Windows Live transplant needing help with linking other websites to my blog
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Hello all :)
I’ve spent the morning looking through the FAQ and forum posts both here and on Windows live and can’t seem to find what I’m looking for. When I surf the web and find a website that I think is cool, I used to be able to just right click anywhere on that page and have the option to “Blog with Windows Live.” When I did that it would automatically direct me to the new post software and put “Talking about <name of site>” on the title with a hyper link on the first line of the body of the post. Now that I have transfered to wordpress, I either get directed to sign into my windows live profile and then get an error message saying that the blog doesn’t exist anymore, or I get redirected to my main page of the wordpress blog, not the window to post a new blog. I can go to the “new post” section myself from the main page, but then I don’t have the automatic hyper link.
When searching the forums i did find the “how to” put a hyper link into a blog post (which is exactly how you do it on any other forum that I’ve ever been on), and also about the blogrolls, but I want to know how I can get the right click menu option to work like it did for Windows Live for WordPress. Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I don’t know about the right-click menu but you can use the “Press this” bookmarklet to blog at the press of a button.
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ok, so I tried to get this bookmarklet, but I can’t seem to be able to click and drag it onto my favorites bar. I’m not seeing any troubleshooting for that either. am I missing something?
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Dragging works with the latest versions of most browsers. If that doesn’t work you could try right-clicking, then copy link address and then add a bookmark manually (in firefox this is through the bookmarks menu)
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Try doing the Cookie Dance first; log out of WP.com, clear browser cache and cookies, restart computer. That might help.
WP does need to improve Press This, though. It can’t hold a candle to Tumblr’s Share on Tumblr button, for instance.
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i’ve tried clearing the cache and cookies of IE. I also tried copying the shortcut as well, but there isn’t a place in my favorites to add link to the pop up window that I get when I actually click on the words “Press This” in my tools section. The only time I was able to click and drag the link was when I went to this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/tag/bookmarklet/ However, when I press that button on my favorites bar it takes me to http://en.support.wordpress.com/press-this/ instead of bringing up the pop up window. :( I like the pop up window, it does what I was looking for from my right click menu that I had with windows live. Why can’t I get it to work? Any other suggestions?
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well I was able to get Press This to work on Chrome, but not IE8. So, atm, it’s either I not use it in IE or I get used to Chrome.
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I am not entirely sure but I THINK I remember them saying something about IE no longer being supported in Press This.
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I just downloaded IE9 and it works in there. So maybe IE8 was just outdated for Press This…..Thanks for all the help
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This information should be clear on the tools page, so that other people don’t waste time on it
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