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 the WordPress engine and you can create an account to add new posts, manage existing posts in your WordPress blog using Post2Blog

This quick start tutorial will show how to setup an 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:

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

Select the WordPress blog type and click Next

Now enter the 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

The account wizard will ask to review and confirm the 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 the 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

Change connection proxy settings if needed. If you don't know what it mean then don't change anything.

Click Next to continue

The 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: 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.

Click Next to continue an account setup

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

Now click Finished to close the wizard

Post editor window will appear and new 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.