The current Windows Live Writer apparently does not have an automatic setup for Movable Type blogs.
I say apparently because my failure to set up the account access correctly was a barrier to discovering otherwise before I created my own custom wlwmanifest.xml file, thinking that was the problem. For all I know, Windows Live Writer would learn enough from the rsd.xml file that Movable Type places at the blog location.
Having set up one that seems to be working as expected, I have also arranged to share the same one on every blog I set up on an nfoCentrale site.
The current form used by this blog (and all others automatically) is at blog-URI/wlwmanifest.xml.
I am not so confident about the items at the end of the manifest. I don’t think the various links are working. It will take some experimentation to determine what the correct manual settings are.
Here is the one in use today, for posterity and accounting for any further changes.
(One future improvement in my use of Windows Live Writer will be finding a decent code colorization.)
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!-- xmlmanifest.xml 0.01 Windows Live Writer manifest for nfoCentrale Movable Type blogs -->
<manifest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wlw/manifest/weblog">
<options>
<clientType>MovableType</clientType>
<!-- 0.00 I am not including options that are default for MovableType and that
I want to leave enabled. The following are to disable unwanted
cases and to add others that matter.
--> <supportsExtendedEntries>No</supportsExtendedEntries> <!-- 0.00 Don't want. -->
<!-- 0.00 <supportsCategoriesInline>Yes</supportsCategoriesInline> Don't see why -->
<supportsHierarchicalCategories>Yes</supportsHierarchicalCategories>
<supportsNewCategories>No</supportsNewCategories> <!-- 0.00 Don't wnat. -->
<supportsNewCategoriesInline>No</supportsNewCategoriesInline> <!-- 0.00 Don't wnat. -->
<supportsKeywords>No</supportsKeywords>
<!-- 0.00 <supportsSlug>Yes</supportsSlug> -->
<!-- 0.00 <supportsPages>Yes</supportsPages> -->
<supportsEmptyTitles>No</supportsEmptyTitles> <!-- 0.00 Don't wnat. -->
<requiresXHTML>Yes</requiresXHTML> <!-- 0.00 MT-assumed. -->
<supportsScripts>Yes</supportsScripts>
<supportsEmbeds>Yes</supportsEmbeds>
</options>
<weblog>
<serviceName>Movable Type</serviceName>
<homepageLinkText>View site</homepageLinkText>
<adminLinkText>View Dashboard</adminLinkText>
<adminUrl>mt.cgi</adminUrl>
<postEditingUrl>mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id={blog-id}&id={post-id}</postEditingUrl>
<!-- 0.00 <mt:AdminScript encode_xml="1"> replaced by mt.cgi in both
<adminUrl> and <postEditingUrl>since this file is not being
pre-processed by Movable Type. This file produced manually.
-->
</weblog>
</manifest>
<!-- 0.01 2010-05-30-18:16 Share between nfoCentrale Status and Spanner Wingnut. This should only be
branched if there is some need to have different URLs.
0.00 2010-05-30-16:03 Create Initial Customization. The admin-related URLs might not
be correct. They may need to be absolute.
-->
<!-- *** end of wlwmanifest.xml *** --> |
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