

If I could give this program 10 stars, I would. In my work as a freelancer, time is money, and this program is literally going to save me hundreds of dollars a week in time saved.Īfter editing in my posts in my browser or external text editors, I feel with this program that I just left the 1990s and entered the 21st century. So, this program is TOTALLY worth the $30 I just paid for it.heck, it just paid for itself in the first half hour of use. I love the little bookmarklet that allows me to grab anything in my browser and send it to MarsEdit to turn it into a post.I could go on and on, as you can tell. I love the preview mode, I love that I can insert images and see how they work (and the images are loaded to WordPress at the same time), I love that I can now do all kinds of HTML markup of my text with simple pull-down menus and no have to remember them or look them up, I love that I can save drafts and store them locally, and send my drafts to drafts to WordPress as either a post or draft. The program is so easy to use and has so many features that speed up post creation that I was able to create a new post in about 1/2 the time it took me before - and this on my very first time using MarsEdit. OMIGOD, this program is *heaven* after editing in my browser, or editing in an external text editor and then pasting into the browser. And then I happened to see someplace on the web mention MarsEdit.I think it was Daring Fireball. So, I'd been creating my WordPress posts in my browser for a few weeks (having just started out) and it's pretty slow and clunky. But most importantly: It costs less than 10 coffees (I average two at my coffee shop, so I spend more in a week on coffee than I have spent on ME in eternity), for crying out loud! Is that really expensive? Admittedly, my coffee is - but then I'm prepared to pay for that as well. You get personal support from the Author, which I find very appealing.

Personally, I find the price for ME to be well justifiable.
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Guess why there aren't better offline WP editors available for less available on the Mac. Shut up, make a better product, and offer it for less. Then comment on the features, but do not say it should be cheaper. Purchase because you DO find the value proposition justifiable. Fair, but please do not comment on the software's features. Don't purchase because the value isn't right for you.
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I know that in the age of the App Store where the ongoing race to the bottom kills software fast it has become fashionable call software that cost more than $1 'expensive'.īut seriously, you as the customer have three options: To those who think that ME's price is 'too expensive': Please reconsider. Having that (or a template that is close enough) would really be the icing on the cake. Not everyone is able to extract HTML formatting from WP's templates and transfer them to ME. There are some minor quibbles or features that I wish ME would implement to make my experience even more pleasant (chiefly amongst them being able to select between templates for common wp templates like 'twenty-eleven'. A personal preference, for sure, but still. In a direct comparison with on-line editing from within WP I found that I prefer to edit my text in ME, and then upload. I don't know why, but that's simply where I write best. Offline editing is important to me because I compose most of my articles on my *ooooold* laptop, being on the road, between meetings, or (usually) sitting in a quaint, but lovely Coffee Shop without internet access. During sync, articles (and static pages) that I wrote on-line are synced back to ME. Since you can do much of that from within WP itself, the killer feature of ME is being able to create articles off-line and later synch them to your Blog. I like the ability to switch between HTML and Rich Text editing (I am *not* the world's greatest HTML buff), and seeing the results in the preview window updating live is a great help.
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In the context of your blog, ME allows you to create and update articles as well as stand-alone pages.

I'm only using it for Wordpress (self-hosted) blogs, so I cannot comment on how well it integrates with other blogs. Mars Edit is a capable, yet simple-to-use editor for Wordpress (and other) based blogs.
