Many of you who are reading us at the moment have your own blog in WordPress or collaborate in different publications. And also most of all of you (I include myself too), we regularly write our posts from the browser of our Mac. However, with the passage of time and the proliferation of applications, there is now a very interesting variety of apps that we allow, from a single place, have direct access to all the blogs in which we write.
This is the main advantage of these applications to publish in WordPress, the unique access to all your blogs, both those that are your own and those in which you collaborate, which provides greater comfort and agility, in addition to consuming fewer resources than Safari or another browser. But in addition, there are a lot of additional advantages that you do not have from the browser.
Improve the experience of posting on your blog with these apps
If you write in a single blog, doing it from Safari or another browser on your Mac may be a good option; but when your contributions increase, things get complicated since every time you change blog you have to access it. You can avoid this with either of the two applications that I will show you below, which, in addition, offer you a very clean, neat and intuitive interface, they adapt perfectly to the size of your Mac screen (or the size you want ) and have features so interesting for many of you such as importing PDF or Word documents, writing without distractions, Markdown, backup copies, synchronization with your iPhone and iPad devices, greater ease of inserting links and images, access to your statistics and much more.
WordPress
I'll start with official WordPress app for Mac. It has not been with us for long, barely a year, but it works really well (without the problems that we sometimes find in its version for iOS). It's totally free and it gives us access to all the blogs in which we participate, either on wordpress.com or with our own hosting.
The WordPress.com desktop application adapts to any size. Do you want a small window on the side to take a look at notifications or do you prefer to have a full screen window for a zen writing experience? You choose.
Another key to the WordPress app for Mac is its speed since, as explained on its own website, it »groups the entire site into a local copy. Pages load almost instantly and the waits are reduced. »
I advise you that before trying any other app, especially the paid ones, try the WordPress app for Mac that you can download free here.
Ulysses
Discuss Ulysses for Mac are big words. Is the application preferred by the greatest experts with incredible performance and a wealth of functions and features that leads professionals like David Hewson, writer, to point out that “The application is amazing. Using it is a delight. Very good job ", while the prestigious magazine MacWord pointed out that" It is hard to remember a better user experience on any platform. "
Ulysses is a complete environment for writing on OS X. It doesn't matter if you are a novelist, journalist, student or blogger: if you like to write, and you write a lot, Ulysses gives you a set of optimized tools that cover every phase of the writing process
Ulysses offers infinite functions including a clean and distraction-free interface, text editor with markup features, writing targets (characters, words, pages, etc.), Split View support, full access with VoiceOver, easy markup to create titles, lists, comments, citations, important passages and much more, easy insertion of links, annotations and footnotes, inserting images by just dragging the file, smart copying and pasting, checking spelling and grammar, automatic correction and dictionary import of DOCX files, Markdown and text, editing text files from external folders, automatic and scheduled backups, export to PDF, DOCX, RTF, TXT, Markdown, HTML and ePub, publishing to WordPress and Medium and much more.
They are not the only applications for writers and bloggers, but that will deserve a second part.