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#25 2008-01-27 14:58:44

december76

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

You’re probably right. I’m still hoping for an implementation of metaWeblog.newMediaObject, though. Wordpress supports this, right? MarsEdit (the client I’m using) doesn’t come with built in FTP and I would prefer writing to the Txp database while uploading images.

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#26 2008-01-27 15:01:54

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

Yes, implementing metaWeblog.newMediaObject would solve that for MarsEdit. It’s up to wet whether he implements it by storing images in the database or not. On WordPress it implements it by storing the files into a folder of the WordPress installation.

#27 2008-01-29 16:25:27

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

One thing I’ll add here, is supporting RSD will really help for configuration with clients such as MarsEdit:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/gems/tech/rsd.html

Also see:

http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/453/designing-for-the-first-launch

For an example of how this RSD information streamlines client setup.

Daniel

#28 2008-01-29 19:48:01

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

wet wrote:

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.

It’s also working with ecto3.

Unresolved:

• Time zone issues

Still a problem indeed.

Not implemented:

• Media uploads and other goodies.

Would be cool if this could work some time.

#29 2008-01-29 19:50:30

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

Thanks.

As reports from MarsEdit users indicate that all what works for you on ecto and for me on various Windows clients doesn’t work for them: Would you mind trying MarsEdit, too?

#30 2008-01-29 20:05:58

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

Ok here a more detailed report what has worked for me and what not:

ecto:

• Got only posts from the selected section
• I’m not using categories on my blog, but fetching categories was ok.
• post-slug was submitted correctly
• couldn’t make ecto to post in the right time (local) zone, tried dfferent preferences but didn’t work.
• ecto was even transmitting keywords properly but was adding them again and again when editing the post and submitting again.

MarsEdit:

• Got only posts from the selected section
• I’m not using categories on my blog, but fetching categories was ok.
• post-slug was not submitted
• MarsEdit did post in the right time zone :)
• MarsEdit was transmitting keywords properly and didn’t even duplicated them when submitting an edited post. :)

Hope that helps.

#31 2008-01-29 21:26:01

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

mapu: I am curious whether you set it up in MarsEdit with MetaWeblog-compatible, or MovableType for the blog system setting?

If you set it up with MovableType, does the slug work now?

Daniel

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#32 2008-01-29 21:32:29

mapu

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

I set it up with the MovableType-API and it didn’t work.

Surprisingly, the slug works with MetaWeblog… (although TXP recommends in the readme file to use the MovableType API).

So, with MetaWeblog, everything is working fine for me with MarsEdit (haven’t tested categories).

#33 2008-01-30 19:45:16

december76

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

Weird. I have no problem sending a slug to the Txp database, using MarsEdit and the MovebleType API. The rest works for me as well.

#34 2008-01-30 20:06:23

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

mapu

I’m testing ecto and getting a “Received “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only” message from server, which means your server is blocking access.” Did you encounter this before getting ecto to work?

Thanks

Mike

#35 2008-01-30 20:22:09

mapu

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

maverick wrote:

I’m testing ecto and getting a “Received “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only” message from server, which means your server is blocking access.” Did you encounter this before getting ecto to work?

No, haven’t encountered any problem like this.

#36 2008-01-30 22:08:18

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Re: [feedback] How To Win Friends Who Love Desktop Blogging...

Thanks Mapu. Fixed it.

• W/ MarsEdit I could use mysite.com/rpc

• W/ ecto I needed mysite.com/rpc/index.php

Once configured, ecto allows access all sections. MarsEdit requires each section to be added indiviudally added. Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks

Mike