Does marsedit use xmlpc software#

Now you have a working case to compare your custom implementation against.

That is, get a free blog somewhere, set it up and throw a few test posts up. Once you’ve settled no an API, I suggest setting up a working test blog that uses the API. You’ll be in good company, since some major services such as WordPress and Microsoft Spaces use the API for their remote editing support. The choice is yours, but if you have no clue about which to adopt, I’d probably recommend the MetaWeblog API.

The first thing you’ll need to do is choose a publicly documented API to implement. I mean, you’d be crazy to not use MarsEdit, but I’d rather keep you as a happy customer than a locked-in one! The best part is that by adopting a standard API, you’ll be prepared to work with other clients besides just MarsEdit. And after all, I assume if you’ve got a custom solution already, you know your way around a bit of web programming (or you know somebody who does!). This isn’t as hard as it sounds, because there are really only a few calls involved. So how do you get MarsEdit working with your custom server software? You adopt a standard API and implement it for your site, in the form of a “xmlrpc.php” type file that accepts POST requests from MarsEdit and returns the appropriate responses. This general line of thinking is the right one, but the plugin is probably more appropriate for the server than for the client.

Does marsedit use xmlpc software#

Many have suggested that it would help for MarsEdit to support some kind of plugin system whereby custom software authors could develop a script or piece of code to help MarsEdit interface with the site. I’ve received several private inquiries and this public one, all asking about the steps required to get MarsEdit working with a custom piece of hosting software. Although the vast majority of MarsEdit users are using it to manage posts on one of the big publicly available blogging systems, there are a good number of users, especially in the tech community, who run their own custom blog or blog-like software.