Windows Live Writer issue and WordPress 2.6x

I asked my host to downgrade libxml per kim_nz’s suggestion, but the problem persisted even after the downgrade in my case. This is frustrating.

Hi.
On my Fedora 9 I had to downgrade to libxml2-2.6.32-1.fc9 and xml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.

I initially started with a downgrade of PHP (I thought it may have been php’s processing of xmlrpc.php) but still had the issue so I then downgraded libxml and xml-common and the problem was resolved.

I then re installed the latest php from the update repo. I had to set up yum to exclude libxml* and xml-common* so the nightly yum update didn’t put the libxml files back in place.

I found it wasn’t a WP issue when I setup a test blog site on my old Cobalt RaQ4i and had no problems publishing from WLW so I started looking into what packages were upgraded on my server around the time I upgraded WP to 2.6.2

hth
Kim

@kim, i have cpanel, is there anything here that needs to be updated to get WLW working?

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Thats the pearl list versions

Hi bebo2good1

AFAIK, perl modules shouldn’t have any effect on WP. I could be wrong. I don’t deal with perl much and haven’t made any modifications to any perl libraries from what is installed by default.

WordPress 2.6.x disables remote blogging by default. Go to options->writing and make sure XML-RPC blogging is checked.

Does anyone have a solution for this issue? I am still having problems posting using WLW to WP 2.6.2 and I have tried everything above to no avail! Anything to do would be great because I can only blog with WLW because I hate using the interface and uploading pictures it is a huge pain!

Thanks,
Dan

I had that same problem. I only resolved it by deleting any plugins that would imporve the basic WP TinyMce editor. Then WLW worked fine.

Try temporarily disabling all plugins and see if the problem continues.

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Nope tried that with no luck, I tried disabling all plugins with no luck

For those who made a lot of helpful suggestion re. HTML and the Visual editor, this is a weird problem where WordPress displays _partial_ HTML instead of th desired human readble form. In other words, a paragraph which should read “This is my paragraph” and which of course in HTML shows “<p>This is my patagrah … instead displays as ” p>This is my paragraoh … (note the leading ‘<‘ character is stripped of, breaking the code.

I have this same exact problem, which is incredibly frustrating as well. www.ads-software.com folks – help!

if you post includes images here is the possible solution https://geovanimartinez.com/?p=44

Any news on this?

For HTML tags being stripped, write to your web host suppport and ask them to add the XMLRPC libraries or recompile Apache.

Hi I am having this problem as well and have deactivated all plugins. I have asked my host to downgrade to libxml2-2.6.32-1.fc9 and xml-common-0.6.3-23.fc9.
I have not tried monkeylove’s suggestion.

I’ll contact my webhost to update the library but this plugin works:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/libxml2-fix/
(the manual fix to comment out didn’t work for me)