(If you haven’t already installed ScribeFire, read these installation instructions.)

Once you’ve installed ScribeFire, you can start using it to quickly and easily update your blog. To open the ScribeFire window in your browser, you can use any of the following methods:

  • Press F8
  • Click on the icon in the status bar:

    ScribeFire Icon

  • Select ScribeFire from the Tools menu:

  • Right-click on the page and select “Blog this page” from the ScribeFire submenu.

    sf-cm.png

  • There is also a ScribeFire toolbar button you can use to open and close ScribeFire. Add it to your toolbar by selecting Customize from the View > Toolbars menu, and then drag the button to your chosen location.

The first time you open ScribeFire, an account wizard will appear to help you connect ScribeFire to your blog. (Here is a list of the blogging services that are compatible with ScribeFire.) Simply fill in the information it asks for, and when you finish, your blog will be listed in the right-hand pane:

To post to your blog, simply type some text in the main editor panel of ScribeFire, give it a title…

…and click the Publish button:

That’s all there is to it! ScribeFire will post the entry to your blog, and it will appear in the list of entries in the right sidebar so that you can edit or delete it later if you want.

Other Features

Other features of ScribeFire allow you to categorize and tag your blog posts, upload images, set the timestamp of your posts, save works-in-progress as notes, post an entry as a draft, share your posts on social websites, and upload files via FTP. For help with these features, see the complete listing of ScribeFire Help topics.


If you’re a fan of ScribeFire and would like to promote it on your website, you can embed the widget below on your blog by clicking on the “Embed this Widget” link.

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69 Responses to “Getting Started With ScribeFire”

  1. 1
    Teste ScribeFire « a blog about nothing at all…

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  2. 2
    aldi

    Thanks…keep working dude !!!

  3. 3
    ivan walsh

    Thanks guys. This is much better than the Facebook plugin. The Account Wizard is also much better and easier to use. Another reason to stick with Wordpress.

    Thanks

    Ivan

  4. 4
    Trying out ScribeFire

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    Patsy

    looking forward to using just updated my firefox..ready to go

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    best1-web

    thank’s 4 yr add on

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    Joey Cagle

    Hey, I just re-installed my OS, and re-installed my Scribefire.

    I’m trying to set up my Xanga in Scribefire, and I get this after entering the username and password

    Error: No service was chosen.

    It never even asked me for a service. Can anyone help?

  8. 8
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    ken

    Best thing that happened after firefox and blogging !

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    Joey Cagle

    I see no one seems to care to help?

  12. 12
    Aaron Holden

    What about a ‘what im listening to’ addition to this add-on

  13. 13
    Pocketchalker

    Joey….Did you find an answer?

    Pocket

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    Coleen Friedrich

    I am new to this program and not at all familiar on how to use it. I wanted to enhance my website. I don’t have a blog at this time and don’t know how to create on. Can you give me some direction?

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    Jeremy

    Looks really cool! Just heard about it from Dan Theis so thought will give it a try. Thanks!

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    vikram

    nice one dude..hve not tried it will try and post the feedback soon

  20. 20
    Dina

    I just installed this. WOW!!!! A wonderful tool. Thank you for all the great effort!

  21. 21
    jvalerio

    Ligth, smart, nice plugin guys !!!!! Well done !

  22. 22
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    Gas Station Dave

    Awesome! ScribeFire is exactly what I was looking for!!!! Awesome!

  24. 24
    Ed The Dev .com » Blog Archive » ScribeFire for Firefox!

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  25. 25
    Kamen Rider

    Great add-on. Useful for bloggers like me.

  26. 26
    Drof

    When I publish from Scribefire it does not publish on blog but rather gets a “scheduled” label. Even if I set it to publish at a certain time it still says scheduled.

    ???
    Thanks

  27. 27
    David

    Hi,
    It’s not entirely clear whether or not I can post to draft, or if it goes straight on the blog…I’m a bit nervous posting without seeing it in the real environment first…comment?
    David

  28. 28
    pregnancy

    thank you so much for your great job! I know scribefire from one of my friend and I totally fell in love with it, Big thanks to the team :)

  29. 29
    Terry

    Looks great! Anything that helps me generate more content is appreciated.

  30. 30
    Valeriec

    This is a FANTASTIC plugin! I can’t tell you how much easier you’ve made my life!

  31. 31
    Karen Rhodes

    What a wonderful tool! It worked perfectly. Thanks so much!

  32. 32
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  33. 33
    Hyun

    YES! Awesome, thanks a bunch! I love ScribeFire.

  34. 34
    Andrei

    Thanks.. cool plugin!

  35. 35
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  36. 36
    Doska

    Hey Dude, Scribefire Was Missing on my Laptop PC

  37. 37
    Mike

    The Save As Draft feature doesn’t work with a self-hosted Wordpress?

  38. 38
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    K N Bansal

    i will try now then place comments

  40. 40
    Christian

    I can`t insert image.

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    Tech Geek

    This is the best of the best. I love it. It makes posting easy.

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    20 Simple Productivity Tools for Bloggers « Internet Marketing KB

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  49. 49
    Santhoshkumar

    It’s a great addon. Makes my life easy. Thanks dude!

  50. 50
    Ilham1st

    Thanks very much…. It help to write quickly to my blog :)

  51. 51
    Carlo/Carlo At Your Service Productions

    Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, here come you guys with this great Firefox add on. What can I say, except… fantastic! Thank you for making my life (and the lives of others) a little easier.

  52. 52
    willyharbs

    Is there a image grab like dash blog has?
    what is the fastest way to post an online image to your blog?
    thanks

  53. 53
    Mistful~

    I like the features of this add-on. I haven’t tried it out yet but I sure hope it will work smoothly with no errors at all. Here’s me saying congratulations to the team and I hope for the best.

    God bless everyone. ~ =]

  54. 54
    hanan

    It’s a great addon. Makes my life easy. Thanks dude

  55. 55
    Aslam

    Looks great! Anything that helps me generate more content is appreciated.

  56. 56
    Faizul

    this is the best blg editor ever…..!!!!!!

  57. 57
    John Occhi

    I am part of the ActiveRain group of bloggers. Brad Andershon, a staff member published a review of your program here:

    http://activerain.com/blogsview/1353230/how-to-use-scribefire-to-enhance-your-activerain-blog-posts

    You guys should get together so that your platform will communicate directly with ActiveRain. There are currently close to 170,000 Active Bloggers – a blog platform for the Real Estate industry.

    Thanks,

    John

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    askop

    Thank you!It’s a great addon…

  61. 61
    starchim01

    Nice program.

  62. 62
    aii

    national characters utf-8 are posted to livejournal fine, but failed to be loaded back – neither into history nor into editor. thanks

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    Mac

    Is there or how difficult is it, to be able to post to several blogs simultaneously without coming out of one and then choosing another?
    And, how difficult is it to get script modified to be able to add another step in the Blog creation process. I want to load a blog and allocate a group name for it and then when i post, i can choose a group and then hit post and the psot goes to the blogs within that group in one go?
    Thanks

  66. 66
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    mangmemed

    Great plug-in!

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    inaz

    thanku guys .
    was looking for this kind of add on.
    keep up the good work.
    :)

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