I was thrilled to discover that Performancing (a really slick Firefox extension for rich content editing) works great with Quills. 

"But wait," I hear you asking: "Kupu is so great, why would I need a separate editor for my Plone blog?"

Well, it's true that Kupu is great.  (All hail the glory of Duncan Booth and his many co-contributors!  Long may they prosper!)

But often, when I'm blogging, I want to cut and paste stuff from a bunch of webpages.  What's cool about Performancing is that it shows in the bottom of my browsing window, and I can surf all over creation while writing an entry.  Then I can come back to my blog when I'm done writing.  That's convenient.  And anything that knocks down the barrier to writing makes me more likely to do it.

Performancing also adds in a bunch of useful features that a Plone blogging tool oughta support -- things like burying Technorati tags in your post and pinging services like Ping-O-Matic and PingoAt.

Good stuff, eh? So how do I configure Performancing to write to Quills?  Most simple.

1. Add your blog, then "manually configure" it as a "custom blog" using the "MetaWeblog API."

2. The API URL is just the URL of your blog (in this case http://theploneblog.org/blog)

3. Check "Advanced Settings" then put in the API key that Quills shows you on the main page of your blog when you're logged in.

4. Enter your Plone username and password.

Boom!

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