Saturday, December 31, 2005

Making Flock connect to your Blogger/Blogspot web log

Click the feather-pen icon in Flock, and do this when the dialog box appears:

Choose "ATOM API" from the API menu.

Flock will have filled in your blog number already.

For the URL to your blog, enter this:

https://www.blogger.com/atom/5810332

Use your own blog number in place of 5810332 above (that's my number).

Note, the "s" in "https", above! Important! Also, you may be able to use "plant" in place of "www" in the URL above.

Then, flock will ask for the weblog's username and password, so that submitting new weblog entries will work from Flock.

Addendum

Sometimes Flock will lose the URL immediately after this, so it still doesn't work. To check this, go to the main browser window and select "Options" from the "Tools" menu. Click the "Blogging" settings icon. Double click your weblog's name. This brings up the settings about your web log. Notice the URL! You probably have to re-enter the correct https URL as shown above. Don't forget to use your weblog number, not mine. Click "Save".

You probably don't have to, but anytime I make major settings changes like this, I quit out of the browser and re-run it. Flock and Firefox probably don't need this, but it can't hurt. (I learned that from painful experiences with Internet Explorer - forgive me. :) )

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