Joseph Scott

Grab an updated copy of xmlrpc.php for 2.7:

https://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.7/xmlrpc.php

That should solve the category problem.

I’ve answered both of these questions in your Trac tickets.

I have not be able to reproduce this error. Are you using a specific client that is having a problem?

Testing against 2.7 I make a call metaWeblog.getCategories call and get the default “Uncategorized” category back just fine:

{
        categoryId = 1;
        categoryName = Uncategorized;
        description = "";
        htmlUrl = "https://localhost/~joseph/wp/trunk/?cat=1";
        parentId = 0;
        rssUrl = "https://localhost/~joseph/wp/trunk?feed=rss2&cat=1";
}

In order to come up with the right fix we really need to be able reliably reproduce this problem.

If you find any other details that might help I’m happy to get the problem tracked down.

Is there anything else about your blog, server or setup that might have trigger the switch to https? I’ve been trying to re-create this problem using -trunk (bleeding edge 2.7) and have been unsuccessful so far.

I’m not aware of anyway to do this currently outside of making changes to the XML-RPC code. I’ve suggested to one of the Flickr engineers that they send along the tags used on the image when posting to WordPress. Not sure if they’ll ever add that though.

@mesteno –

One thing I noticed on your blog is that the RSD link is only listing the path portion of the URL (/xmlrpc.php?rsd instead of example.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd). I suspect this is the reason why the iphone app can’t find your XML-RPC end point correctly.

Just to note, I have suggested to folks at Flickr that they pass the tags on an image to blogs posts. Don’t know if it ever happen, but I’ve at least suggested it ??

Ahhh, your using the free hosting at GoDaddy. They inject some Javascript with every request, which breaks the XML-RPC format.

What’s the URL for this blog? I can at least check if the basic XML-RPC features are working correctly.

Any chance this is a WPMU blog? I think there was a release of WPMU that problems with blogger.getUsersBlogs that has since been fixed in recent versions.

You didn’t indicate what error Windows Live Writer or ScribeFire indicated. That would be helpful in tracking down what the problem is.

I’m not sure what an error 406 is for Windows Live Writer (WLW). Normally WLW would detect the correct URL for the XML-RPC end point. What’s the URL of the blog you are trying this with?

In XML-RPC you can do this. You can add tags to an existing post via metaWeblog.editPost. We’ve got a new method in -trunk (will be part of 2.7 release) to get all of the tags used on the blog: wp.getTags.

@jord_t –

Did you not have the edituri line in the HTML output of your blog already? Did you remove the wp_head() call in your theme? I recommend against removing the wp_head() call, many XML-RPC clients depend on the edituri line.