Cannot add my blog in Windows Live Writer

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  romitmehta · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm

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  I have 3 private blogs under one username, one of which is also mapped to a custom domain.

  When I try to set up the account for the custom domain (both as domain.com as well as blogname.wordpress.com), I keep getting only one blog to show up in Windows Live Writer.

  Any idea why that is so?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 10:21 pm

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  Yes. Please think about why we purchase domain mapping and what it does. We purchase it to map from a .wordpress.com sub-domain URL to a domain URL. That’s exactly what domain mapping does. When the .wordpress.com subdomain links are clicked there is a seamless redirect to the the domain URLs so all you need is the single URL — not two URLs.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/#setup-windows-live-writer-2011

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  romitmehta · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 10:29 pm

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  Thanks, @timethief.

  I have gone through those steps. The issue I am facing is, no matter what I try, WLW only picks up my first blog. The blog I want to set up is the latest one (the third).

  All three blogs are private, FYI.

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  romitmehta · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 10:40 pm

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  @timethief, looks like it may have something to do with the privacy setting. I was able to add the blog by temporarily making that third blog public.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 25, 2012 at 11:01 pm

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  Thanks for the update on that.