WordPress 2.1 and ecto 2.4.2 Workaround

Since updating to WordPress 2.1, I have been unable to refresh my posts stored in ecto 2.4.2 (a great OS X and Windows blogging client). Each time I press the refresh button, I would end up with the OS X spinning beach ball loop and eventually I would have to quit out of ecto.

Digging around in the ecto support forums, I came across the fix to the problem. It seems with the update to WordPress 2.1 they modified the xmlrpc.php file. Unfortunately, the changes do not conform to the MovableType API specs, which broke communication between ecto and the new version of WordPress.

In order to fix the problem, either wait for WordPress 2.1.1 or make the following string replacement in the xmlrpc.php file. Search and replace the following:

‘categoryId’ => $catid,

change to:

‘categoryId’ => (string) $catid,

I just tried the fix and can confirm it works. If you have not checked out ecto before, give a test run. It is a great blogging client.