find a way to _upload_ photos using it, only a way to use existing photos in my gallery. Will look at it again tonight if i get time - the source code is available, so perhaps it can be tweaked...
One of the problems is that the users are maintained in Community Server. To mirror that user base in Active Directory would really be a maintenance nightmare. Another issue is around security, should I create an AD user for every blog user to give individual ftp site access I would have to create a new password for that user as well as the passwords are stored in a hashed form in CS which is good for all of us. But while typing up all these excuses I figured that it might have been quicker just setting up a shared ftp site similar to the codesamples one we used to have instead of typing up this comment :-) Done. I'll send you the login details and also make a general site admin post about it. The images are http://dotnet.org.za/blogger_images/ and the codesamples are http://dotnet.org.za/codesamples. Hope this helps.
Thank you Armand :-)