xmlrpc Error Verifying Site for Gravatar

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  directsponsor · Member · Nov 22, 2015 at 2:20 am

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  Hi,

  I tried to connect (or verify) my site in Gravatar. I put in the url, username and password, but it returned

  “Failed to locate XML-RPC API
  Something went wrong when trying to locate the XML-RPC API on your blog. Please log into your WordPress admin panel, then go to Settings > Writing > Remote Publishing and check the box next to ‘Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.’

  I followed those instructions, but there is no “remote publishing” section in Settings> Writing. So I searched around and found that wp.com has xmlrpc on by default. I sent my browser to http://directsponsor.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php and got “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.” so it seems to be listening, at least…

  Anyway, how can I make sure it’s actually working properly? I know if I ask gravatar they’ll refer me back to WP unless I’ve found there’s definitely nothing wrong at this end.

  Thanks for any help,
  Andy

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

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  directsponsor · Member · Nov 22, 2015 at 2:28 am

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  Correction, the error I got when putting in http://directsponsor.org/ was:

  No blogs found
  Either your WordPress blog is not responding, or it’s not listing any blogs against the account details you entered. Please check that the username/password you entered are for an account which is associated with at least one blog.

  The error quoted in my original post was what I got when I entered http://directsponsor.org/xmlrpc.php

  Either way, it wasn’t getting what it wanted.
  Sorry bout that!
  Andy

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  directsponsor · Member · Nov 22, 2015 at 2:30 am

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  ok sorry again, not directsponsor.org, http://directsponsor.wordpress.com/
  I’m getting beyond typing, must sleep.