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How to : Scribefire on WordPress MU

Posted on 11. Jul, 2009 by Krishnan in Howto, Web applications, Wordpress

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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Tags: Scribefire