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Trying to get the most out of your blog?  Want to inform a lot of XML-RPC site update services of your latest posts?  Well you need to enable a few things in your WordPress wp-admin and then use a long list of sites that have been compiled for your convenience.  But first, you need to have the following updated in your Settings.  Go into Settings -> Writing and look for the following:

To post to WordPress from a desktop blogging client or remote website that uses the Atom Publishing Protocol or one of the XML-RPC publishing interfaces you must enable them below.

Remote Publishing

To post to WordPress from a desktop blogging client or remote website that uses the Atom Publishing Protocol or one of the XML-RPC publishing interfaces you must enable them below.

Then you need to add the list of update sites for XML-RPC to this part further below in the same section.

Update Services

When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the following site update services. For more about this, see Update Services on the Codex. Separate multiple service URLs with line breaks.

Here is the list:

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