I'm farily new with Umbraco and I'm working on customizing the Blog StarterKit (is this a version of blog4umbraco? They seem extremly similar). Now I'm trying to hook up Windows Live Writer (WLW) to it all and everything seems to work just fine, except one thing regarding tags.

Versions:
Umbraco 4.7.2 using SQLServerCE 4. I've tried both the Blog Starterkit and blog4Umbraco.

Symptoms:
When creating a post with WLW which includes tags, all tags are added nicely but they cannot be filtered using tags!

Analysis:
Seems all posts end up in a database table called cmsContentXML. In the XML stored in this table, there is an element called <tags>. When creating a regular blog post using the Umbraco UI, the <tags>-element is populated with the selected tags. When creating a post using WLW the <tags>-element is empty. It seems like the XSLT-script umbBlogListPosts uses this element for filtering.

One work-around is just to manually republish the WLW-posts from Umbraco, then the <tags>-element is populated. I'm looking into if I can alter the script to call tagsLib:getTagsFromNode() instead. On the other hand, I'm not an XSLT expert.

I've tried uBlogsy too, but it doesn't do WLW well. Tags doesn't work at all.

Any other suggestions or comments?