Wilde – a mac app to manage wordpress publishing

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Wilde promises to be an alternative that desktop based and that’s the app I’m writing the current post with.

First impressions – the interface seems straight forward enough. On the left I have options for posts, drafts and pages as well as scheduled content. I can add new local or remote drafts.  In the middle is where I add the text content and lay everything out, while the right side has a media browser which should make adding images easy, I’m doing that now with this screen capture:

Hmm. Well that was relatively painless. I think an improvement over the web based media handler, although there was more of a delay than I’d like before it showed up. Looks like it wants to fully upload the image before it shows up in the media browser.

Another frustration: I keep having to scroll this window up to type. The window will not auto scroll with my typing and I can’t scroll up past the bottom of the entered text.

Oh, that is really frustrating. As a work around I’ve just added a whole bunch of blank line returns so I have some working space without having to manually scroll up after each line with the mouse.  This seems like a bug and one that I imagine would not that difficult to fix.

I’m going to continue to use Wilde to see if if works for me – beyond the previously mentioned issue it seems well laid out and effective.  The next post I write will be published using Wilde as well, probably using the scheduled post feature.  If I don’t come back to edit this post it’s all gone smoothly.

If you work with wordpress you can find your own copy of Wilde at theescapers.com.

EDIT 1: Looks like the paragraph spacing I see in WYSIWYG mode is not published, I’m adding double line returns to see if that works.  I like that you can drag and drop featured images on posts.

EDIT 2: Hmm. I can’t find an easy way to publish this edited version of the post.

EDIT 3: Ah. Switch to live preview and hit save.  Looks like there are a few rough edges to this app in terms of my work flow but worth exploring further.

EDIT 4: Alright, one last frustration. In order to get the paragraph spacing I wanted I had to go into the HTML and remove div code around each paragraph. I suspect this is a problem between my site template and the way Wilde generates post code.