Windows Live Writer Wordpress and the XMLRPC Issue
Sometimes when you try to set up a new blog account with the Windows Live Writer the installation process might be interrupted by an error message:
Invalid Server Response - The response to the blogger.getUsersBlogs method received from the weblog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server.
Unfortunately there is more than one reason [...]
Serendipity and Windows Live Writer
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 [...]
Problem: Server Error -32700 Occured
There was a dangerous problem brought up on Windows Live Writer MSN Group.
Problem:
When you try to publish a post to your blog you are getting this error: “An unexpected error has occured while attempting to log in: Blog Server Error Server Error -32700 Occured parse error. not well formed”
Solution:
This Problem occures when you use wordpress [...]
Tagging with Wordpress – tagging console not available
The latest release of the Windows Live Writer 2008 supports tagging with Wordpress 2.3.1. Tobbi explained it in this post.
In some cases, the tagging console is not available, even with Wordpress 2.3.1. To solve this problem you have to add a simple code line between <head> and </head> in your Wordpress theme.
<link rel=”wlwmanifest” type=”application/wlwmanifest+xml” href=”http://www.domain.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml” [...]
WordPress 2.3.1 supports Live Writer Tagging-System
The topical version 2.3.1 of WordPress support the tagging-system of Live Writer.
We’ll show in the following how the tagging-system works with WordPress
After you have written an article open the footer-menu (”Categories” etc)
You can type in your tags below the headline “Keywords”
A View into the control panel of WordPress will show you that WordPress accept the keywords you have [...]
Wordpress loves the Windows Live Writer
Matt from Wordpress.com about the Windows Live Writer:
It’s a little known fact, but deep within the labyrinths of Microsoft there is a team of rogue ninjas making a fantastic Windows blogging client.
If you compare the capabilities of the last Windows Live Writer release and Wordpress 2.1 with the new Windows Live Writer and Wordpress 2.2 [...]
Windows Live Writer - capabilities
This list shows the functions which the Windows Live Writer supports.
Name
Wordpress 2.1
WordPress 2.2+
dasBlog 1.9.7
BlogEngine 1.0.0.0
BlogEngine 1.1.0.5
Windows Live Spaces
Client Type
MovableType
WordPress
Metaweblog
Windows LiveSpaces
Post Draft to Server
X
X
X
X
X
X
File Upload
X
X
X
X
X
X
Extended Entries
X
X
Custom Publish Date
X
X
X
X
X
X
Categories
X
X
X
X
X
X
Categories Inline
X
X
X
X
X
Multiple Categories
X
X
X
X
X
Hierarchical Categories
X
New Categories
X
X
X
New Categories Inline
X
X
Keywords
X
X
Comment Policy
X
X
Trackback Policy
X
X
Author
X
Slug
X
Password
X
Excerpt
X
X
Send Trackbacks
X
X
Pages
X
Pages Parent
X
Page Order
X
HTML Titles
Windows Live Writer vs. Wordpress
If you are using Wordpress and Windows Live Writer together and you are having problems, maybe these solutions from Wordpress.org can help you.
Image uploading fails
Posting fails for some blogs that don’t use UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, or US-ASCII encodings
Bad Behavior plugin doesn’t like Windows Live Writer
Invalid response from blogger.getUsersBlog
Non-ASCII characters render incorrectly on UTF-8 encoded blogs
ArgumentOutOfRangeException [...]
Wordpress: ArgumentOutOfRangeException while attempting to open posts from WordPress blogs
Description: Attempting to open posts in Writer results in ArgumentOutOfRangeException.
Reason and Solution: A bug in Writer causes blog post parsing to fail when the post contains pre, script, and/or style tags. This will be fixed in the next version of Writer. In the meantime, Andrew Grant has posted a workaround:
http://www.andrewgrant.org/2007/06/04/windows-live-writer-argumentoutofrangeexception.html
Wordpress: Non-ASCII characters render incorrectly on UTF-8 encoded blogs
Description: On WordPress 2.1+ and PHP versions older than 5.0.2, publishing posts using Writer results in non-ASCII characters showing up as either squares or question marks.
Reason and Solution: Writer erroneously prepends the UTF-8 Byte Order Mark to XML-RPC requests that are UTF-8 encoded. This prevents WordPress from correctly detecting the UTF-8 encoding declaration, so ISO-8859-1 [...]
