Word 2007 Blogging

Tue, 01/20/2009 - 10:20 — northben

Microsoft Word 2007 can publish to a blog. It's pretty cool. In Drupal, activate the Blog-API module. In Word, click the round button in the corner, then choose Publish, Blog. The URL is http://www.yourwebsite.com/drupal/xmlrpc.php

To upload images in drupal, it seems the best/easiest way to do this is with FTP. In the picture options, use ftp://ftp.mysite.com/pictures as the Upload URL. This is your URL to the FTP server. Once you close out of the settings and attempt to upload, you will be prompted for your FTP username and password. The source URL is the public-accessible URL where the images can be found.

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Wed, 07/29/2009 - 17:14 — Glen (not verified)

Word 2007 & Drupal

Actually, I just set this up recently and the picture optioin "My blog provider" works fine for uploading images. In fact, Word 2007 works with most Drupal content types and not just blogs, but there are a few things that don't work well.

For instance, when using word art in your content, the position and wrapping options don't translate and the resulting image is always left aligned with no wrapping. Also, there is no way to insert a teaser break using Word and terms are not available.

With just a little reformatting online required after publishing with Word 2007, it's turning out to be a good option for content editing on my site.

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