One thing all blog platforms have in common is an inbuilt blog editor. From within the editor we can compose and publish our blog posts and while they are functional, most of them are pretty useless when it comes to advanced features.

To counteract the drab of those you have at your disposal a vast range of free or paid blog editors that make writing and publishing posts a breeze, including the insertion and styling of images and videos.

Free blog editors

Qumana is a handy tool since you can use it to insert tags, images, Qumana ads and even videos. You can also write your posts offline and when you connect later to the Internet just hit publish. The application is pretty straight forward and publishing is a breeze. Qumana is available both for Windows and Mac.

Windows Live Writer is my blog editor of choice. It has so many features to make a bloggers life easier that I could dedicate a full blog post just to this application.

As you can see, I made a snap shot of the post I’m writing right now and compared to Qumana the interface is so much more versatile already. Also supports offline post composure and is only available to Windows OS.

Thingamablog is a cross-platform, standalone blogging application that makes authoring and publishing your weblogs almost effortless. Unlike most blogging solutions, Thingamablog does not require a third-party blogging host or a cgi/php enabled web host. It also doesn’t need a MySQL database. In fact, all you need to setup, and manage, a blog with Thingamablog is FTP, SFTP, or network access to a web server.

The application works both on Windows and Mac.

WBloggar has the standard features many popular editors have. But one thing makes this application stand out. They offer a portable solution for bloggers on the move. Their portable solution will make it a breeze to stay mobile by allowing you to unzip it to your pen drive.

To use your current settings and accounts with your portable w.bloggar just use the option “export accounts and settings” from the “File” menu and export the settings.xml file to the Data folder at your portable w.bloggar directory.

I find this a great option for those of you who are often on the road, looking for small low space applications. WBloggar is for Windows only.

This application has some more cool tools like a Windows API that lets you edit posts without being connected to the Internet.

ScribeFire is an addon application for Mozilla Firefox. It allows bloggers to quickly and easily post to their sites while never leaving Firefox.

While browsing sites you can drag and drop formatted text and use them directly from within ScribeFire. A great tool for bloggers who are so dedicated to their browser they never want to leave.

Paid blog editors

Blog Jet is a Windows blog editor that offers similar features as Windows Live Writer. A couple of advanced features are different however, like the Auto Replace. It lets you create a rule to automatically insert links for frequently used keywords.

To be honest, I didn’t see a reason to use a paid editor, when there are so many free o0nes available doing the job just fine.

Rocket Post is a cool tool and I think it is worth the expense. It offers automatic insertion of related posts, tags and instant photo albums at the click of the mouse. There is also a running word count which many of the common blog editors don’t have. Great for writers who get paid per word count.

Rocket Post is only available for Windows and comes in several paid versions suitable for all budgets. There is also a 30 day free version to try before buy.