WordPress is a popular web hosting platform that integratees very well with MarsEdit. Because WordPress is open-source, there are a wide variety of hosting options, and a large community of users who share plugins, themes, and knowledge about the platform. If you are having trouble connecting MarsEdit to your WordPress site, be sure to review […]

If your connection to a WordPress blog is failing with a vague “WordPress XML parser” failure, it probably means that something is interfering with your blog’s ability to decode the messages that MarsEdit is sending to it. There are a few common causes for this problem: Conflicting Plugins. If your blog is self-hosted, you might […]

Many MarsEdit customers choose to host their blogs with WordPress. Because WordPress is open-source software, there are many ways to run it on a server, ranging from the eponymous WordPress.com hosting service, to other commercial hosts, to installing the software yourself on a shared or dedicated hosting service. Fully Hosted Solutions Fully hosted solutions take […]

As of January, 2020, MarsEdit does not support publishing to Blogger.com. Customers with existing Blogger configurations may be able to migrate authentication information from one Mac to another using these instructions. This should be considered a short-term workaround. MarsEdit added support for Google’s Blogger.com way back in 2007, but in recent years Google’s support for […]

These details pertain to the higher level Manual Configuration instructions. Please review that article and use the specific details obtained by the instructions below to finish connecting MarsEdit to your blog. Tumblr supports a variety of post kinds, in addition to regular text entries. When creating a new entry for your Tumblr blog, you can […]

These details pertain to the higher level Manual Configuration instructions. Please review that article and use the specific details obtained by the instructions below to finish connecting MarsEdit to your blog. How to get the API Endpoint URL The API Endpoint URL is usually https://[site]/xmlrpc.php, where [site] is the path to your site. If you […]

If MarsEdit fails to automatically detect your blog’s settings, you can configure it manually. Select the blog from the Blogs list in the main window. Choose the Blog > Edit Settings… menu item. Select the Connection tab within blog settings. The Connection tab of the blog’s settings contains the pertinent settings. The Blog Name and […]

Setting up your blog When you first open MarsEdit, it will ask for details about your blog. If you want to add additional blogs, choose the File > New Blog… menu item. After you enter the name and URL of your blog’s home page, MarsEdit will usually figure out the rest of the settings it […]

WP-SpamShield changes a default behavior of WordPress, which MarsEdit relies upon when connecting to your blog. Normally, if an incorrect or empty username and password are provided, WordPress responds with a request to prompt the user for a password. WP-SpamShield changes this behavior so that WordPress’s usual response is not delivered. To work around this […]

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 […]