So I’m loving working with Wordpress on the new website, and was genuinely excited to discover that Windows Live Writer integrates perfectly for offline blogging. Love it. Now I can rabbit on to my hearts content without having to work within the Wordpress admin screens. Don’t get me wrong, they’re all very lovely admin screens, but who really wants to have to get online and logon just to write a post, hey?

So anyway there’s a great feature in LiveWriter where it will download your Wordpress theme so that when you’re writing your offline post, you actually have a WYSIWYG view of your own theme – ie: what the post will actually look like. Yehaa, I says. Except it didn’t work. To be precise, the error message reads…

The theme used for editing your blog posts could not be downloaded. You will be able to post to this blog, but the editor will not use your blog’s theme.

Very annoying. But after some quick googling, I worked out that this error was appearing because by site has a static page set as it’s homepage, and LiveWriter wasn’t smart enough to find my /blog. So I removed the static homepage setting, ran the theme detection in LiveWriter again, and hey presto, it worked. Set the static homepage back on, and good to go.