Friday Dec 1, 2006

wp_publisher: desktop posting tool for WordPress

Posted at 01:08:36 pm by hari under My software (188 views)

I've written a Python GUI application to publish to a WordPress blog from the desktop. It has a simple interface and is not really a full "client" for WordPress. However, I think it would be useful to many people who simply want to post to their blog after composing their post offline (in a text file). It supports most of the post publishing options in WordPress including adding multiple categories and the option to turn off/on comments and pingbacks.

To run it, simply download the tar.gz file, extract it and run the wp_publisher.py program from the command line.

Download: wp_publisher.tar.gz (5.2 kB)

Dependencies: python, libglade, python-gtk, python-glade (GTK 2.0)

Screenshot:
wp_publisher

6 comments

Comment from: LinuxLala [Visitor] · http://linuxlala.net

Will give this a try and get back with details. Looks usable enough, and from the screenshot appears that one can choose a category as well. That's a feature that not many Blog-clients offer, and you have a multiple category option.

Impressive!

Saturday Dec 2, 2006 @ 00:21

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Thanks LinuxLala. I'm not yet planning on a complete client because I don't think the other features like editing old posts etc. etc. will be used much. Anyway, if you think this needs more features, just drop a line here.

Saturday Dec 2, 2006 @ 09:24

Comment from: J_K9 [Visitor] · http://linux.wolphination.com

This looks like an extremely useful app! I won't be able to try it out until Wednesday, but I'm looking forward to it.

Nice job, Hari

Friday Dec 8, 2006 @ 01:32

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Thanks J_k9. I await your feedback eagerly.

Friday Dec 8, 2006 @ 08:26

Comment from: Johnnie [Visitor] · http://www.ihatesheep.co.uk/

Thanks for writing this - it's just what I was looking for. Nice to see a plain and simple list of dependencies along with the download, too - if only every *nix program did that, my life would be a lot simpler.

Friday Dec 15, 2006 @ 17:12

Comment from: hari [Member] · http://literaryforums.org

Johnnie, are you being sarcastic?:mrgreen: Because I'm sure I missed mentioning one dependency which is python-xmlrpc.

Sorry about that.

Friday Dec 15, 2006 @ 18:10

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