Much Pain (TM): Writing for WordPress on a Mac

I have always wanted a Mac. There, I said it. I am out of the Mac closet. I had secretly wanted one for years, but could never quite justify buying one. Now I finally have one, and most things work wonderfully. Photoshop? Check. Word? Check. Word and WordPress? Aaargh.

Writing a post for WordPress used to be as easy as writing a document in Microsoft Word. Many people may not know that you could write a post in Word and publish it directly to your WordPress site, without copying and pasting the content into the WordPress editor. It was a convenient workflow, and Word’s graphics features were particularly useful. From image manipulation and SmartArt to charts and graphs, there was a lot to like.

Unfortunately, the blog-publishing feature was not supported in Word for Mac at the time. This was not a bug in the usual sense; Microsoft had made a product decision not to include the feature in that version.

Thanks for nothing… 🙁

So, in short, I am open to suggestions. What do you use to write and publish your WordPress posts on a Mac? And please do not suggest OpenOffice. I am not ready for that conversation.