Problem found and resolved.
I use ecto to post to all of my blog-based Web sites. It’s a great offline post composition/editing tool that gives me all of the tools I need to get the job done.
Yesterday, I updated our WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide companion Web site to WordPress 2.1 Today, I discovered that I could no longer load or “refresh” that site’s entries in ecto. When I tried, ecto would get hung up while “retrieving categories” for the last entry created.
I poked around in the ecto support forum and came up with this thread. Evidently, I wasn’t the only one having the problem. The ecto folks claimed it was a WordPress problem that had to do with the xmlrpc.php file (which resides in the root directory of a WordPress installation). I followed the thread until I came up with this fix by gusleig:
You must edit your
xmlrpc.php. Find:
'categoryId' => $catid,and change to:
'categoryId' => (string) $catid,
I followed these instructions, saved the modified xmlrpc.php file, and tried ecto again. It worked.
The folks at WordPress are aware of the problem. If they haven’t already fixed this on WordPress.com, I assume they will shortly. And the xmlrpc.php file modification will be in place in the next release of WordPress, so be sure to make sure you have a problem before you try this fix.
