Blogware—the software that powers this blog—is a fully functional blogging service which includes the Publisher’s Control Panel where you can manage your blog and posts. In addition to this, you can also use 3rd party blogging software like BlogJet, Ecto, and others to post articles to your blog.

While this flexibility is good, it often causes confusion as to what you can/must do with the Publisher’s Control Panel and what you can do with 3rd party blogging software. To try to clear this up, I whipped up a quick chart which notes most of the common tasks you do with your Blogware blog and what you can do with each tool.

Action/Tool	Publisher's Control Panel	3rd Party Posting Software
Posting an article	Yes	Yes
Editing an article	Yes	Yes†
Creating a photo album	Yes	No
Uploading a photo to an album	Yes	No
Creating a category	Yes	No
Managing users and permissions	Yes	No
Viewing stats	Yes	No

† - Supported by most posting software