I continue to struggle supporting @WordPress customers who have paid extra for the premium business hosting, and ironically have to jump through hoops to authorize XMLRPC connections. I wish they would fix this. help.red-sweater.com/marsedi…

Two-Step Authentication - Red Sweater Help

When two-step authentication is enabled for a blog, your primary password generally cannot be used to log in with MarsEdit. Instead, you need to configure a special password, usually called an...

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Replying to @danielpunkass @WordPress
This is exactly the reason for OAuth, which moves the two-factor auth problem away from the app developer and into the account provider. IndieAuth is a way to do OAuth for independent sites like WordPress.

Jun 20, 2020 · 4:14 PM UTC