Title: edit posts with vim
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# edit posts with vim

 *  [theblob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theblob/)
 * (@theblob)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-with-vim/)
 * Is there a way to directly edit WordPress posts with vim? I do not want to create
   new posts – I want to edit existing ones. I am especially interested in editing
   pages, although it would be nice to be able to edit blog entries too.

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-with-vim/#post-527441)
 * Nope.
 * The content of your posts is stored in the MySQL database.
 *  Thread Starter [theblob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theblob/)
 * (@theblob)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-with-vim/#post-527553)
 * Howdy. Being stored in a MySQL database does not alone make it impossible to 
   edit in vim. There already is a vim plugin for writing new blog posts – [http://not.upbylunch.com/2006/05/16/wordpress-posting-vim-script/](http://not.upbylunch.com/2006/05/16/wordpress-posting-vim-script/).
   Assuming that this plugin works, in principle it should be possible to write 
   a vim plugin for editing existing page or blog posts using the MetaWeblog API(
   or possibly some other way). I asked the author of this plugin about this a few
   days ago, and didn’t hear anything, so I figured I would ask here.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-with-vim/#post-527553)
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