WordPress 2.6 doesn’t support Live Writer out of the box
Submitted by roman on June 23, 2008 – 9:52 amOne Comment
The WordPress developer team tries to secure WordPress. Hence, they deactivated the XML-RPC and the Atom API.
Without these APIs it is not possible to post to your blog using a desktop blogging software like WIndows Live Wiriter.
Thankfully they didn’t delete this API. It can be activated in WordPress Administration (Settings –> Write).
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2.6 leaves the check boxes to “activate” these checked but it still does not work. Have tried unchecking, saving and rechecking still does not work
regretting upgrading.