For all those following julesmoretti’s excellent instructions and your still getting failure. I think I know your issue. Try this:
Log in to your self hosted wordpress account.
Click “Settings” then
Click “Writing”
Under the “Remote Publishing” heading look for – XML-RPC
and check the box next to the text that reads “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.”
Save your settings, and viola…it will work, I was banging my head against the wall until this dawned on me.
