Publish Joomla blog or Article via Microsoft Word directly – metablog api

Wonderful people have posted in a forum some bits that put together the ability to connect Microsoft Word 2007/2010 and other blog publishing software to your Joomla site. I wanted to put it all in one place and help people get this rolling – this is a free and simple enhancement that helps you put content on your site in a much faster/easier way.

Download the plugin from us, or the internet.
Go into your Joomla site backend administrator
1. Global Configuration -> System, Enable Web Services (ON)
Plugins -> turn OFF the XML RPC plugin that is on by default
Install the metablog plugin (linked above)
Publish and configure the plugin by clicking on it in the plugin page of the admin tool
Open Microsoft Word
1. Write an article
2. Share/Publish – to Blog
3. New blog account
4. Type: OTHER
5. Type: change from Atom to MetaBlog API
6. In URL: http://{yourdomain}/xmlrpc/index.php
7. Username: your username
Start having fun!

Will update this in the future with video tutorials..

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+1 #6 Jimdoria 2011-09-29 15:12

I tried this on Joomla 1.7 after having great success on 1.5. Turns out Joomla has "fixed" web services on 1.7 so well that it's now completely broken.

It is no longer possible to complete Step 2 in Joomla 1.6/1.7. The Enable Web Services option has been removed. It is no longer part of the basic Joomla Package and any plugins that use it will need to be re-written (from what I can gather.)

See this thread for details (assuming you're a programmer and can make sense of it.) http://docs.joomla.org/Xml-rpc_changes_in_Joomla!_1.6

0 #5 Ziad 2011-08-29 07:12

Hi, this is what I am searching for but the problem is I couldn't find "enable web services" in Joomla 1.7 where can I find it? or how can I do this in other way?
Thanks

0 #4 Martino81 2011-08-23 09:40

Hi there, it sounds great but how will it work with Joomla! 1.6?
I tried to follow your description but already at your point 2.Go into your Joomla site backend administrator
1.Global Configuration -> System, Enable Web Services (ON)
I cant find it, pls help

0 #3 Troy 2011-01-18 21:43

You should be able to make links in word, if that is what you mean -

You highlight a word, hyperlink, and give the FULL URL to the location of the article in joomla.

Do you mean for articles that aren't published on a menu already?

0 #2 Jawad 2011-01-18 11:22

is there anynway we can add link to added articls also from msword

+1 #1 Martintoy 2010-07-09 04:30

Thanks for this howto,
Ive tried to elaborate a bit further in spanish, in my webpage.
http://www.nettix.com.pe/subir_contenido_desde_el_escritorio.html

Thanks and regards

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