I much prefer Windows Live Writer for its ease of use, the ability to keep drafts off-line, and other capabilities.
Even so, I don’t have complete access to Movable Type functionality, and I want to maximize that.
Two valuable additions would include
- creation of Movable Type tags/keywords or whatever they are
- uploading of pictures to the assets folder below the post month that are used when I import images using the Movable Type browser editor for authoring
I am sure there are more provisions of interest, but these are the ones that attract my interest.
What I’m wondering right now is what happens if I retrieve interesting posts into Windows Live Writer, posts that were originally authored in Movable Type’s browser interface. Perhaps that will reveal something useful about how things work and how I might accomplish the same with Windows Live Writer?
I have confirmed that reposts of past material will carry the embedding of the same images and will also preserve any tags. There is no evidence of the tags in Windows Live Writer and there appears no way to influence them, although they are not lost.
An interesting challenge will be with cross-posting, both with regard to image location and with regard to tags. I'm betting the images work and the tags are blown away.