I just downloaded the latest build of Flock, and went to configure my blog for posting. But Flock’s handy dandy blog account configurator was hanging while trying to communicate with my WP 2.0 blog. A quick peek at the Flock forums revealed this is a known bug, but no fix was offered.
But… you can trick Flock into letting you manually configure a blog. When adding the account, just give a bogus URL (or, in my case, I tried to configure it with my http://…/server.php file directly. That will fail, and bring up a dialog asking if you want to try again, or cancel and manually configure. Click “Cancel” to continue (of course – I love intuitive dialog boxes…)
You are then given the ability to configure from scratch. I selected the MovableType API, blog id of 1, and provided the full url to my xmlrpc.php file as the access point. Provide your login credentials, and you should be off and running.
The category selector is a bit awkward for me – I’m used to just entering tags as if I’m tagging in del.icio.us, but Flock provides an apparently randomized list of my 200+ categories for me to check off…
If you can read this, that means the config worked, and Flock is now posting to my blog. If you can’t read this, I just had an exercise in typing Dvorak, which would have been filed into /dev/null…
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Hi D’Arcy-
either you forgot to make a link to Flock- or flock didn’t do it…
I learn a lot from your posts- I’d love to see more about tags and how you make all this work the way you do.
Thanks
David – I meant to link to Flock. Must have forgotten to do that before hitting Publish.
http://www.flock.com
Hmm, I tried following your instructions and got nowhere. When I select the Movable Type API it takes me to the next screen, but when I add my blog username and password it gives the usual error message “There was an error detecting your blog settings”
The XML-RPC script is on my hosting, and the username and password are correct.
Any ideas?
Matt – I’m not sure. Something may have changed in the later releases of Flock as well…
i had the same problem as Matt Fletcher?
yes I also had the same problem as Matt Fletcher
Hello guys, I think I solved it in the end. I’ve moved hosting now (to wordpress.com) but I think it was to do with it being a cPanel-driven server. cPanel was blocking access to “xmlrpc.php”. The solution? Simply rename xmlrpc.php it to ANYTHING else, and point Flock to the new filename and you’re good to go!
This is a great tut, thank you. I only recently discovered Flock for good and downloaded it the other day actually. Now I can blog with this cool tool, wow. What next.
I’m interested in trying this, but I’m coming to the party a bit late. Does this still work with the recent updates to WordPress 2.5?