I stole this one from my buddy Russ over at mindingthegaps.com, but I needed a place for me to reference easily, so I’m putting it here.

verify you can connect via ssh to the host
open terminal and type
ssh name@address <return>
password <return>
yes <return> (adding it to your know_hosts)
exit <return>

create your id_rsa.pub
open terminal and type
ssh-keygen  <return>
*leave_blank* <return>
*leave_blank* <return>

rename your id_rsa.pub so you know it is yours
open terminal and type
cd ~/.ssh <return>
cat id_rsa.pub >> id_rsaXXX.pub (XXX can be anything to identify it is you–name, computer name, etc) <return>

Copy your id_rsaXXX.pub file to the remote computer
open terminal and type
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsaXXX.pub login@address:~/.ssh/ <return>
password <return>
exit <return>

adding your id_rsaXXX.pub to authorized_keys
open terminal and type
ssh login@address <return>
password <return>
cd ~/.ssh <return>
ls <return>
you should see your id_rsaXXX.pub file in the list
cat id_rsaXXX.pub >> authorized_keys

test your ssh connection
exit out of terminal and restart
ssh login@address <return>
should connect without typing a password now.

I got this gem from Ivan Kristianto’s site, www.ivankristianto.com.

I’m posting the code here b/c there is a bug in the way he displayed it.   But this is verbatim from his post here:

There are many ways to publish WordPress blog post. You can publish from the WordPress admin interface, you can publish via email and also you can publish it via XML-RPC. So what is XML-RPC? XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism. Which mean we can call the WordPress procedure remotely. And this will make WordPress easily integrate with other system.

To enable publish via XML-RPC in WordPress follow these stepes:
1. Login to your WordPress admim
2. Go to Settings > Writing > Remote Publishing
3. Enable Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols. checkbox.

To try it you can use this code below:

function wpPostXMLRPC($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username,$password,$category,$keywords='',$encoding='UTF-8') {
    $title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
    $keywords = htmlentities($keywords,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);

    $content = array(
        'title'=>$title,
        'description'=>$body,
        'mt_allow_comments'=>0,  // 1 to allow comments
        'mt_allow_pings'=>0,  // 1 to allow trackbacks
        'post_type'=>'post',
        'mt_keywords'=>$keywords,
        'categories'=>array($category)
    );
    $params = array(0,$username,$password,$content,true);
    $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('metaWeblog.newPost',$params);
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
    $results = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $results;
}

To test it:

$title="Lorem ipsum";
$body="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed vestibulum pharetra mi quis rhoncus. Mauris lacinia neque id lacus lobortis a dictum augue molestie. Proin ut elit velit, in faucibus neque. Aliquam libero odio, bibendum non tempor eu, sodales vel felis.";

$rpcurl="http://your_wordpress_blog_url/xmlrpc.php";
$username="Wordpress admin username here";
$password="Wordpress admin password here";
$categories="category name here";

echo wpPostXMLRPC($title,$body,$rpcurl,$username,$password,$categories,'');

With this XML-RPC it is possible for you to write article offline and then publish it with XML-RPC. Here some good tools for that:

1. Windows Live Writer (Windows Only)
2. BlogJet (Windows Only) 3. Blogo (Mac Only)
3. MarsEdit (Mac Only)
4. BloGTK (Linux Only)
5. Scribefire (Firefox Add-on / All platform)
6. Flock (Web Browser / All platform)

I’m currently working on way to use this, along with AppleScript to automagically update a WP blog so our editors can easily do this without knowing how to operate in the WP environment.

I’m currently testing some different techniques for publishing to wordpress from the command line or via script. This post is done doing just that. I will post a follow up article with links to where I got this from. If you read this, then in worked.