MarsEdit or Ulysses or Ia Writer for blogging

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Just want to hear from my fellow bloggers which app do you use most for writing publishing your blogs?

I have tried all 3 but surprising enough I quite like Ia Writer. Also it is the only one that gives me the option to connect to WordPress.org and not directing me to WordPress.com. I have trouble getting Ulysses and MarsEdit to connect to my WP site, I guess I am doing something wrong. Also I do not like Ulysses that I cannot check my linked publishing site, again I could be missing something

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I love iA Writer and use it to post to WordPress and Micro.blog from the iPad.

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I’m sure Daniel Jalkut would be happy to help you out with Mars Edit. He’s an upstanding member of the Mac community.

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I’ve used MarsEdit with WordPress for years and will stick with it.

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I love Ulysses, but find iA Writer to be a much snappier application. (Especially once you get lots loaded into it.) I also appreciate that iA Writer now supports wiki links, so if you happen to use something like Obsidian, you can share the same library of documents.

I can’t speak to MarsEdit.

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I have successfully published to self-hosted WordPress blogs using Ulysses. You can also use the native WordPress app, or now the new Jetpack one.

Personally, I find the limitations of Markdown mean I write the words in Ulysses and push it up directly as a draft, before switching to Safari and just using the WordPress back end to natively ‘pretty up’ the content and publish.

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You may find this strange, but I usually use the built-in Gutenberg editor of WordPress. It offers many content modules, which can be extended with plugins. And I can always see how the article would look published. I’ve written over 1000 medium length articles this way without ever losing content. Very text-heavy articles or when I want to work on the road, I sometimes write in Obsidian as a draft.

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Neither. I use Drafts.

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Same here. I love MarsEdit.

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I adore MarsEdit for managing my actual posts, and especially my images/attachments. But I write in a combination of Drafts and iA Writer.

Actually stumbled on this thread searching for a script/URL/action to take a post from iA Writer and import it to MarsEdit.

I’m really bummed, because I’m looking to move off of Wordpress onto an SSG (11ty), and I’d love to make MarsEdit a part of that somehow, but it’s only for real CMSes.