INstructions On How to Setup MarsEdit?
  • danieljcoxdanieljcox
    Having a tough time setting up MarsEdit. Help Menu useless. Hoping someone can give me a hand. Here are my questions
    andother details.

    Details
    -It is a wordpress blog that is hosted on my ISP's server, not wordpress' server
    -I have to sign in with username and password

    Questions

    -Why are there two password options? Under the Blog tab at the top there are two options. 1). Enter Password and 2). Enter HTTP Password. The first one I understand but I have no idea what an HTTP password is. Do I need to enter this option?

    -Under the Blog>Edit Settings>General Tab. What is an API Endpoint URL and do I need this? What is a blog ID?

    -After going through the motions of setting us Marpress as best I can I try to send a post and I get an error stating Blog is not correctly configured. The RPC URL has not been set. Please correct this setting and try again. I have no idea what an RPC URL is. Any suggestions?

    I've heard good things about Marsedit but documentation obviously isn't on the positive list.
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi Daniel - sorry MarsEdit is giving you a hard time getting things set up properly. To answer your questions:

    1. You probably don't need to enter an HTTP password. This is for advanced configurations where users have put their entire blog behind an additional level of security.

    2. The API Endpoint URL and Blog ID are normally set up automatically by MarsEdit when you enter the home page URL for your blog. If these were not set up automatically it means that MarsEdit was not able to determine the details from your blog. For WordPress this usually means the theme you are using on your blog has somehow disabled the feature in WordPress that exposes the settings information to clients such as MarsEdit.

    There is definitely a lot of room for improvement with documentation in MarsEdit. But the particular details you are curious about are covered in some detail if you look under the section for "Getting Started", and then click the link for "Manual Configuration" near the top, where it explains what to do if the auto-detection of settings doesn't work. You will find some advice in this section for how to set the API Endpoint URL and the blog ID for WordPress blogs.

    Let me know if the documentation doesn't explain it clearly enough. I'll be happy to give more specific advice here.

    Daniel
  • Ronaldo215Ronaldo215
    Hi!

    On my Mac that's also the case, that MarsEdit is not able to determine the details from my blog. Is there a way of handling that without changing the WP theme? I'd like to try MarsEdit but somehow it's not working.

    Ronny
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi Ronny - if you can figure out or guess the "API Endpoint URL", You should be able to configure WordPress manually. For most WordPress blogs the URL is just the URL of your blog with /xmlrpc.php tacked on. So e.g. if your blog site is http://example.com/ then it would be http://example.com/xmlrpc.php

    1. Select the blog in MarsEdit, then select Blog -> Edit Settings… from the menu bar.
    2. Click the "General" tab and make sure the settings match these:

    System Name: WordPress
    System API: WordPress API
    API Endpoint URL: [Whatever your API Endpoint URL is]
    Blog ID: 1

    I believe if you make these settings changes, click OK, and then "Refresh" the blog then it will work as expected. Let me know how this goes!

    Daniel
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