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Ecto 2.0 for Windows and Ultimate Tag Warrior revisited
Posted by Kelly Adams on May 23rd, 2006 
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I mentioned previously that I had installed Ultimate Tag Warrior on my site. In that posting, I implied that I had Ecto for Windows working with UTW. The truth is, it only seemed to be working- in reality, Ecto was creating tags that UTW could work with, but it wasn’t able to read them back in for editing purposes.
It’s been a bit of a struggle getting it to work…
I had started with a hack from Robin Lu purportedly for exactly my purpose: getting Ecto and UTW to talk nicely together. In essence, his solution was to use Ecto’s ability to store/retrieve keywords within the XML “mt_keywords” tag used with the MovableType API. A small change was made to WordPress’ xmlrpc.php file, and everything should have worked. Unfortunately, not quite. Either Robin’s hack never actually worked,
or it only worked with the Mac version of Ecto, or Ecto has changed. In the Windows version of Ecto, the values passed and read via the mt_keywords field must be surrounded by some sort of stop and start string (normally an HTML comment). Further, in my testing each keyword also has to be surrounded by an HTML link tag (E.G.: <a href=>tag</a>) or else Ecto for Windows will fail with an error when reading the tags for the post.
Netting it all out, the basic steps to getting Ecto for Windows Version 2 to work with WordPress 2.0.1 and Ultimate Tag Warrior are:
- << before completing these steps, WordPress and UTW are presumed to be configured and working on your blog server >>
- in your WordPress installation directory, edit /update xmlrpc.php (first preserve/back up a copy of the original)
- there are a few changes- I’ve captured the output of a diff between the edited xmlrpc and the original, as well as a copy of the edited xmlrpc
If all goes well, you should now be able to post blog entries with tags that get inserted/managed via UTW, and Ecto should allow you to view/edit the tags associated with a particular post.
August 21st, 2006 at 8:47 pm
[…] Edit your xmlrpc.php file according to the instructions listed on a post by Kelly Adams. Robin Lu also has some good information for editing your xmlrpc.php file. (Note: The purpose of the xmlrpc.php hacks created by Robin and Kelly were intended to add Ultimate Tag Warrior functionality to Ecto - but it works even better for Writer). Here’s my xmlrpc.php file for reference. […]
August 22nd, 2006 at 7:05 am
[…] I use Christine’s kickass Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for tags on my blog. Infact my theme, K2 comes prepackaged with support for UTW. So, this goes to all the K2 users using Windows Live Writer too. David Brunelle wrote how to make these two killer applications work together based on some existing hacks. His hack involves editing Wordpress xmlrpc.php to add Ultimate Tag Warrior functionality to Windows Live Writer and use its inbuilt keywords section to convert them to tags. This works, but I am not comfortable with the idea of editing any Wordpress files. No offence to David here but there is a simple way for adding tags using Ultimate Tag Warrior and Windows Live Writer. […]
February 8th, 2007 at 12:42 am
This was a big help. I appreciate the info.
May 12th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
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