Today I did some cleaning on my laptop; removing old unused programs and updating/installing new programs. When I installed the newest Windows Live package I got the Windows Live Writer and thought that I would give it a try.

It was very easy to get started, just run the program, type the url to your blog and provide your username and password. I needed to do one change in my blog settings and that was to enable XML-RPC for remote publishing. You find this option under Tools –> Writing

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Displaying pingbacks to your post is a good thing because your readers often will find interesting and value added information in the post that links to your post. What I don’t like is when pingbacks get mixed with the comments to your post, I find that messy. Therefore I decided to separate the pingbacks from my comments and in this post I will show you how I did it.

I guess that some Wordpress themes already have this functionality, but mine did not so I decided to implement this by my self.

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It is always a good thing to have as many readers as possible on your blog. To increase the number of readers it is important to make it easy for them to both follow your blog posts and share your posts on social networks.

I will show you how you very easy can add icons with links for rss feed, twitter, delicious, stumbleupon, technorati and digg.

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