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Adding tags to post in WordPress using Windows Live Writer

Posted on December 30th, 2007 in blogging, software, tricks, tutorials by Ankit Duseja

Windows Live writer one of the popular offline blogging tools is just getting better & better everyday. However, if you have a WordPress self-hosted blog, you may face problem while specifying tags for your post. Posting categories with a post is easy but when you try to provide some tags with it, you get confused.

WordPress recently started support for tag which Windows Live Write adopted very quickly.

So all you have to do is to just update your copy of WordPress to the latest version. Here ia the complete way of making your Windows Live Writer support tag for your WordPress.

  1. Download & update your WordPress to the latest version available. (Must be 2.3.1 or higher)
  2. After your WordPress is updated, open windows live writer. Go to your weblog settings & update your template style.
  3. Now you will see a field name as “Keywords” in the more section.
  4. Enter your tags there (separate multiple tags with commas: cats, pet food, dogs).


Mostly people get confused with tags option in th right bar of Windows Live Writer. But that right column tag section is made for other service like blogger tags, technorati tags, etc.

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