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 [...]
Wordpress: Invalid response from blogger.getUsersBlog
Description: On blogs running PHP 5.2.2, trying to configure the blog in Writer gives the following error: Invalid Server Response - The response to the blogger.getUsersBlog method received from the weblog server was invalid. / Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server (Also affects Writer Beta 1.)
Reason and Solution: A bug in PHP 5.2.2 causes [...]
Wordpress: Bad Behavior plugin doesn’t like Windows Live Writer
Description: Blogs with the Bad Behavior plugin installed cannot be used with Windows Live Writer. Attempting to add the blog to Windows Live Writer results in a “403 (Forbidden)” error dialog.
Reason and Solution: See this blog post by James McKay for a workaround: http://www.jamesmckay.net/2007/06/bad-behavior-does-not-like-windows-live-writer
Wordpress: Posting fails for some blogs that don’t use UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, or US-ASCII encodings
Description: Weblog is configured to use non-UTF-8 encoding. Attempt to post results in error message “Blog Server Error. Parse error. Not well formed”. Posts from the web UI are fine.
Reason and Solution: PHP’s XML parser does not support encodings besides UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and US-ASCII. You must use one of these encodings. After changing the setting [...]
Wordpress: Image uploading fails
Description: When attempting to publish a post that contains images, you get a dialog that starts with “The following images cannot be published because the weblog does not support image publishing.” (Also affects Writer Beta 1.)
Reason and Solution: Very large XML-RPC requests (such as image uploads) that don’t contain line breaks get truncated by the [...]
