Simon (Darkside) Jackson

Nope, a direct connection. I also noted that it couldn't detect it as a Wordpress site on the initial setup. When you tested @ScottIsAFool , Did it detect or ask...

What is very odd. Is that if I select "HTTP" as the address, the blog detection screen appears. However it skips it when I correctly select "HTTPS". I'm checking through...

After a lot of hacking (and bringing down) my site, I may have an answer for why it may not be working (and it's probably not me) https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-on-xmlrpcphp/ According to...

Always ready to test anything @ScottIsAFool . Have a few spare sites to test most blogs / sites 👯‍♂️ Would be good to get an API oAuth connect solution for...

The situation continues. They did find a block on an IP with the site and unblocked access. Browsing to the xmlrpc.php file now reports "only post requests allowed" However, OLW...

Hmm, interesting. I chanced it and selected http instead of https as the url and it actually worked? and posted. So I have a "sort of" work around now", but...

OK, no worries. I'll be ready when you are.

That worked a treat first time. Detected the blog and published successfully. I take it that it's still using the xmlrpc route currently instead of the Wordpress/Jetpack API's.

I've uninstalled the test version you sent twice now. Each time, it detects the blog properly (as you would expect) creates the temporary post (and deletes it) I then post...

Sure, give me two ticks. (and I know what you mean about a fix working "first time") it's also a "first " for me :P