Serious flaws in this app

REVIEW UPDATED: Sept 2015

When I stumbled across Blogo I was in search of an offline Wordpress blogging application for my Mac. I had 3 major requirements:

1. The tool needed to have great integration with Wordpress
2. The tool needed to have full functionality offline
3. The tool needed to be able to synchronize well

Some nice to haves included:

- Being able to drag and drop photos
- Being able to easily align text around photos

Here are some of the issues with the trial version from Sept 2015 (I’ll retest these in this updated Mac App Store version):

- When working on a blog post, the tool often “refreshes” your draft to the last saved version on the online blog. This results in overwriting my current draft with an older version, which wastes much time and effort. I finally stopped using the trial because I got tired of losing work.
- You can’t undo a set of changes. If I accidentally edit a blog post draft, it stays in that edited mode and I can’t easily revert back to the current online version.
- I can’t synchronize my drafts to Evernote. Although the option is there, I continuously get error messages when I try to do this.
- Text cannot be right-justified. In addition, Blogo left-justifies all right-justified text in a previously published blog post. This drove me crazy. I changed some tags on some old posts and after publishing the changes, realized that all of my text was improperly left-justified. I now have to go back into each blog post in online Wordpress to go correct these issues.
- There are issues when copying and pasting bullet points. For instance, I tried to copy and paste a set of bullet points from Evernote. I highlighted the section to replace in Blogo and then pasted the new bullets in. Instead of replacing those bullet points, the paste resulted in pasting a copy under the original text. It took awhile to fix the formatting, etc. to get it right.
- You cannot change the color of text.
- The number of synchronized pages is incorrect. I am showing a page in Blogo that does not truly exist in Wordpress. It won’t come off my list in Blogo.

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