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Solution to WordPress MU xmlrpc bug

Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by .

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If you are reading this, you probably landed here looking for a fix that will help you use a desktop client on WP-MU. Well, you are not alone.

My previous post on using Scribefire on WP-MU, certainly was not the most elegant way of solving the xmlrpc problem, but it worked then. When I upgraded to Firefox 3.5.1 and Scribefire 3.4.1, the fix stopped working. I was busy at work and could not sit down to study the problem, so I simply stopped posting to the other blogs I really want to write.

Thankfully, this weekend I could fix the problem. I know now that a fix was available since April ’09, but it perhaps took so long to show up in google or it was just my clumsy googling. Daniel Llewellyn has written this small piece of code which solves this problem elegantly.

To solve the problem (xmlrpc bug) so that you use desktop clients on WP-MU do the following:
1. Download the text file with Daniel’s code
2. Rename the text file as wpmublogger-getusersblogs.php
3. Upload the php file to your WP-MU installation to the mu-plugins folder under the wp-content folder.

Thats it and now you’re now ready to go. When I tested, Scribefire 3.4.1 detected all 7 blogs that were configured to a particular user account.

Thank you, Daniel, for sharing the trick. One small piece of code that solves a bug bothering so many WP-MU users.

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How to : Display mathematical symbols in wordpress

Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by .

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Once upon a time, there was WordStar 4. Then came MS Word and with it came Mathtype, Mathmagic and Equation editor in Word 2007.

None of these gave me the joy that I had when I discovered PHP Math Publisher and WPMATHPUB.

Now my WordPress powered sites can have equations in them for free! :)

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How to : Scribefire on WordPress MU

Posted on 11. Jul, 2009 by .

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Using a blog client software with WordPress MU does seem to be problem. After 30 minutes of googling, I still couldn’t find one thing that provided any conclusive answers.

I’ve always been a Scribefire fan and wanted it to work with WP MU.

The WP MU forums already have this post on how to make Scribefire work.

To date the solution seems to have remained the same. I tested this out on WP MU 2.8.1, Firefox 3.0.11, Scribefire 3.4.1 on a site that does not use wild card subdomains.

These are the steps:

  1. Set-up your WP MU site without wild card subdomains – eg: http://mysite.com/blog1 instead of http://blog1.mysite.com – if you didnt have one already.
  2. In the main domain and in all blogs, enable XML RPC publishing by accessing Settings->Writing.
  3. Install Firefox with the ScribeFire add-on, if you dont have one already.
  4. Now add a new account to ScribeFire, to any of the WordPress.com or WordPress blog not powered by MU. This step should be easy. Close ScribeFire.
  5. Re-open ScribeFire, edit the new account you created in step 4.
  6. Change the blog URL to http://mysite.com/blog1/.
  7. Change API URL to http://mysite.com/blog1/xmlrpc.php
  8. Update Login credentials and Press “OK”.
  9. Ignore the errors given by ScribeFire.
  10. Close ScribeFire.
  11. When you re-open ScribeFire, it has already become this willing work horse.
  12. Repeat steps 4 to 11 to add additional blogs.

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