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TypePad Password Failures

A common problem when setting up a TypePad blog is entering the wrong password. TypePad is unusual in that it requires a separate, web services password when logging in from an application such as MarsEdit. To locate the password, log in to your TypePad administration panel on the web, and look inside your user settings.

How to get the API Endpoint URL

At this writing, the API Endpoint URL for TypePad sites is: http://www.typepad.com/services/xmlrpc

How to get the Blog ID

  1. Log into TypePad and enter Typepad.
  2. Click the Create a Post link: a Compose a New Post page will open.
  3. The URL that appears in the address field of your browser should contain the Blog ID.

For instance, if the URL looks like this:

http://example.com/mt/mt.cgi?__mode=menu&blog_id=6

Then the Blog ID is 6, the number immediately following the blog_id= part.