After testing, fixing and even contacting my wonderful host providers, the problem with LiveWriter not posting proper HTML tags in WordPress posts has been resolved by making a simple adjustment with the hosting company.
Problem:
If you are using Windows Live Writer to post to your website blog and for some reason tags are not displaying properly, there are a number of items to review.
The best resource online for this is at
http://www.mindtweaks.com/wordpress/?p=233
Because each hosting company is different, you should examine the following:
- xmlrpc.php file for WordPress – check for trailing spaces at end of file
- try the .htaccess method as outlined in the link above (produced 500 error code for me)
- Deactivate plugins in LiveWriter (some are a bit buggy)
- Reinstall WordPress, especially if you did it the Fantasico method.
- contact your hosting company
WLW | WordPress | PHP4 vs PHP5
What did work for me on one particular hosting company was changing what the ".php" file extension will be processed by – PHP4 or PHP5.
If you are lucky (some really are not!) to be using cPanel, you should see this setting in your control panel.
Select PHP Configuration : PHP4
Test and Done.
Once again, more troubleshooting details can be found at the MindTweaks Post.
