17 April 2019

How to run Open Live Writer with blogspot.com with the help of Chocolatey

I havent written anything for a long time. One of the reasons was getting new computer without Live Writer on it. Okay, Live Writer is dead and now you will use Open Live Writer, but suddenly it stopped working with blogspot.com. I got instructions from this link https://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/how-to-get-open-live-writer-working-with-blogger

I will summarize it, because who knows how long the link is working and there is some typos also present:

Install Open Live Writer with my favourite software installer Chocolatey (see https://chocolatey.org/ for more information). After getting Chocolatey to work, open Administrative Command Prompt and run the following command:

cinst openlivewriter --version=0.5.1.2 -y

After running the command you will have the correct version, which works with blogspot.com

If you want to uninstall openlivewriter, then use this command:

cuninst openlivewriter -y

If you want to install Chocolatey with only one command line, use this command

powershell -ExecutionPolicy bypass "iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex"