A Note For Users Of MarsEdit And Movable Type 3.2

After upgrad­ing to Mov­able Type 3.2, I found I couldn’t post to my weblog using MarsEdit and, since a cur­sory Googling didn’t help, here’s what you need to do if you’re stuck too:

1. Log into MT
2. Click on your user­name in the top navbar to go to your profile
3. Scroll down to the bottom where you see “API Password”
4. Input the pass­word of your choice and save. For secu­rity rea­sons, it should be dif­fer­ent from your normal password
5. Use that pass­word in your client software

I imag­ine the same goes for Ecto and other remote clients.

The above instruc­tions are taken from the XML-​RPC and Atom client setup page in the doc­u­men­ta­tion for the beta ver­sion of Mov­able Type 3.2. Fun­nily enough, the beta doc­u­men­ta­tion would seem to be the best resource avail­able, since the offi­cial User Manual for 3.2 is, er, still in beta.

Posted at 5pm on 08/09/05 by Jack Mottram to the mac category.
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