A great platform for drafting blog posts is Windows Live Writer (hat tip to Neville Hobson for sharing this resource with me a couple of years ago).
However I came across a problem using it last week when uploading YouTube videos to my blog.
You see when I had added the embed code and then published the blog post, clicking on the play button of the online video I found the video opened in YouTube rather than my blog.
I checked with my YouTube friend Julie Perry (a whizz on YouTube marketing strategies) to see if she had ever had a problem like this but she hadn’t. However Julie noticed something in the source code of my blog post with the embedded online video.
So I republished the articles taking out the code from having published them through Windows Live Writer and I managed to get rid of the bug.
This might be something particular to my blog – but I thought I’d share it in case anyone else using Windows Live Writer with Wordpress.org has found a similar problem.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Hey Krishna — I’m glad you blogged about this, because I was trying to explain it to another blogger the other day, and I couldn’t recall what it was that had given you the problem. (I ended up tracing back to our direct messages when we were trying to figure it out, and picked up that it was Windows Live Writer.)
This is a great find — that Windows Live Writer w/ WordPress will give you trouble posting embedded YouTube videos.
I’m off to tweet this now.
Cheers!
~Julie
P.S. Thanks for the shout-out for my YouTube Secret Weapon product.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
If Windows Live Writer detects that your blog post does not accept embed codes through the xml-rpc endpoin t(the way WLW can talk with your blog), it will replace the embed with an image and link it to the final image.
I explain more here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brandonturner/archive/2008/09/18/only-microsoft-can-make-something-so-simple-this-complex.aspx
You can try to change this behavior by going to Blog | Edit Blog Settings | Advanced… then change to “supports embeds”.
If you have more question feel free to email the Windows Live Writer team directly at wlw-team@microsoft.com