Tech Friday: 2 years with MarEdit for blogging has me satisfied
Posted By RichC on February 7, 2025
MarsEdit has been my WordPress blogging software of choice for 2 years now and although there have been a few disappointments since moving from the non-supported Windows Live Writer or Open Live Writer software (both PC only), it has been great to be able to work from my MacBook Air M2 … but more importantly, it is supported and updated by Red Sweater software.
Since I likely use it somewhat differently that most (a couple different image servers), the ability to use macros improves adding content. One disadvantage for those who keep their eye on bandwidth, load speeds and storage (plus backups) of increasingly more and more data, is not automatically including “thumbnails” for images. This isn’t as big a deal today as it was 20 years ago as the overall Internet speed and lower cost data has accommodated bigger files. I generally still resize images and video to smaller sizes … but this isn’t usually noticed in day to day blog reading.
Looking forward, I have been rethinking the how I have always used images on a page … meaning that images are often placed on a post to be read on a computer … not a mobile device. BUT … content is now consumed on phones and tablet more often than on computers … so I may have to adapt image us to full width images rather than including them in a layout (problem in example screenshot above and below the break … and probably this post)?
Old habits die hard, so I’m not sure if it is possible for me to change. 
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