If you purchased Black Ink 1, you are entitled to a discounted or free upgrade to Black Ink 2. Purchases made after January 1, 2018, are entitled to a free upgrade, All other Black Ink 1 purchasers are entitled to upgrade at a discounted price of $14.95. If you purchased directly from the Red Sweater […]
In January, 2020, MarsEdit dropped official support for the Blogger.com publishing platform. One of the reasons for dropping support is a change in Google policy that makes it impossible to create new authorizations to Blogger with MarsEdit. Existing MarsEdit customers who have a functioning connection to Blogger may be able to migrate the authentication information […]
If you’ve run out of puzzles to solve in Black Ink, or just want to try another style of puzzle, there are tons of options. Most puzzles are not distributed with a predictable URL pattern that Black Ink can automate the downloading of within the app, but you can still download and open files from […]
If you are self-hosting WordPress on your own Linux server, you need to make sure you have installed the PHP-XML module. Without this module, you may see an error from MarsEdit about a failure to “parse the XML document”. This error comes from your WordPress installation, and typically means it doesn’t have the library support […]
If a script is run with FastScripts that depends upon macOS’s accessibility technologies, you may run into an error from the system stating that FastScripts does not have the required permissions. For example, an attempt to synthesize keystrokes with FastScripts could yield: System Events got an error: FastScripts is not allowed to send keystrokes. The […]
For MarsEdit to work perfectly with your blog, the communication with your blog’s server software needs to work perfectly. If you are experiencing any problems, ranging from a completely failure to connect and refresh your blog, to subtle issues with minor updates to your posts, it may be helpful to capture a network log to […]
Custom fields are a powerful feature of many WordPress blogs. You can add custom fields to support specific behaviors that are not supported by default. You might add custom fields to support plugins that do SEO optimization, associate custom downloadable data with a post, or to control some other feature of a custom theme or […]
As of MarsEdit 4, Flickr integration is no longer officially supported. As Flickr use has become less prevalent, and its future unertain, we did not want to commit to long-term support for the service. With the recent SmugMug acquisition, we may re-evaluate that decision. We did leave existing support for Flickr in the app, so that […]
By default, MarsEdit attempts to download all of the posts (and pages, where pertinent) that are associated with your blog. If you are seeing a smaller number of posts appear in MarsEdit than you expect, here are some troubleshotting steps you can take to solve the problem: Confirm your blog system supports downloading all posts. […]
If you are having trouble connecting to your TypePad.com blog, it may be due to a change in TypePad’s server policy for connections to its API (the interface that apps like MarsEdit connect to). Starting in late 2018, TypePad has apparently started requiring that all connections be made over “HTTPS” the encrypted version of the […]