The new upgrade is also available on the Mac App Store and will be available on Setapp. MarsEdit 4 customers can upgrade for $29.95, and MarsEdit 5 is a free update for MarsEdit 4 customers who purchased the app between Jand today. MarsEdit 5.0 is available as a one-time purchase for $59.95, and you can try it for 14 days for free. Support for inserting photos and sketches directly from iPhone or iPad.New inline find/replace interface used throughout the app.New calendar-based date editor changing publish dates.New “Micropost” interface for streamlined publishing of short-form posts.Rich editor now based on modern WebKit2 for improved performance and reliability.New Markdown syntax highlighting in plain text mode. Updated app icon with a modern style suitable latest macOS.Here’s the full change log for MarsEdit 5: It’s something you appreciate more when you follow the development of MarsEdit and Micro.blog on Daniel Jalkut’s and Manton Reece’s Core Intuition podcast. Jalkut explains for the non-developers like me on the MarsEdit 5 launch blog post. However, this change to how rich text formatting works behind-the-scenes is an investment in the future of MarsEdit and how the app adopts modern technologies. It’s an under-the-hood jump to “WebKit2” that shouldn’t change day-to-day usage. If you’re like me and match keyboard shortcuts to rich text formatting for hyperlinking and stylizing, MarsEdit 5 has something for you as well. What’s new in MarsEdit 5 is Markdown syntax highlighting so words can appear **bold** or _italicized_ in MarsEdit as you write, for example. The app either sent the Markdown text to your blog or converted it to HTML automatically when publishing. MarsEdit was already a fully capable blogging app for writers using Markdown to format posts. Admittedly, I’m a basic rich text writer, but I totally get the appeal of Markdown (especially over HTML). MarsEdit 5 also introduces a great quality-of-life improvement for writers who prefer Markdown for text formatting. Future updates to the Micropost panel will bring photo and video attachments. While the rest of MarsEdit is a full canvas for blogging, the Micropost panel is tuned for speed with a text field and an optional title field. MarsEdit 5 introduces a Micropost panel that can be activated with a system-wide keyboard shortcut so posting a thought to your blog can be as easy as churning out a joke on your timeline. spoiled by Twitter) to make ideas concise and easy to share. People with opinions and observations have been trained by modern social media post formats (i.e. I can see myself blogging about Apple from Mars on an iPad by the end of this decade - assuming Stage Manager gets sorted out by then.īack to the current timeline, MarsEdit 5 has read the room and noticed that bloggers aren’t always sitting at the desk with a medium to long story to tell. No word about MarsEdit for iOS, but that icon could easily be adapted to fit the iPhone and iPad. It continues the awesome rocket-over-the-red-planet theme while conforming to Apple’s current macOS icon style. MarsEdit 5 developer Daniel Jalkut credits Mac community designer Brad Ellis for the new app icon. MarsEdit 5 comes almost exactly five years after the last major version dropped, and it includes a modernized icon to match the rest of your Mac dock. Finally, it’s possilbe that your web hosting company is blocking access to the xmlrpc.php, so you should contact them to confirm access is available to apps such as MarsEdit.The excellent Mac desktop blogging app MarsEdit has landed with version 5.0 and some timely new features. If this doesn’t work, take a look inside your WordPress directory on the blog server, to see if your xmlrpc.php file has been moved or renamed. This is not a sign of an error, but reflects the fact that WordPress expects an app like MarsEdit to connect to the URL, instead of a browser. A normal response from a WordPress blog will read: XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only. If you want to confirm this in a browser, simply type the URL into the address bar and press return. The API Endpoint URL is usually where is the path to your site. Please review that article and use the specific details obtained by the instructions below to finish connecting MarsEdit to your blog. by the instructions below to finish connecting MarsEdit to your blog. These details pertain to the higher level Manual Configuration instructions. Red Sweater Help / MarsEdit / MarsEdit Configuration / WordPress Configuration.
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