Dynamic Template for Live Writer

Ok, if you happen to be using Windows Live Writer (and you should be), you really should look at the Dynamic Template plugin by Joe Cheng (thanks Joe!).

I allows several ways that you can automate text or html that you need to use regularly.  For example, we now use posts in WordPress to post the links for the audio of our weekly church ministry fellowships at KCBT.  Every week the html for the links need to be added to a new post for each class pointing to a file name using the class name and the date (i.e. crossover020809.mp3 as part of a href line).

Thanks to Joe’s plugin, now I just go to my Insert options and choose the dynamic template…

Then choose what class I need it for…

Then the following code drops in:

<a href="http://kcbtmedia.org/media/crossover020809.mp3">Download</a>

There’s a lot of potential in this (more if you know what you are doing more than me).  Great short video examples on Joe’s site showing examples & usage.  Worth checking out!!