How to Enable Remote Publishing in WordPress Blogs?

provides users with an option to remotely publish posts using external tools or devices like Windows Live Writer. However, for security XML RPC was automatically disabled in newer versions of WordPress.

xmlrpc_services_are_disabled

If you see an error like XML-RPC services are disabled on this blogor Blog Server Error – Server Error 405 Occurred. It means that XML RPC is disabled on your blog.

To enable Remote publishing or XML RPC publishing on your blog, follow the steps given below.

Step 1: Login to your WordPress Admin Dashboard.

Step 2: Expand Settings and Click on Writing.

enable_remote_publishing_in_wordpress

Step 3: Scroll down till you see Remote publishing and select the checkbox next to Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols. You might also want to enable the Atom Publishing Protocol

Step 4: Click on Save Changes and try again, you should now be able to publish posts remotely to your WordPress blog.

Published by

Keith Dsouza

I am the editor-in-chief and owner of Techie Buzz. I love coding and have contributed to several open source projects in the past. You can know more about me and my projects by visiting my Personal Website.I am also a social networking enthusiast and can be found active on twitter, you can follow Keith on twitter @keithdsouza. You can click on my name to visit my Google+ profile.

  • Hi Keith
    When this protocol is enabled does that mean USERS (authors/contributors) can also publish remotely without logging into their dashboard?
    Usually my users can only submit their posts for review before I publish them but recently a user self published from Poland. This was a shock I can tell you.
    Any ideas?

    • @karen – Yes – This means that authors can publish without logging into the dashboard. I don’t think contributors have publishing privileges.