Use third-party blog editors to create entries for the blog

We can set up the blog so that we can use a third-party editing tool to create blog entries.

To use this application, we must already have a blog with at least one entry. You must also have access to a third-party blog-editing tool, such as w.bloggar or ScribeFire. The steps describe how to set up the blog to use ScribeFire, a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox. The steps for enabling other editors as third-party editors are detailed in an article titled Use third-party editors to author blog entries on the Connections wiki.

Follow these steps to specify an alternate editor for creating blog entries. These steps assume that you already installed the ScribeFire plug-in and that we are using Mozilla Firefox as the browser.

1. Click My Blogs to work with your blog.

2. Click Settings to edit the settings for the blog.

3. Enable the Enable Blogger and Metaweblog API for the blog setting on the General page.

4. Click Update Blog Settings.

5. Click the Scribefire icon in the Firefox status bar or choose Scribefire from the Tools menu to start ScribeFire.

6. Start the account wizard.

7. Enter the URL for the blog.

8. Select Metaweblog API in the system type field and enter the URL for the Blogs server in the Server API URL field. The URL looks like: http://host/blogs/services/xmlrpc.

9. Enter the Connections user name and password.

   Both user name and password are case-sensitive. If the login is successful, we see a list of the blogs.

10. Select the blog or blogs to update with ScribeFire.

11. Use ScribeFire to create a blog entry and post it to your blog.

Parent topic:
Create a blog entry