Desktop Blogging Clients for Linux

03 jun 2008

Are you looking for a good desktop based offline blog editing software for Linux. While you cannot run Windows Live Writer on Linux, there are some decent blogging clients for Linux too.

linux blog editors

Praval is looking for a desktop based offline blog editing software for Linux (Ubuntu) – something on the lines of Windows Live Writer. Here are some suggestions from the extremely helpful Twitter community:

1. Scribefire – A hugely popular Firefox extension for blogging that lets you blog from the comfort of your browser. Supports almost every blog platform and is frequently updated.

2. Flock – This Firefox like browser has built-in blogging capabilities. Open the blog editor in the browser, drag-n-drop content from anywhere and publish.

3. Bleezer – This Java based WYSIWYG blog editing software can upload images to your web server and includes a spell checker but the developer has not updated the software since a long time.

4. BloGTK – This is a pretty popular blogging software for Linux that supports Blogger, Movable Type and WordPress but again, no new updates since long.

5. Drivel Journal – Another blog editor for the GNOME desktop though sort of abandoned now.

6. KBlogger – This is a blogging application for the K Destkop Environment. It integrates in KDE Kicker and is also available as a standalone application for KDE 4. Supports Blogger, WordPress, MetaWeblog API, MovableType API, GData API, etc.

You may also consider blogging through Google Docs, imified for IM or even OpenOffice though the Sun Weblog Publisher add-in costs some money.

Thanks Shankar, Sathya, Ravi, Prateek, Devesh and Bonchi for your inputs.

http://cutedge.org Herbert

Wow, I never knew you could publish a blog post through Google Documents. That sounds pretty sweet – I think I’ll have to give it a try one day.
Debjit Saha

I have been using scribefire for publishing to my blog from the firefox and it`s the best available for Linux. Flock is not a reliable client, it breaks the mesaage formatting at times, I mean you see an entirely different text formatting, than the one you may have actually used.
http://www.xhydra.com/uncategorized/google-ethics-vs-freedom-of-information.html Internet Wanderer

Blogging offline is very convenient. Personally I use BloGtk but I will definitely try the other ones in your list.
http://www.technotraits.com Satbir Singh

Windows users can also publish blog posts directly from MS Word 07 using New Blog Post option.
http://msdotnetsupport.blogspot.com Dutt

Thanks for providing all the list of client.
But I am bit worry to expose my blogger gmail id and password when using these type of 3rd party Linux or windows clients other than Windows Live Writer on windows.

Here are list of Windows Blogging clients which I know

Quema
Blogjet
WLW Windows Live writer
Firefox add-ons

Thanks,
Dutt
Microsoft .NET Support
http://www.techzilo.com Sumesh from TechZilo

The unfortunate fact is that no credible blogging client exists for Linux. Perhaps because not many developers are bloggers? ;)

I searched around a bit and also asked a friend(Shankar) when I started using Ubuntu occasionally. He said that the best option is the WP editor. Fair enough, and I use it now (no syncing woes when moving across Win and Ubuntu, or my desktop and laptop).
Avinash Naidu

i have been using flock for many weeks its really good for blogging.
http://binoyxj.blogspot.com Binoy xavier

Wow i was actually i need for blogging from fedora… Thanks for the post.
http://tech.shantanugoel.com Shantanu Goel

The best option I’ve had so far for this is using “blogjet” through wine in linux.
http://joshottley.com Josh

Wow, there seriously isn’t a good blogging software for linux.
I really want a client side option, as I don’t always have time to load up wordpress’s dashboard.
http://www.budiarno.com Budiarno

what if we use an emulator that can run sort of windows apps under linux.. so we can still use WLW eve we’re using linux. is that possible?
http://jamesthedisciple.wordpress.com James

I have used Bleezer, petrus-blogger and jblogeditor. they all use java and can be used from a usb memory stick on any platform having java6 installed. Petrus-blogger is the most up-to-date, but the others are useful too.
There seems to be many people looking for a blogging client, I might just have to team up with someone a help produce a good one (not good enough to do it on my own).
PS. BlogTK is in the process of developing version 2 whichs looks promising

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