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11/01/07
I ecto therefore I blog
by Josep M. Ganyet
I used to blog with Ecto, a Mac OS & Windows desktop app, in my old Expression Engine blog and after embracing the Wordpress faith I decided to go for it too. Even easier. Ecto and Wordpress blend seamlessly.
First step: Setup
The set up is a breeze: point Ecto to your blog, enter userid and password and you can already start desktop blogging.
Second step: Tag support
This meant pushing ecto a little bit further. I couldn’t blog without the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin. Would ecto support tagging? I googled for ecto+wordpress and I came across Robin Lu’s hack to make it work. It involved hacking the xmlrpc.php Wordpress file. Lu’s instructions were clear eough so here I am.
Third step: Image upload
Rudeworks a much acclaimed blogger and expert CSS designer, expressed some concern with Ecto’s image handling. I’ll post a few pictures to check the results.
Happy Ecto blogging.

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Comments on "I ecto therefore I blog"
2 comments
11/02/07
Ulrich
Any idea’s on how to make it work in WP 2.1 ?
11/02/07
Josep M. Ganyet
Urlich,
I haven’t ugraded to WP 2.1 yet but I think that this plugin can help you out.
http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/01/27/utw-rpc-11-autotag/
It just wraps the xmlrpc.php so it interfaces with Ecto and UTW. You’ll find all the documentation in the link above.
I hope it helps.
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