jtpedersen

Hi Gabe,

Tried your link but, as with the rest, get a 404. Raven doesn’t seem to exist any more.

I’ve worked through the list and, in the interest of providing an update (and saving others similar sleuthing effort), here’s what I’ve found:

* BlogGTK is also dead. No activity of any kind since 9/26/2010.

* RocketPost, also an ‘essentially’ dead product. Anconia’s not supporting it and the reviews, well, let’s just say unfriendly is putting it mildly.

* BlogJet, pleasant enough looking app, seems a direct equal to Live Writer. Free to try, but $40. Considering it’s equal to WLW…

* BlogDesk – Seems most interesting of the bunch. Installs and configures very easily. Interface text is a bit hard to read (Win 3.1’ish). Unfortunately it’s not quite WYSIWYG. Or, at least it’s not compatible with what I’m doing in WP. Throws off a lot of spurious characters when opening any of my prior posts.

* ScribeFire’s clearly the best of the bunch. Unfortunately it’s browser-based. As such it’s only partially functional if you’re offline. That said, since I’m ‘generally’ online when writing, I’m going to dig in. What I’ve found initially is that it’s -very- fast interacting with my WP server. As in, never-seen-anything-quite-this-fast-before type interaction while blogging.

Cheers!

Hello Gabe,

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll take a look. And, yes, ‘better’ is highly subjective<g>.

WP Editor’s not bad, not bad at all for what it is, but it’s still not as feature rich as a desktop client. Even so, WLW clearly has it’s own limitations.

Cheers!

Ostwestf4le,

The interim solution is to deactivate and/or remove the plug-in from operation. Since you cannot login via the WP Admin interface, use your ISP’s admin login, use their File Manager (or equivalent functionality), navigate to your Blog>Content>Plug-Ins directory, and delete the Twitter-mentions-as-comments directory.

That will immediately restore your website.

Thank you for your response Tom.

Based on its current performance, this plug-in might best be removed from circulation. Compared to other current solutions (such as Jetpack WP Stats and Google Analytics) it is reporting activity 60X greater. I’m personally observing this behavior on different, unrelated sites.