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You’ll see your template start to magically come to life as a perfect mirror of the post you’re currently editing.Ĭaveat: Because of the way MarsEdit’s “instant” updates work in the preview window, you can’t use placeholders in the secton of your template. Delete all of that, then select “Insert Placeholder -> Body” from the placeholder popup.ĭo the same for your post’s Title, Categories, etc. ![]() Try Cmd-F to search for the first word in your blog post, and then select the text and all its HTML until you get to the end of the blog post. So you squint your eyes and go scrubbing through the template, looking for the “content” and replacing it with a template placeholder. Try Cmd-F to search for “href” and “url(” in your template.īy now you should have a pretty good looking preview! The only problem is, it shows you the content of your reference post! You need to insert placeholders where all the “interesting things” are. You’ll probably know that you need to find some more links to change because something is missing or just doesn’t look right in the preview. You’ll need to change it to include your host name: Href=”blog/wp-content/themes/rsbubbles/style.css” For instance, if your HTML links to CSS style sheet like this: This won’t be necessary for all blogs, but if your HTML has relative links in it, you’ll need to replace those links with full links. You should immediately see the preview window become a lot more like your blog looks on the web! Delete the default template text to make room for your custom template.Ĭopy the HTML source from the web browser’s “View Source” window and paste it right into the MarsEdit template window. You’ll probably see the default template that MarsEdit uses for all new blogs. Then click the “Edit Template” button in the lower-right corner of the window. With a post editor window open in MarsEdit, click the Preview icon in the toolbar to open the Preview window. For instance, here’s the single page view for this entry.įrom your browser, select “View Source.” This varies from browser to browser but in Safari you can just control-click the page content and then select it from the menu. Go to your blog and click on the title (usually) of one of your posts, to get the “all on one page” view. We’re going to build your template by starting with a “typical” entry page from your blog. ![]() I’m going to look at ways of streamlining this process in MarsEdit, but for the time being I thought it would help to post a sort of tutorial about how you can get your own blog set up with “perfect previews” in MarsEdit. For instance, Windows Live Writer uses a nifty trick where it posts a temporary entry and then immediately deletes it, so that it can get a “reference” page to build a template from. To be sure, there’s a lot MarsEdit could do to make this template-editing process easier. It won’t have any of the fantastic stylings of your blog until you edit the “template” that MarsEdit uses to generate the preview. Straight out of the box, MarsEdit’s preview looks pretty bland. Unfortunately, the initial setup is a little bit daunting. This is fantastic because you can spot formatting errors and typos before publishing the item. Family packs are also available for up to five people in a household.One of the most time-saving features of MarsEdit is its Preview window, which uses the power of Safari’s WebKit to render a browser-perfect version of your post before you send it to the blog. ![]() MarsEdit 5 runs $59.95 for a new license, though owners of MarsEdit 4 can upgrade for just $29.95. It remains the best-in-class Mac blogging app that it’s been for more than fifteen years. In addition, developer Daniel Jalkut has made tweaks an enhancements throughout, adding a bunch of improvements that bring the app into line with the latest versions of macOS. ![]() There’s also a revamped rich text editor that provides better performance, a schmancy new icon, and-at long last-syntax highlighting for text written in Markdown. Version 5.0 of the app debuts today, following a public beta, and brings a number of much anticipated features, including a microposting interface accessible via a global keyboard shortcut that makes it easy to quickly dash off a blog post-though I do wish it had an “Advanced” mode for specifying some additional metadata for a post. The new microposting feature lets you write blog posts as easily as social media. If you’ve been blogging on the Mac for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with Red Sweater Software’s excellent MarsEdit blogging software. MarsEdit 5 brings microposting, Markdown highlighting
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