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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:02:23+00:00

I was unsure as to how to title this question… Basically, I’ve downloaded some

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I was unsure as to how to title this question…

Basically, I’ve downloaded some “Desktop Blog Applications” which is a desktop applications that lets you post to your blog. You get the usual headline/text form and you can add images and stuff.

When using these application, you get to set up your blog settings, your URL, and then tell it what “blog software” your blog uses and then it will use the correct API’s for your blog to fetch your blogs, create a new one, edit old ones and so on.

Well, I’m the author of an (PHP) CMS and I’m not utilizing any pre-made blogging framework but have written my own that uses my databases and my ways to handle members, replies, comments and such.

Well, is there ANY way to build a bridge between any of these blog softwares and my software so that I could tell users that they can download “MarsEdit” (for instance) and then point it to url X and set it to blog software Y and then it will just work?

What I need is some form a middle-layer API that I can use to send and receive blog content from and to the users application according to an open and nice/competent blog interface.

Any ideas, or am I not making any sense?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should definitely implement a standard XML-RPC API for your CMS. Then, any software compatible with this API will be able to interface your blog.

    I suggest implementing MetaWeblog : http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi. It is supported by all the major blogging softwares and websites.

    From Wikipedia :

    The MetaWeblog API is an application
    programming interface created by
    software developer Dave Winer that
    enables weblog entries to be written,
    edited, and deleted using web
    services.

    The API is implemented as an XML-RPC
    web service with three methods whose
    names describe their function:
    metaweblog.newPost(),
    metaweblog.getPost() and
    metaweblog.editPost(). These methods
    take arguments that specify the blog
    author’s username and password along
    with information related to an
    individual weblog entry.

    As said in other answers, the alternative to MetaWeblog is AtomPub (The Atom Publishing Protocol).

    IMHO, being more complex and having more features, AtomPub is more complicated to implement. Moreover, I think that MetaWeblog is more widely implemented than AtomPub, and has a crapload of compatible clients.

    EDIT: Here a a few implementations examples :

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