Windows live writer wont connect to blogger

Anonymous
2015-05-26T22:10:34+00:00

I have been using the windows live writer for years and today it wont let me post into my blogger blog. 

The first error was stating that my user name and password was incorrect so I changed it. It still didn't work and still stating the same issue. I clean/repaired up the windows essentials like other forms said. Now the error message I get is blogger return the following error: Notfound: not found. I uninstalled and reinstalled and it keeps saying the same issue.

Thanks.

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Anonymous
2015-06-02T01:38:24+00:00

please make sure that you use the following steps

  1. Verify you are using http or https for you website.
  2. Add ' @gmail.com ' at the end of your user name.
  3. If your account has 2-step verification enabled then see the following guide to use app specific password rather than your original password.

App specific password generation

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-18T13:47:03+00:00

    Wonderful it worked for me today. Had to turn off 2 step verification to publish to Blogger. Thank so much everyone who has helped on this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-12-18T13:33:18+00:00

    It's done, please download the latest version from http://openlivewriter.org/. The authentication process is straightforward, you'll be redirected to a google.com login in your browser, where you sign in as normal and then agree to allow Open Live Writer access to your blogs and photos, then OLW will let you choose the blog from a list of your blogs. This is more secure than the previous method which required giving WLW your password.

    I've just tried, it works for me and is simpler than ever to setup a Blogger connection.

    Congratulations and many thanks to the new OLW project team and particularly Will Duff for fixing this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T18:05:40+00:00

    Thank you for all the hard work on our behalf! Really appreciate this, and looking forward so much to being able to post again. Hopefully once the new OLW is up and running, we shouldn't experience any further problems with logging in?

    Will we still have to use the Google 2-step authentication process? - and use a special application password? I hope the login process will be simple and straightforward.

    Shoshi

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-15T09:10:08+00:00

    For now just hang in there, in the interim you'll need to use an alternative publishing tool or go to blogger.com to post.

    The issue is currently being fixed in Open Live Writer, there has been progress even in the last few hours, so hopefully it won't be too long before it's ready. You can find updates to the work here: https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter/pull/101

    It's not directly related to Windows 8 support, the Blogger authentication issue affects everyone. That said, apparently the OLW team are focusing on Windows 10 although it should continue to work OK on Win 7 & 8 as well.

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