Publishing your posts from Microsoft Word!

Step by step instructions for those of us who has a wordpress blog and now wants to connect MS Word to it so that writing a blog in ms Word would directly publish in wordpress.

Step 1: Setup your wordpress admin.

1. Go to Settings>Writing>
   1. Then go the Remote Publishing and put a check mark
      next to
      1. Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.
         
   2. And click Save Changes.
   3. Screenshot:

      

Step 2: Setup Microsoft word.

1. Click New and select Blog and click Create. Screenshot:

   

2. A popup should appear (this should appear the first time you are setting it up). Screenshot:

    

3. Select a blogging provider. In this case it should be “WordPress“. Then click Next.

   

4. New WordPress account dialogbox should appear:

    

5. Enter the wordpress account information and click ok. No need to click picture options. WordPress automatically takes care of it.

     Note: if your wordpress is installed in a subfolder make sure you include the subfolder name in the path. For example: http://yourdomain.com/wp/xmlrpc.php  

6. Once the successful connection is made the following information should appear:

  That’s it! Now you can start writing your blog 

And if you wanted to open up your existing blogs click on the Open Existing button: