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Why can’t I upload images to my blog?

How do I choose default settings for allowing comments, text filters, etc.?

How do I edit the published date and time of a post?

Can I use MarsEdit to publish a blog on my general-purpose site?

Why can’t I upload images to my blog? It doesn’t appear in the popup list of blogs.

Not all blog systems support image uploading. If yours doesn’t, you might consider establishing a free blog at a site like Blogger or Wordpress, where image uploads are well-supported.

Tumblr supports image uploads only in "Photo" type posts. Unfortunately the service does not support uploading images to be inserted into regular "Text" type posts.

Note for MetaWeblog-compatible blogs: to support image uploading, your blog’s API must support the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method. Most blogs implement this method correctly, but a few do not.

How do I choose default settings for allowing comments, text filters, etc.?

MarsEdit supports default settings for many options, so you don’t have to set them every time you create a new post. See Setting Default Options For New Posts.

How do I edit the published date and time of a post?

Choose Post > Edit Date…

Can I use MarsEdit to publish a blog on my general-purpose site?

MarsEdit relies on other software (such as Blogger, WordPress, Movable Type, etc.) to create your blog. It does not generate or organize the HTML required for a blog, so it can’t be used to easily edit blogs directly on a site without blog-hosting software installed.