Using Windows Live Writer with WordPress and XML-RPC Services

My writer of choice is Windows Live Writer Blog.  The main reason I like it is that it supports the pasting of Screen Caps and other images very effectively.  I use a lot of screen shots in my posts, and not having to save every one as a file, and having WLW do this for me is great.  I recently moves Stuff I Geek With to my own server and wanted to continue using it.  When I tried to connect I got the following error message.

XML-RPC Error

This is the link that walked me through the process described below.  The image can be misleading as it tells you to enable the services at http://stuffigeekwith.com/StuffIGeekWith/wp-admin/options-writing.php but in more recent versions of Wordpress this can be done with a simple checkbox.  MK has taken care of the walkthrough, but I thought I would post a screenshot of where the setting is.

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This worked instantly and I wrote this post using WLW.

-J

October 17, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized

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