Fix for Windows Live Writer bug
Posted on Aug 14, 2007 at 11:04 UK time in Blogging, Software, Weblog Tools, Weblogs
My post the other day about Windows Live Writer attracted a notable comment from Shannon Whitley with the solution to a show-stopping bug in using this excellent offline blog editor with WordPress (and maybe other platforms, too).
The bug in question arises if you use WLW beta 2 and you have the Bad Behavior anti-spam plugin activated.
If you do, you’ll get an error like this whenever you try to publish a post to your blog:
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden
As a result, you will not be able to publish your post.
That’s exactly what I experienced yesterday - I had reinstalled the BB plugin and didn’t connect that with the WLW issue until Shannon pointed it out.
So I’ve implemented James McKay’s fix - which involves editing the PHP code in one of the BB files on the server - and this post will be the acid test as to whether it’s successful or not…
[Edit] Yep, it works!
4 Comment(s)
By
Rob Safuto on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
Thanks Neville. I was stuck on that issue and had given up on WLW because of it.
By
neville on Aug 14, 2007 | Reply
I would have done the same, Rob, if Shannon hadn’t come to the rescue.
Surprises me that the WLW site has no reference to the bug fix.
By
Joe Cheng [MSFT] on Aug 15, 2007 | Reply
Neville, we’ve put all WordPress-WLW issues on this page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Windows_Live_Writer_Help
And please either e-mail me or stop by our friendly forums if you have any trouble in the future. We’ve got solutions for lots of configuration issues like these!
http://groups.msn.com/windowslivewriter
By
neville on Aug 15, 2007 | Reply
Thanks, Joe. I do participate in the WLW forum. It’s just that I ranted here rather than there