Windows Live writer error?

Published: Jan 9th, 2008 | Author: Crank Up 2 Comments

Sometimes my internet connection is very slow that it takes ages for some pages to load and it made my blogging very difficult. I decided to check out one of the desktop blogging tools to blog. I chose Windows Live writer as I am a great fan of windows products (even though some of them suck! )

I decided to use WLW mainly for 3 reasons

Its FREE
We can write anytime and post when it is ready
Its cool looking interface

After much struggle I downloaded WLW. The download page is very confusing that I kept on revisiting the same page again and again but couldn’t find the download link. Download WLW from here if you are still searching for it.

After entering all the settings I was greeted with an error message. (Click to enlarge)

“Invalid server response – The response to the blogger.getUserBlogs method received from the weblog server was invalid”

This is one of the common error message that wordpress users get. There are two ways the resolve the error.

1. Add the following lines to your website’s .htaccess file

<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

But this may not work in some cases. you will receive “Error 500 internal server error” when you try to access your wordpress admin page of your website. Then try the below step.

2. Login to your wodpress admin page and deactivate all the plugins. Now try connecting WLW to your blog. If everything goes well then the problem is with your plugins. Reactivate each plugin one by one and try to connect ith WLW and it should work.

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