Enable Remote Publishing with WordPress
Have you ever wanted more control over the formatting of a blog post? You can accomplish this by using applications like Word, Windows Live Writer, and others. However before you can use any of these applications to publish to WordPress you will need to enable remote publishing using XML-RPC within WordPress. The how-to below will show you how to enable remote publishing so that you can publish using Word or Windows Live Writer.
Don’t know what XML-RPC and Remote Publishing is?
XML-RPC Protocol – It’s a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet. It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned. Via XML-RPC website.
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1. Go to your blog’s Admin page http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin and log in.
2. Click on Settings in the Navigation Menu.
3. Click on the Writing link.
4. Scroll down the page until you find Remote Publishing and click on Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog, and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.
Once you save the changes you will be able to remotely publish blog posts using programs like Word 2010, Windows Live Writer, and other blogging applications.
Hi There
I’d like to be able to remote publish but I’ve heard there are security issues with Windows Live Writer? Have you any knowledge or opinion on this?
Steve,
I can’t say I have an opinion because I’m not familiar with these issues (I’ve heard of them) but have not really read up on it. I know that for a fact I publish close to 50 posts/month using Live Writer. I know of other great bloggers out there who use this program as well. To make sure your WordPress installation is secure check out this guide:
http://maketecheasier.com/11-ways-to-secure-your-wordpress-blog/2008/08/12