Using w.bloggar for Wordpress blogs

by Lid

If you want a tool that gives you more formatting features and an easier interface, or you just want the ability to write offline, w.bloggar is one of several Weblog clients that Wordpress supports. It is free to use, runs on your machine and uses XML-RPC to post to your blog.

Installing it was a little tricky; here are the steps:

1. Do you already have a blog?

This lets you configure w.bloggar to post to an existing blog, or if you dont have one, w.bloggar will help you set one up.

2. In which tool or service was your blog created?

You need to enter your blog software: mine is wordpress.

It then asks you for an account alias; a name w.bloggar will associate with this particular blog. As it is for your eyes only, call it anything you want. I went the simple route and gave it the name of my blog blogwell.

Step two also lets you set up w.bloggar to ping various sites (let them know) each time you post. EG technorati, bloglog.

3. Account connection settings

This was the tricky one for me, hopefully this configuration info will help you.

The first question is where is your blog hosted.

Mine is - blogwell.wordpress.com

If the blog was on my own Website, for instance www.lidija.com, the host would be www.lidija.com

Then it asks you for the full path to the API endpoint of your blog tool.

Mine is /xmlrpc.php. If you have a blog on wordpress, yours will be the same.

But, if your blog lives on your Website, for instance www.lidija.com/blogwell, the path would then be /blogwell/xmlrpc.php

The default port is set to 80, which you can leave or change for security by clicking the https button; this will automatically change the port to 443.

The next page asks for your login details and you’re done.

Voila!

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10 comments:

chrisholt, 23 April 2007 19:20

Thank you, your info was exactly what I needed!
Lidija Davis, 24 April 2007 14:51

Chris, you are welcome
Vickie, 2 May 2007 7:44

Thank you!! This info was extreamly helpful. Just what I was looking for.
Lidija Davis, 3 May 2007 11:04

oh, it is good to be useful
Thanks Vickie
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That’s exactly what I needed to know. Thanks for making it clear, concise, and usable!
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