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I am trying to use service like Word or Scribefire to post information to my drupal 7 site.
but after much googling found out that there is a BLogapi module is being developed but there is no update has anyone tried this and if not is there anyother way that i can do this? pls advise
The Blog API module was part of core in Drupal 6 and got broken out in Drupal 7 (in Drupal 8, the Blog module has also been removed from core). As such, it’s now being maintained as a contrib module and does not seem to have very high priority, although it appears to have some backing from Acquia, which is a good sign. I don’t think there are any other modules which will do this, per se, and unfortunately, in my experience, the Blog API module didn’t do everything that I’d want it to do to take an article live and any images were just thrown into the system/files directory (instead of into sub-directories named after the article, which is what I usually do using IMCE Mkdir and also doesn’t offer support for filling in other fields I consider critical (proper categories, custom fields, meta-tags, etc). In any case, the Drupal 7 version of the Blog API module is being completely rewritten and is not yet ready for real use, though you could help with testing it as the functionality is built up.
I would suggest writing your blog posts in a good standalone HTML editor and saving them (e.g. on your home computer), then copy that content to the body field and customize (upload images and link them in properly, add category tags, metatags, etc.) At least, then, you’ll have a backup of the work in case you accidentally lose what you’ve typed into the body field. And your posts will be better than you’d probably get from using the Blog API (YMMV, but I’ve yet to find a compatible editor which did everything in ways I was fully happy with) If your use case and expectations are simple, though, you might well be happy with this module, but you should probably not expect it to be very useful for a while.