2.1 The Settings
While each sports its own particular preferences, all the
Blogger API-based applications hold certain API-specific settings in
common, usually:
- Username
-
The username with which you
identify yourself to your blogging
system.
- Password
-
The password associated with your username.
- XML-RPC URL
-
The URL of your blog system's Blogger API
interface (the default is often Blogger's
http://plant.blogger.com/api/RPC2/).
Sometimes this is broken up into Server and Path settings (e.g.,
Server http://plant.blogger.com,
Path /api/RPC2/).
- Weblog ID
-
Many blog systems support multiple weblogs — for example,
with only one installation of Movable Type, you can publish as many
different weblogs as you like. Some desktop clients understand the
concept of multiple weblogs and will let you select the blog to which
a particular post is to go. Others require you to hardcode the ID of
a particular blog. A Blogger ID is a string, such as
myblog, while Movable Type uses numerical IDs.
Figure 2-1 shows a fairly representative
configuration panel. Beyond these standard options are features such
as Ping Weblogs.com, which notifies http://www.weblogs.com each time you post a new
story. Check the desktop client's documentation for
details of such features.
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