The only drawback? I couldn’t get Writer working with Ultimate Tag Warrior. Until this evening…

Pascal VanHecke posted an excellent solution to add a custom tag provider to Live Writer’s built-in tag support.

Although he linked to some pre-setup information, you could miss this easily. I wanted to highlight that here.

If you’ve got a recent installation of WordPress with Ultimate Tag Warrior installed, log in to the Admin area and browse to Options, Tags and look for the option that reads Embedded Tags. Tick that box and save your settings. (The option to automatically generate META Keywords looks interesting too – might want to switch that on as well)

So, set this up in advance, follow Pascal’s instructions (and helpful graphics) and get blogging with Windows Live Writer!