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I made a big move in QtBlogger' develoment.
As I want it to be able to manage all kind of Blog/CMS engines, I'm turning the editor into a completly modular one.

The basic editor can "just" edit a text, but you can add tabs to manage different kind of things : options, images, comments etc

As some engines also have some specific post options, it's now possible to create a class inheriting from Post (or any other API class).... read more

I decided to make QtBlogger more modular than he actually is.
All blog engines are now supported thanks to a new plugin system, each blog engine is handled by a plugin.

This means that in the future, each engine could have his own menus, actions, toolbars etc so that they can be fully managed !

This is a very big step in QtBlogger development and I will be keeping this idea of a fully modular application !

I'm working on making QtBlogger working with the most famous blos/CMS engines.
At this time, QtBlogger supports blogger, metaWeblog and wordpress API.

A Wordpress plugin allows you to manage comments, tags, category, plugins, settings and medias.
I'm actually working on making plugins with the same functionalitiesfor Drupal and Joomla.

I decided not to use Qxt library anymore for handling XmlRpc calls.
In fact the library doesn't apply to some of the XmlRpc specifications so with engines like Joomla it just can't work.

I found a lib which seems to be working good : Maia
More information on the author website http://wiedi.frubar.net/blog/2008/03/08/libmaia-xml-rpc-with-qt4/

So I'm completely rewriting the XmlRpc part of QtBlogger !

As I'm speaking, QtBlogger is at an advanced state of development.
I have added a lot of new features :

- Integrated image search on popular search engines (Google, Bing, Picasa, Flickr) extensible thanks to a plugin system
- Directly add pictures from those engines to your blog or posts
- Wordpress Plugin management
- You can also manage your blog settings
- Add some new features to QtBlogger with a simple plugin system
- First plugin for QtBlogger : Clicky stats
- And so much more... read more

QtBlogger development is constantly progressing !
At this time the following functionalities are fully working :
- Media management
- Posts management
- Pages management

I'm currently adding Categories support, and the next step is Comments management !
After that I will probably be working on Plugins before making a first release of the project !

See you soon for some other news and screen-shots !