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Serendipity and Windows Live Writer

Submitted by Stephan Walcher on May 29, 2008 – 9:57 pmNo Comment

The number of blog software which supports the Windows Live Writer is increasing by another blog software, Serendipity. First you need the XML-RPC plugin. Unfortunately the Windows Live Writer doesn’t detect Serendipity even after you install the plugin, so you have to do it manually.

Add a new blog or if it is the first blog you are adding the window will appear automatically.

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Select "Another weblog service"

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Enter the url to your weblog, your username and the password

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The Windows Live Writer tries now to detect your blog software

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Unfortunately it doesn’t detect Serendipity automatically. You have to do it by yourself.

Choose "Movable Type API" as weblog type

In the field below enter http://{full path to Serendipity}/serendipity_xmlrpc.php where you have to enter the url to you weblog without the { }

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Finish

Note: If you don’t want to setup an ftp connection and use the Windows Live Writer to upload the photos, just create a folder "WindowsLiveWriter" inside the folder "upload" and give it write rights (666).

via s9y.org and suntsu.ch

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