Just meh

I’ll be honest: I’ve abandoned Mars Edit after several years of using it and have gone back to using my browser to write blog posts. What Mars Edit does, it does well. But it could be so much more. If you’re using a theme that is designed around feature images, you’re out of luck because there’s no way to designate a feature image from the app…a work-around is installing a plugin that makes the first image in your post the feature image by default, but what if you don’t want your feature image to be the first photo, or don’t want photos in your post at all?

There are other problems as well. Why oh why can you not choose a post format type for Wordpress blogs? That alone forced me to go back to blogging from my browser. And why can’t you go back and forth between rich text editing and HTML editing from within the app rather than having to save a draft of your post and closing it out, going into preferences and changing the editing mode to HTML before reopening the post draft if you want to do something simple like drop in a YouTube embed code?

The developers are hamstringing themselves here, because this could be a really, really useful app.

Crockett4379 about MarsEdit - for WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, etc.