WordPress and Word

Microsoft Word has a feature to use Word to compose and publish a blog entry. I have used this periodically and have had mixed feelings about it. Now that I am hosting my own blog using WordPress I wanted to test this feature out again. How does it work with formatting different things and how well does the overall look and feel match the rest of the blog?

Here is some code…

static bool RenameFile(FileInfo fi, string newFullFilename) {    try    {         fi.MoveTo(newFullFilename);         Console.WriteLine("New={0}", newFullFilename);    }    catch (Exception ex)    {        Console.WriteLine("Error {0} renaming {1}", ex.Message, newFullFilename);         return false; }   return true; }

 

Here is a picture…



I notice that it does not do multi column or other more advanced formatting normally available in Word. Maybe I will give this a shot since it does give you the robust spelling/grammar checking of Word.

PS.  I had to go into this post from the WordPress editor and clean up the code section.  The different way of single spacing something using <p> vs <br> is the issue.  Every line of code is a <p> when in fact I want it to end with <br>.  Oh well.  Not as good as I hoped.

I took the code above and plugged it into the code formatter I previously blogged about here.  It looks like the following, which in preview mode looks pretty good.

 static bool RenameFile(FileInfo fi, string newFullFilename)  
 {  
   try  
   {  
      fi.MoveTo(newFullFilename);  
      Console.WriteLine(“New={0}”, newFullFilename);  
   }  
   catch (Exception ex)  
   {  
     Console.WriteLine(“Error {0} renaming {1}”, ex.Message, newFullFilename);  
     return false;  
   }  
   return true;  
 }  

 

First WordPress Entry

I have been doing a little more blogging lately and have been growing more frustrated with Blogger each time.  Not that it's that bad, but it's not that great either.  I have had my own domain sitting dormant for some time now.  I used to use this as a place out on the Internet where I could test my code "in the real world".

My wife told me about WordPress a while back and I asked her again about it today.  So I spent the day getting it loaded up, configured, copying over the content and making some customizations.

Overall I like the product.  Especially given the price.