Apathy Online

Many iPhone users have not been able to add their blog to the iPhone due to the client not being able to find the xmlrpc.php file. Because there is no way to man­u­ally set the loca­tion of the file, if the client can­not find it, it errors out, telling you to con­tact Word­Press sup­port. Well, I can­not wait for Word­Press sup­port, and found an easy tem­po­rary fix (until a new ver­sion of the client is released). The prob­lem is with the theme.

In every theme, this line should be just before the tag: < ? wp_head(); ?>. If this line is there, but you still get the xml-rpc error, then the client is hav­ing trou­ble see­ing it (well, the ren­dered ver­sion, which has the loca­tion of your xmlrpc.php). Easy solu­tion? Change your theme.

The client only needs to see the loca­tion when you add the blog, but never checks it again. Change your theme to the default Word­Press theme. Then add your blog to your iPhone Word­Press client. Then change your theme back. It works!

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