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Solution to WordPress MU xmlrpc bug

Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by Krishnan in Howto, Wordpress

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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Tags: Scribefire, WP-MU, XMLRPC