Title: Enabling XML-RPC
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Enabling XML-RPC

 *  [caroline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/makeupedia/)
 * (@makeupedia)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-xml-rpc/)
 * I have enabled XML RPC and Atom in Settings – Writing – Remote Publishing.
 * But is it supposed to say “preferred=”false” here then? [http://makeupedia.se/xmlrpc.php?rsd](http://makeupedia.se/xmlrpc.php?rsd)
 *     ```
       <rsd xmlns="http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/rsd" version="1.0">
       <service>
       <engineName>WordPress</engineName>
       <engineLink>http://wordpress.org/</engineLink>
       <homePageLink>http://makeupedia.se</homePageLink>
       <apis>
       <api name="WordPress" blogID="1" preferred="true" apiLink="http://makeupedia.se/xmlrpc.php"/>
       <api name="Movable Type" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://makeupedia.se/xmlrpc.php"/>
       <api name="MetaWeblog" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://makeupedia.se/xmlrpc.php"/>
       <api name="Blogger" blogID="1" preferred="false" apiLink="http://makeupedia.se/xmlrpc.php"/>
       <api name="Atom" blogID="" preferred="false" apiLink="http://makeupedia.se/wp-app.php/service"/>
       </apis>
       </service>
       </rsd>
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewrgn/)
 * (@andrewrgn)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-xml-rpc/#post-3072610)
 * Yes, the `preferred="false"` on all except one of the <api> lines is normal with
   the `xmlrcp.php?rsd` URL (one of the them should have `preferred="true"`, and
   does.)
 * This URL is for a [Really Simple Discovery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Simple_Discovery)
   query, which allows a client to discover how it can interact with your blog, 
   and WordPress is responding with a list of different interfaces it supports –
   WordPress’s own API, and the Movable Type, MetaWeblog, Blogger, and Atom interfaces–
   and indicating which is it preferred one. The WordPress software would, unsurprisingly,
   prefer that clients used the WordPress-specific interface, but it has a few other
   interfaces that it offers if clients would rather use those.
 *  Thread Starter [caroline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/makeupedia/)
 * (@makeupedia)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-xml-rpc/#post-3072680)
 * Ok, thanks for answer!
    I can’t see my pingbacks/trackbacks in the comments field,
   so apparently this was not the problem!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enabling-xml-rpc/#post-3072680)
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