A variety of issues can prevent MarsEdit from connecting to your blog. This page summarizes the most common issues, and details workarounds where they exist. Security-Related Connection Failures Many mysterious connection failures can be explained by security measures imposed either by the web hosting company where your blog is published, or by additional plugins designed […]

When two-step authentication is enabled for a blog, your primary password generally cannot be used to log in with MarsEdit. Instead, you need to configure a special password, usually called an “application password,” which can be used exclusively by MarsEdit to connect to your blog. Application passwords can typically be managed in the admin interface […]

MarsEdit users who have not updated to MarsEdit 4 may encounter an error while trying to connect to blog servers that have been configured to require newer versions of TLS, the protocol that is used to create secure HTTPS connections between MarsEdit and your site. Because of the way Apple’s networking infrastructure was designed, macOS […]