MarsEdit to Quills, quick MetaWeblog workaround

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Adding description to Quills posts via MarsEdit

Just figured this out. I use MarsEdit to post entries to my Quills (on Plone) blog, and I'm not sure why, but theres' no implementation of the description/excerpt field in MarsEdit. OOB, there's no obvious way to include a document description, but I found this by playing around:

  • In the markup pulldown, click on 'Edit...'
  • Click the '+' in the new window to add a new style attribute
  • Give your style a name and put an h2 tag with class="QuillsExcerpt" in the Opening field and a /h2 tag in the Closing field.
  • Wrap your description in these tags. Quills/Plone will read what's in the h2 as your document description (and move the copy to that field in the edit view).