Greyhead.net

I just set up ScribeFire to let me post to this site - and I spent a very frustrating half-hour because I missed a vital step . . .

ScribeFire is a FireFox extension that allows you to post to your web-site directly from your browser. ScribeFire has built in support for several popular blogging platforms but does not directly support Joomla.
This has been solved by a plug-in written by Justo DeRiviera - his instructions are here but they miss that vital step so I thought I'd re-write them to remind myself how not to waste so much time with my next website.

1. In your Joomla site admin go to GlobalConfiguration | System. In the System Settings box set 'Enable Web Services' to 'Yes'.
2. Download and install Justo's MetaWeb Joomla plugin
3. Download and install the RSD Joomla plugin
4. Go to the PlugIn manager and enable both plugins, at the same time check that the Blogger PlugIn is disabled - Justo says this is being fixed in Joomla but better safe than sorry.
5. Install the ScribeFire extension in FireFox and re-start FireFox to enable it.
6. Click the little yellow ScribeFire icon at the bottom left of the window and click past the advertising until you get to a page that will allow you to add a new blog.
7. Enter the url of your site home page - http://greyhead.net here.
8. Enter a valid username and password and hopefully autoconfiguration will plug you in.
9. If autoconfig doesn't work then you can set the Type of blog to MetaWeblog; and the XML-RPC url to http://example.com/xmlrpc/index.php