Comments on: WordPress 2.7 Released – XML-RPC and AtomPub Changes

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:19:07 +0000

That’s an odd error, make sure that your WordPress install is not missing any files. Also go through the regular debug checks, disable all of your plugins and see if the problem still happens. Switch to the default WordPress theme and see if it still happens. Either of those (plugins and themes) could cause problems, so best to rule them out quickly.

By: LouwDV

LouwDV — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:38:35 +0000

I’m new to wordpress and i’m running on 2.7.I’ve got the weirdest thing that when i make changes to the settings/writing page, specifically to enable xml-rpc, and click “save changes” I get the following message:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/options.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.41 Server at worship.bergtee.co.za Port 80

Please Help! Thanks, Louw

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:59:45 +0000

Ah, I should have suggested disabling plugins earlier in trying to track down the problem. Thanks for following up on that.

By: n-blue

n-blue — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:57:11 +0000

to add:
Just update Custom Smilies 1.2 to 2.6 also work fine.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-smilies-se/

By: n-blue

n-blue — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:38:50 +0000

I am here again.
After spend lot of time I found some suggestin at this site:
http://www.crankup.net/windows-live-writer-error

In my case it caused by plug-in. After checking plugin one-by-one I found Custom Smilies 1.2 causing this issue. Just disable it WLW will work well as before but sadily no emoticon at all.

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:38:16 +0000

This is mostly likely the libxml2 problem I outlined http://josephscott.org/archives/2008/12/problems-with-libxml2-for-wordpress-xml-rpc-users/

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:34:43 +0000

I’m facing the same problem as Chris L above. The tags are stripped when uploading and it is a real pain fixing the same.

WLW is one of the best desktop publishing apps out there and it is irritating that WordPress 2.7 broke it.

2.6.5 works perfectly with WLW.

By: Joseph Scott

Joseph Scott — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:21:37 +0000

Did you upgrade anything else at the same time as WordPress? I believe that the new versions of libxml2 have introduces bugs that may cause problems.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:53:28 +0000

It also looks like the tags are getting stripped, so I Get posts that look like:

pTesting. Don’t pay attention to the man behind the curtain./p

By: Chris L

Chris L — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:32:36 +0000

Since I upgraded to 2.7 (from 2.6), my posts through XMLRPC are replacing some characters with entities and essentially mangling my posts. This happens with both my own PHP script that posts through the interface using cURL and with Windows Live Writer… any ideas?