Ecto, WordPress 2.x, and WebDAV

I've been thinking a little bit on my blogging workflow, and since Bradley University owns a site license for ecto, I decided to start posting via that tool when I'm at my MacBook Pro. I'm also going to investigate some blogging tools for my Windows Mobile phone next, since I already have it set up to automatically photoblog through Flickr.

Any recent version of ecto will not work if you're hosting your own version of WordPress, however. It turns out that there's a problem in WordPress's 2.x XML-RPC interface. Luckily, getting your WordPress blog working with Ecto again is a simple matter of this simple one-line code change in your xmlrpc.php file. I hope that this saves you a little trouble if you're experiencing communication issues between ecto and WordPress 2.

While changing this file around, I also discovered one nice thing about 1and1's shared Linux hosting plans: they have WebDAV support turned on by default. The code change mentioned above ended up being a simple matter of using "Connect to Server...", mounting my 1and1 site in the Finder, and changing around the PHP file in TextWrangler.