Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Using Windows Live Writer can screw up your blog’s news feed validation - here’s how to avoid it happening
Really, it can.
I posted this on the FlatPress forum, as that is the blogging software I use - but it most likely applies if you use Windows Live Writer to post to other blogging platforms too (e.g. Wordpress).
If you use Live Writer and the Remote Posting plugin to maintain your blog then (in Live Writer) you need to go into “Tools… Options… Editing” and UN-check all those boxes which say “Replace hyphens…”, “Replace straight quotes…” & “Replace other special characters” otherwise if you use any special characters in your post titles (e.g. three dots “…”) that will get converted to a special character and trip up your feed.
It just happened to me.
