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Works like a charm. Especially in combination with e.i. Windows Live Writer an excellent solution for writing articles off line.
Tip: extend your description with the purpose of this plugin!

This really will help my client to post in Joomla.I have tested with Windows Live Writer and work verywell, strangely Microsoft Word doesn't support MovableType API. Only metaweblog. I would be better if MovableTyp also support K2 or Flexicontent extension since many site which have complex content use CCK Extensio like K2 and Flexicontent. Thank you

Absolute must-have extension, every Joomla neophyte should be told to downlaod this and use a tool like Live Writer with it.

It speeds up your day-to-day interaction with Joomla's backend incomparably.

Joomla should honestly think about including in every installation a basic crash course of little tips and tricks that make your life in Joomla easier.

The plugin itself does the job fairly efficiently and well - just needed some tinkering in the code to fix it so that registered users can not start abusing your API and filling your database with articles.

(Ok I just lost my review due to some Joomla session error, so this one was a little briefer and less gushing)

Installed easily and integrated with Windows Live Writer without a hitch. I later installed DDRFS for bookmarking and started getting this error:

The response to the metaWeblog.newPost method received from the blog server was invalid: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server.

I started to panick! Then I deduced that it I started getting this error after I installed DDRFS - uninstalled and Bob's your uncle!

Thanks again!

MovableType XML-RPC Plugin helped me develop Joomla based web sites for customers who wanted to post content from Nokia phones. It works seamlessly with Wavelog mobile blogging client.
That is the right solution for small newspapers (community, university, etc.) that want to deploy citizen journalism approach to reduce the time to publish while preserving independence from content aggregation and use Joomla's flexibility!

This extension is a must and should be incorporated to joomla.

It works fine with Bleezer and Windows Live Writer for posting blog entries. Image uploading is handled fine as well.

The only feature that seems to be missing is retrieving previous posts (which can be handy to quote or update old postings).

Keep up the good work!

P.S. I've looked at the source a few times and I dare say the lack of comments is somewhat not handy ;) Also it looks like there is some legacy code from the original module present.

I used this plugin before using 1.0.13 and it worked fine back then too. One thing I noticed with the newer version over the other is that the direct picture posting in 1.0.15 and this current version don't work. But no problem for I simply created an FTP upload to get my images up.

For those who find the install instructions cryptic. Here is what I did.
1. Download and unzip the package.
2. Use Joomla : Installer : Mambot to load the movabletype_2.00_forenglish file.
3. Then I use Core FTP program to copy the xmlrpc folder after it too is unzipped into my main joomla directory.
4. I install the Fronpage mambot also so all new entries get copied to fron page. It is easy to set up.
5 I tested with LiveWRiter, Flock, and Zoundry and it worked fine on all.

Use the settings of Moveable Type of Custom moveable type
Use your url for the first entry ie http://myweb.com

Use http://myweb.com/xmlrpc/index.php for the second and away you go. You will get some error messages about it can't determine the type. Just ignore them.

On 1.0.15 when you set up the FTP make sure on the uri that you specify the images directory correctly i.e. http://myweb.com/images/stories and all works fine.

IN all this makes writing articles a pleasure and much faster. I also reccomend using Zoundary and installing it on a a zip drive. Then you can write when you get the chance and upload all at once.

Have Fun

The whole site is in Japanese. This sounds like a module I'd very much like to use, but I'm not totally sure it is what I think it is, as the English is not so good and I don't understand Japanese.

I downloaded the Joomla 1.0.15 version and there are two .zip files in it - one of which doesn't get recognized as a Mambot, a Module, or a Component. Since the publisher didn't use any convention to denote what it's supposed to be, I had to try each one only to find that it doesn't work as any of them - I have no choice but to assume the package is broken.

Apparently there's some files I have to overwrite, but I'm not totally sure which ones and what folder they're in.

I'm sure this has great potential, but it doesn't work for me.

I also wanted to use the blogging feature of Flock to post to my website that uses Joomla 1.0.13 but unfortunately try as I might I was unable to get it to work.

I was also frustrated by the lack of documentation. From what I understand the extension .zip file comes with 2 files, one of which you have to manually unzip on your server, the other you have to install as a mambot. Unfortunately it didn't say so anywhere I could find.

It doesn't work for me unfortunately.

I did everything the first reviewer did, also using Flock, and I keep getting errors.

I tried creating a new author account, didn't work. I would ask at the extension's homepage, but it is in another language.

I wanted to try the blogging feature of Flock browser, on my site with Joomla 1.5. Just installed this plugin, configured flock (pointing to /xmlrpc/index.php), and I was easily able to publish my post from Flock!

Very great!!

The new version 2.0 (for j!1.0) fixes very many bugs and adds a great functionality (categories)
but it seems that it has lost upload image functionality :( it doesn't work more, only ftp. (I'm using Windows Live Writer and Joomla 1.0.15)

Hi,

good Function. So its finaly possible to start using livewriter. Currently I can:

- Edit existing posts
- Writing new posts
- selecting category
- Uploading Images

What`s currently not working with the latest live-writer Version:

- Style preview & CSS autodetect
- Livewriter have problems with his own Testposting it doesnt see its own posts
- Autodetect of Blogtype
- The Plugin Interface in Joomla is not available in english

Thank you so much for creating this I have only tested with Windows liver writer and 1.0.13 and works as promised.

Just tested using Joomla 1.5 rc4 and with Windows Live Writer and really amazing. Lets you fully format and add pictures in the editor, resize those images to thumbnail size and post to my web site without having to log in. With the added plugin from joomler.net GreyBox Show all my images come up in GreyBox.

This alone makes we switch a 1000 + member site over to Joomla.

The support questions I posted at joomler.net where quickly answered and great support.

Absolutely fabulous!
At least, Joomla have way to remotely post, not login in to admin panel.
Save MUCH time!
Some problems - you cannot post directly to front page via xml-rpc and you cannot have "preview part of post and full post"...this make me sad...