Archive for the 'MarsEdit' Category

MarsEdit 4 Is Here

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Big news today: MarsEdit 4 is out of beta and available for download from the MarsEdit home page and the Mac App Store. This marks the end of a long development period spanning seven years, so it’s a great personal relief to me to finally release it. I hope you enjoy it. MarsEdit 4 brings […]

WPEngine Authentication Issues

Thursday, August 24th, 2017

Over the past few months I’ve received a handful of support inquiries from MarsEdit customers who have trouble logging into their WPEngine-hosted WordPress blog, after initially typing the wrong username or password into MarsEdit’s authentication panel. Normally when MarsEdit tries to connect to a blog, it reacts to authentication failures by putting up a simple […]

MarsEdit 4 Public Beta

Wednesday, June 28th, 2017

It’s been over 7 years since MarsEdit 3 was released. Typically I would like to maintain a schedule of releasing major upgrades every two to three years. This time, a variety of unexpected challenges led to a longer and longer delay. The good news? MarsEdit 4 is finally shaping up. I plan to release the […]

Blogger’s Obfuscated IDs

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

For years, MarsEdit was not able to upload directly to Google’s Blogger service. Instead, it had to upload to Google’s sibling service: Picasa Web Albums. Recently, Picasa has been folded into Google Photos, and in the course of the transition, Google has forbidden apps such as MarsEdit from creating albums on the service. This left […]