Hi everyone,
I am using a mac and I would like to use Ulysses to publish to my Wordpress site.
I setup a Wordpress site using one-click setup, and everything is perfect. I’m happy with the outcome, and I don’t think there is any issue on Wordpress end. However, when I try to add the Wordpress account to Ulysses for Mac, it fails.
I contacted the company behind Ulysses and they said, “use SSL, lol.” When I said I tried that with no change, they stopped responding. I have tried asking them for some response and still have received absolutely nothing.
The error it reports is, “Failed to login. Please verify the URL of your blog.” This occurs regardless of whether I put in a correct username and password or not. The thing is, if I use an invalid certificate, it asks if it should trust the invalid certificate, so the error is clearly bogus.
I am wondering if there’s anything I need to enable on the barebones Wordpress setup I currently have to make other services connect? I figured I’d ask, especially if someone had the same plan as I.
Thanks for your help. I paid too much for this app and their silence to their customers has made me sure to not recommend them. On the other hand, digitalocean has been nothing short of awesome every time I’ve asked for help, so I’m hoping someone can help me out even though this is not an issue directly related to them (and the answer may help someone out in the future!).
Thank you!
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I’m having the exact same problem now with Ulysses 2.7.2 and the above command doesn’t work for me. Does anyone else have any further steps to correct the issue?
Thanks a lot! I’m facing the same problem, and I solved with the method above. It really works.
Please also consider fix it in wordpress one-click image.
I am sorry you’re running into these problems and that nobody followed up with you sooner. I am guessing that they encountered the same issue I did. Ulysses only launched WordPress publishing recently and there don’t seem to be (that I could find) any documentation available on how it is connecting or publishing. Because it is only asking for WordPress credentials my guess is that it is using the xmlrpc service in WordPress. This service is also a major target for attackers trying to gain access to WordPress blogs and servers. While we have never blocked access to this by default we have taken some steps to restrict it.
If you are using our new 16.04 based WordPress one-click there is a fail2ban service running which attempts to block malicious access to the xmlrpc.php service. You can disable this to check if it is causing the issue by running
service fail2ban stop.