As I have been doing a lot of what can be considered “Support” issues, I get a number of common issues.

One of the most common is definitely the “I can’t log in using Scribefire, but I can log in fine from the web page”.

In this case, the two most prevalent reasons are:

1. When entering a blog, instead of just clicking the “Next >” button, the person would click “Configure Manually”. Then, from the list, the most common choice is “Wordpress.com”. Since they are actually using their own install of wordpress, they actually aren’t on wordpress.com and so get invalid login/password.

For this case, adding the blog without clicking “Configure Manually” fixes the problem.

2. The second complaint is one I just figured out, and is the impetus of this post. It seems, for whatever reason, a blog may not have the xmlrpc publishing option checked and this is causing problems. In order to turn on xmlrpc publishing, the user should go under Settings -> Writing, and check the checkbox next to “XML RPC Publishing”.