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TextMate is pretty incredible. I just started reading the book on it and if I can ever get used to the 8 million key combinations I’m sure it’ll shave minutes off of my year. Really, though, I’m amazed everytime I see a screencast where someone is using TextMate and the code just seems to blast out with only a few keystrokes.

After reading the section of the book about blogging with TextMate I went to their site to find out more about that feature. Whether you’re a nerd or not, you have to admit this screencast is cool.

So long story short, I tried it with this WordPress blog and it kept failing when I tried to Fetch Post. I was hoping someone had the answer and someone did, but it took me an hour to find it. So if you’re getting an error like “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only”, here’s what you have to do.

Edit xmlrpc.php in your main wordpress directory and add the following line before the first mention of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA:

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = file_get_contents("php://input");

The root of the problem is this bug in php 5.2.2, if you’re interested in keeping track of when it gets fixed.