As you all know, I run my blog on the Movable Type blogging platform. Until recently, the only applications that could connect to this blog were Ecto, which I didn't want to pay for, and Qumana, which doesn't look that good. The only other oprion was Contribute CS4, ahich I already had a license for. Up until now, Contribute has never connected to my Movable Type blog. It always errored out and wouldn't connect.
Until now.
I have no idea what I have done to make it work, but it does. So, I'll show you how.
When you open Contribute for the first time, it gives you the option to add a blog connection. Click on that link. You should get a window that looks like this:
In this window, you want to select the option to hook to "Other Blog Servers". In the field in the bottom, enter the address of your blog.
In the next pane, enter the username that you use to login to your site. PAY ATTENTION TO THIS STEP! Go into your Movable Type Administration panel, and go toyr user settings. Scroll down, and retrieve your Web Services password. This is the password that you enter into the password field in this panel. For the access point, you have to enter the path on your server to the file mt-xmlrpc.cgi. This file is usually located in the same folder as your MT installation. for example: http://www.yoursite.com/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi.
Once these steps are done, click finish. It will take a few minutes to build all of the required templates in order to build you a blog entry. NOTE: It will pull templates for all of the blogs that you have set up under your user account. This is handy for installations with more than one blog.
You are now ready to use Contribute CS4 to edit your Movable Type Blog. Have fun Blogging!
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