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Blogging can be really a fun game if you would like to blog about your experiences as they happen. With the help of wireless technology there is no reason you can not do it while you are out and about. WordPress can make that a very real possibility. Capturing your thoughts and blogging them right away can be very captivating for readers of your site.

In my Previous Posts I have explained “How to Make a Blog Post Using Flickr and Posterous?” and ” How to make WordPress and Blogger Post Via e-Mail“

Now i am going to explain How to remotely access your blog, you have to turn on the WordPress featureto allow outside applications to connect and interact with your site. Because by default this feature is turned off. There are two ways that outside applicationscan interact with WordPress:

1. Atom Publishing

2. XML-RPC

But be careful before enabling this feature. So Enable Only What You Need.

If you have a blog hosted on WordPress.com than you dont need to enable it because the Remote Publishing

feature is turned on by default as opposed to your WordPress.orginstall.

Use the following steps to turn on an option for remote access:

1. Open your site’s Dashboard, Select Writing under Settings.

2. In the Remote Publishing section, select the XML-RPC option or Atom Publishing Protocol.

3. Click Save Changes.

At this stage due to security risk, you should only turn on only the option which you are going to use. If you ask me which option is good XML-RPC or Atom Publishing, I cannot say that one publishing protocol is better than another; however, its all up to you and the application that support Atom Publishing or XML-RPC.

Now, to use your remote blogging capabilities, you need to know only your site’s URL, username, and password, and you are set. And one more important thing where to find the XML-RPC Script. Some sites and applications are smart enough to figure out where your XML-RPC script is located. If they don’t know, just tell a complete URL to your site, including the XML-RPC script as http://www.yoursite.com/xml-rpc.php instead of http://www.yoursite.com.

XML-RPC is the simplest XML-based protocol for exchanging information between computers.

More you can learn about XML-RPC at Tutorials Point

And more Atom Publishing:

http://codex.wordpress.org/AtomPub

http://www.slideshare.net/dhaun/atom-publishing-protocol-presentation

http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-06.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)

http://www.atomenabled.org/

http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atompub/charter/

References: http://www.infotecs.biz/vpn-remote-access.htm

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