Textpattern Support Forum

Steve, message me next time you are in the IRC channel. I can help out with the rpc stuff. I don’t use any desktop clients, but I’ve spent a decent amount of time with RPC.

maverick wrote:

I’ve viewed its development to be more along the lines of a plugin/mod rather than part of Textpattern, whose author hasn’t continued its development. Am I wrong in thinking that? If not, some of the frustration might be from differing expectations about whose responsibility it is?

When I started using Textpattern, a desktop blogging app would of come in very handy. I remember those first few weeks of awkward Textile usage, it felt foreign, could of used a tour guide. Now, I’m familiar enough with Textile that I can enter a short article in the time it takes me to fire up a desktop blogging app.

Core functionality or plugin? – In the grand scheme of things, being able to hand someone w-bloggar and a userid/password to his/her new site would be priceless.

Core functionality or plugin?

Either way, it’s in the svn, and I’m surprised those few obvious bugs iblastoff collected haven’t been committed yet.

Maybe try the mailing list to shake things up ?

I’ve hopefully fixed any problems mentioned in this thread here and those discussed over there as well, as far as I was able to reproduce the issues mentioned.

Fixed:

• Restrict posts list to a selected section (i.e. blog), do not list every post.
• Use category titles instead of category names for all category-name-based RPC calls, preserve category settings through edits.
• Use post slugs or basenames specified via the wp_slug or mt_basename structure elements.

Unresolved:

• Time zone issues

Not implemented:

• Media uploads and other goodies.

Compatibility:

• Txp 4.0.5+

Tested with Windows Live Writer, Zoundry and to an extent even with w.bloggar.

You can grab an interim copy here [.zip] or here [.tar.gz]. Depending on the feedback, I will eventually add this to the core distribution.

Last edited by wet (2008-01-26 21:12:46)

Textpattern does not support the creation of new categories through XMLRPC, you will have to go through the web interface for that. I haven’t even found any evidence that the creation of categories is specifed by either Metaweblog or MT. Any pointers are welcome.

This is what works for me with Windows Live Writer as a client (which observes the API protocol quite well, I think):

I’ve found yet another bug which affected the comment on/off state and updated the download files ([.zip], [.tar.gz]) with a corrected version of txplib_wrapper.php. I think we might need a little bit of assistance from Red Sweater to pinpoint any issues which do not show up with Live Writer or any other Windows client, as I don’t own a Mac.

If there’s any way for a client to specify custom fields through XMLRPC I’d yet have to find a specification for this. Pointers, anybody?