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Windows Live Writer happens to be my favorite tool for publishing posts on this blog. I use it everyday and blogging is way more easier with it. If you are a long time Dailyapps reader you might have noticed that a lot of my posts contain considerable number of screenshots of apps and software’s.

I normally use Snagit for all my needs of taking screenshots, but today thanks to Amit Agarwal I found a cool new plugin written by a Microsoft employee Joe Cheng that allows me to take screenshots more easily than ever.

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Well, I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.2.3 to Wordpress 2.3. After Upgrading, Ultimate Tag Warrior no longer works, so I am using the built in Taxonomy system in Wordpress 2.3. Before I could add tags to my posts via Windows Live Writer, my favorite desktop blogging client, but after the Wordpress Upgrade that no longer works.

I went searching around the internet, and found the solution that I was looking for and here the steps that I took to be able to post tags from Windows Live Writer.

First of all, if you are on a self hosted Wordpress Blog, download wlwmanifest.xml from Wordpress Trac. This patch somehow didn’t make it into the 2.3 Release, so hopefully it will in Wordpress 2.3.1. Once you have downloaded the zip, extract the folder and upload it to the root folder of your blog, i.e. the place where the wp-config.php resides.

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