Are you using WP 2.x yet?
My sequence: Paint.net, Save, WP Write Post screen, click upload, click picture and choose “Send to Editor”
No ftp tool. 🙂
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pcguys
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Yes, I am using WordPress 2.04.
I went to paint.net and the website is for an OEM coatings manufacturer (I guess I’m missing something).
Even if I figure out the paint thing, it still sounds like it needs to be saved, browsed, located then ‘uploaded’.
I’m about to create a different thread for a ‘plan-b: posting via e-mail. Please read it and let me know what you think.
Thanks for your reply.
Your search-fu is weak, grasshopper. http://getpaint.net
But that’s not really the point of your thread.
Post by email, in my opinion, blows goats. Perhaps you’d rather look at posting clients?
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Weblog_Client
The Microsoft Live Writer is probably the most impressive of the ones I’ve looked at with respect to how it handles images.
I see you used “blows goats” and “Microsoft” in two separate paragraphs.
I feel dizzy.
Now I note “Microsoft Live Writer” and “impressive” in the same sentence.
*shivers at the thought of installing yet another virus-like MS package*
If nothing else, I strive to not be predictable.
:-p
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pcguys
(@pcguys)
Thanks so much for suggesting a weblog client. I never heard of such a thing and am researching this direction right now.
Over lunch, I was looking at some other blogging software in hopes blog by email worked. Godaddy offers Nucleus blogging software free, pre-installed.
Oh, don’t be confused: WordPress offers blogging by email too. But (again, in my opinion) that’s just so 1990’s…
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Blog_by_Email
… and going back to your original post in this thread: Blogging by email won’t solve your image issues.
“..pasting to Paint, file | save as | FTP | upload | browse to it..” must be really tough 🙂
for me it took 2 sek to start paint from the start menu .. another 4 sek to paste and save as .. tabbed to ftp client .. uploaded the file .. etc ..
a working man has his tools ready .. just TAB betwen them .. you will see how smooth things can be
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pcguys
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HandySolo: you rock!
The Microsoft Writer at
http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1
is AWESOME! I can paste screen shots (or regions of screen shots) directly into the post and everything is automatic!
This does everything I want & need! I’ll stop looking for post by e-mail gizmos, or any other plugin or hack.
Thanks so much for pointing me in this direction!
Glad to be of service. I added that to the codex page this past weekend 🙂
It’s rather nifty, but don’t say that around Yosemite – he gets all bristly 😉
