How to setup account for your WordPress blog

Post2Blog is a desktop blogging client. You can add new posts, manage existing posts in different blogs of various types including WordPress

Post2Blog provides full support for WordPress engine and you can create account to add new posts, manage existing posts in your WordPress blog using Post2Blog

This quick start tutorial will show how to setup account in Post2Blog to start posting and manage your posts in WordPress blog.

Run Post2Blog

Go to File menu and click New item in Account sub-menu:

New Account Wizard will start. Select Existing blog and click Next

Select WordPress blog type and click Next

Now enter full link to your WordPress blog. If your WordPress blog is located in the sub-folder then don't forget to enter full link to the blog. This link should open your blog.

Then click Next to continue

Account wizard will ask to review and confirm link to XML-RPC interface that is used to connect to WordPress blog. You shouldn't change this if you don't know what it mean

Click Next to continue

Now you should enter username you use to access your WordPress blog (the same as you use to login into WordPress's administration panel). Common username is admin

Then click Next to continue

Click Next to continue

Next page is used to setup how to upload images and files used in your post to the server. In most cases you can use uploading via blog option:

IMPORTANT NOTE for WordPress users: make sure that  Allow File Uploads options is enabled in WordPress administration panel. Check this link on WordPress web-site to find more about this option: http://codex.wordpress.org/Miscellaneous_Options_SubPanel#Allow_File_Uploads

Commonly used folder for images and files uploading is ../wp-content/. Make sure attributes of this folder are 755 (read and execute) or even 777. You can change attributes of folder using FTP manager or File Manager in cPanel (if you use cPanel) or using CHMOD command for FTP.

File uploading feature is great however there is an alternative file uploading method: FTP uploading. Check how to setup FTP uploading settings for account topic for more information if you are familiar with FTP.

Click Next to continue account setup

Enter title for new WordPress account. This title will be used to identify account in the list of accounts. Click Next to finish wizard

Now click Finished to close wizard

Post editor window will appear and new WordPress account will be automatically selected in the list of available accounts:

To make new post just compose new post and click Post As Draft or Post And Publish 

or click Most Recent Post to edit most recent post in the blog.