It’s relatively easy to start a blog with a free online service like WordPress.com or Blogger.
It’s moderately difficult to set-up and start a self-hosted blog on your own server with a WordPress.org install.
It’s difficult to write posts.
No matter how much I try to make it easier by using a word processor or blogging software, the words only hit the page when I use the keyboard. They never magically appear on the screen.
True story.
WordPress.com, however, has just released a new feature for their hosted users called, the Writing Helper.
Writing Helper is a new tool available just underneath the edit box when adding a post. As usual, you can sling it around to wherever you like it.
The first thing Writing Helper helps with is, Copy A Post. This is a streamlined internal copy and paste. Search for a post, much like with the recent link tool update, pick your post, and it will copy the title, content, tags and categories into your new post. Need I explain this awesomeness? I think not.
The next great feature Writing Helper adds is Request Feedback.
You can now share a private draft of a post with a friend before it is published. They can help you find typos, suggest improvements and give advice to make the post amazing before you publish it to the world.
This look so slick.
Click Request Feedback, drop in an email address or two, and the recipients will receive a private link to your draft. They can leave feedback for you, and it will appear in your post’s Request Feedback box when they’re done.
JetPack made its way to dot ORG, and I hope this makes the same migration. This is a great blogging tool to aid in content curation and writing. Anything that makes writing easier and better gets my vote!
[via WordPress.com Blog]
[…] Once again, a few new features and rearrangements has arrived for WordPress.com users. As a dot-ORG user, it’s easy to blow this kind of stuff off, but some of these changes make their way to dot-ORG, so I’m always sure to take notice. Plus, some of the features are really great, and a lot of the time you can go grab a plugin to give you the same feature. […]