Getting Live Writer to play nicely with Drupal

Sat, 19/01/2008 - 11:21am — jethro

Getting Live Writer to play nicely with Drupal wasn't as easy as it seemed. When following the default setup all I was able to do was get the blog to connect. That meant I couldn't create other types of content (images, polls, pages etc) from Live Writer. I use the page content type for my non blog related posts, as I have family and friends etc who only want to read the personal blog entries and don't want all the technical guff I stick on here appearing in their RSS readers.

After a bit of Googling I found this comment on the Drupal website

Here are my revised instructions:

1. enable the blog module and the blog api module
2. enable the 'edit own blog' permission for the user role that is being used to post (Administer › User management › Access Control)
3. enable the 'article' content type for the blog api (Administer › Site Configuration › Blog APIs)

I followed these instructions, and then added these additional details:
do points 1 2 and 3 above. In 3 - enable other required content types - eg image, poll, story, page etc.
In live writer you will need to create a weblog account for each content type

so use these settings to do that.
Create new weblog account
enter your site url/xmlrpc.php and your user name and password
select wordpress and make sure the url path is http://www.yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php
select the content type for this weblog account
allow live writer to configure itself

repeat for each content type

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Sun, 20/01/2008 - 10:53am — Jason - GorillaSushi (not verified)

Ever tried Fckeditor? It

Ever tried Fckeditor? It integrates into Drupal and has most of the same functionality as Live Writer or ScribeFire.

Go Drupal!

Sun, 20/01/2008 - 10:56am — Jason - GorillaSushi (not verified)

Oh - the url for the

Oh - the url for the Fckeditor demo is fckeditor.net/demo

Tue, 22/01/2008 - 9:49am — jethro

thanks Jason Yeah fckeditor

thanks Jason
Yeah fckeditor is pretty cool, as is tinymce. However they only work inside the blogging application as text editors on the site. Live Writer, and Airpress for MAC work as stand a lone applications that you can blog from and send the result to your blog without even opening a browser.

Wed, 18/05/2011 - 3:41pm — altonkenworthy (not verified)

hey its really very true as

hey its really very true as this task wasn't as easy as it seemed. I don't have any knowledge about this fckeditor but thanks for let me know about it. Its really very nice one. Anyways thanks for sharing about Drupal Live writer.

Sun, 01/11/2009 - 6:59am — evden eve nakliyat (not verified)

Thanks, for the good articles

Thanks, for the good articles evden eve nakliyat...I am very intirested..

Thu, 14/01/2010 - 5:31am — daniell (not verified)

Thanks for the tips, I

Thanks for the tips, I haven't used live writer before, I always going with manual updates to put content on blogs. I want to try the software but before I do that I need a guarantee that it won't cause me any troubles, I wouldn't enjoy losing an article because of it.
Daniel Manson

Thu, 14/01/2010 - 9:29am — jethro

Daniel It certainly wont lose

Daniel
It certainly wont lose any of your articles for you - though you can download current articles and edit them.
the setup notes in here are slightly out of date - but the same general principle applies. use the wordpress site option for emulation when setting up.
Cheers

Fri, 05/03/2010 - 9:51am — evden eve nakliyat (not verified)

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Mon, 19/04/2010 - 3:06pm — JD Leonard (not verified)

FYI, I've written up a

FYI, I've written up a detailed guide to Setting up Drupal 6 to Work Really Well with Windows Live Writer: http://jdleonard.net/blog/post/setting-drupal-6-work-really-well-windows...

Thu, 21/10/2010 - 6:14pm — seoaddiction (not verified)

Your revised instructions are

Your revised instructions are really very useful for people.

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Fri, 21/01/2011 - 8:46pm — tommy2 (not verified)

It’s very great explanation.

It’s very great explanation. I have started using Windows Writer and everything is ok. Thanks for your help. Tomas - custom writing

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