Jul 04
How to Post to Your WordPress.com Blog with Microsoft Word 2007
Switching this blog’s posting software to Word 2007 has been on my to-do list for a long time, mostly because I thought that it would be tough to do. Luckily, I was wrong; it turns out to be a very simple process. I now like posting from Word so much that I have decided to post the details on how others can do this, too. Here’s the process:
- Open up Microsoft Word 2007
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Note: these instructions will not work with earlier versions of Word.
- Click the Office button, and then click “New”. A “New Document” window will appear.
- Under “Blank and recent,” click “New blog post.”
- In the “Blog” section of the ribbon, click “Manage Accounts.” A “Blog Accounts” window will appear.
- Click the “New” button and then select “WordPress” as your blog provider. Click “Next.”
- In the “Blog Post URL” textbox, enter your blog’s name and then “.wordpress.com” in between “http://” and “/xmlrpc.php.”
- Enter your username and password into the “User Name” and “Password” textboxes.
- Click “OK.”
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Note: Contrary to what the “New Blog Account” window in Word suggests, these steps will not create a WordPress.com account. These steps will only connect your blog to Microsoft Word and tell Word where to put blog posts.
- Close the “Blog Accounts” window.
Word is now set up to post to your blog! Here’s a quick tour:
- To insert a category, click the “Insert Category” button in the “Blog” section of the ribbon. Then, select one of your categories in the drop-down box that appears.
- To publish your post, click the “Publish Button” button in the “Blog” section of the ribbon.
- To save your post as a draft, click the arrow below the “Publish Button” button in the “Blog” section of the ribbon and then click “Publish as Draft”
- In the “Insert” tab of the ribbon, you can add pictures, links, shapes, charts, symbols, and even WordArt.
Have fun using Word 2007 to post to your blog!
Hello,
Have you figured out how to post pics directly from Word 2007 to your blog site? I’d like to insert a picture in my Word 2007 document and then post the document with the picture included to the blog site.
I’m using WordPress on my own server. The URl’s that I’ve used to upload the pictures in the picture options section do not seem to work but the url’s are themselves ok.
Do I use http:// or http://www.blogsite.org neither option seems to work when I complete the picture options section.
I haven’t extensively tested usage of Word 2007 with self-hosted WordPress blogs, so I’m not quite sure yet what to fill that box in with yet. For WordPress.com blogs, the “My blog provider” option works.
I just ran a quick test with Word 2007. Using the “My Blog Provider” option in the “Picture Options” section works with this blog. It uploads images correctly.
Hope this helps!
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Is there a way to use mircosoft word 2007 with a wordpress blog that is run on its own server eg spanglishwebs.com/blog
Would be very helpful
Thanks
Rachel
How do I insert multiple categories into a post using Word 2007? Is it a matter of choosing them one after another? Also, I would like to tag images with alt tags. I did not see how to do this in word.
Thanks for your tutorial. It got me over my brain fart.
I couldn’t connect to my blog from MS Word. I couldn’t figure out why…..
This is why; My wordpress is in a sub folder, but I set it up so you can access index.php in the root folder. Well I forgot about the subfolder. That’s the problem I was having.
I was doing this: “http://” and “/xmlrpc.php.”
I needed to do this: “http://” and “/” sub folder “/xmlrpc.php.”
Thanks!
I’ve been trying to do this for half an hour now and although I know I have got my blog URL, username and password correct it still keeps coming up with Word can not register this account.
Any ideas why or on how to fix it?
Thanks for asking!
If the address of your blog is, you would would enter the following into the “Blog Post URL” textbox mentioned in step 6:
http://spanglishwebs.com/blog/xmlrpc.phpThanks for reading the article and leaving a comment!
First, click the “Insert Category” button and type or select your first category. For each additional category, click the “Insert Category” button again and type in or select your next category.
Adding ALT text is rather confusing. To add an ALT attribute to an image, click on the image to select it. Go into the “Format” tab in the ribbon. Click on the arrow in the bottom right corner of the “Size” section of the ribbon to open the “Size” window. There should be an “Alt Text” tab in that window.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask them!
Jonathan