There is a catch: if you use plugins that require a hands-on approach at the time of creating, that’s simple to do. Simply write your post offline using WLW, publish it, then, in WLW, pull it up in the WP editor, add any coding (i.e., keywords or whatever you need to, based on those plugins), and save the post. Voila! No one knows WLW was used and everything looks identical.

WLW is NOT a replacement for WP. It is a writing platform only. It is not intended to replace WP in any way. WP requires so many plugins to make up for things no included in the WordPress core, some of which should be in the core, other stuff is merely supplemental. That’s another reason why WLW doesn’t need tons of plugins, though there are around 100 or so plugins available, allowing you to do all sorts of cool tricks.