Archive for the 'Blogger' Category

The Future of Blogger and MarsEdit

Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

I have bad news for MarsEdit users who publish to Blogger: Google is shutting down the Picasa Web Albums API, and MarsEdit will no longer be able to upload images to Blogger/Blogspot blogs. I had anticipated being able to switch to the Google Photos API, and put a substantial amount of working into transitioning to […]

MarsEdit 4.0.9: Fix Blogger Images

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018

MarsEdit 4.0.9 is now available for download from the MarsEdit home page and will be available from the Mac App Store after Apple has approved it. In MarsEdit 4.0.8 I made a change for Blogger blogs to help ensure that images are embedded in a way that is compatible with Blogger’s themes. In the process, […]

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 […]