Desktop Blogging Clients / Weblog Clients and Wordpress Pages
If you have already tried desktop blogging clients, you might have noticed that not all of them support creating and editing Wordpress pages. There is an inherit problem with Wordpress which prevents weblog clients from accessing the pages.
If you need more of this technical stuff, I will explain. Weblog clients access the blog through an interface called XMLRPC. XMLRPC is
a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet….It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned.
[Source: www.www.xmlrpc.com]
Now in Wordpress, only the posts can be accessed via XMLRPC. It is NOT possible to access pages via XMLRPC without making changes (or hacking) to some files. And this poses an inherent restriction on blog clients.
However, there is an API which can be used to access Wordpress pages. [The technical details...don't ask! I don't know!] This comes to fact that certain desktop blogging clients can access Wordpress pages.
Here is a list of those clients:
- Microsoft Windows Live Writer
- Zoundry Raven [see: www.zoundryraven.com]
- Scribefire
And there may be some other clients as well, but I don’t know about them.
If you were to ask me to choose one of the three above, I will definitely go for Live Writer. It is the BEST! That is all I will say about it.
