Three Things I Tried to Fix a Failing Connection From Ulysses to My Custom WordPress Site
- I didn’t actually try this one (misdirection!) but it could be your issue. Shared hosting can block access to the
/xmlrpc.php file. This plugin can help you get around that.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-xml-rpc/
Be sure to also follow the installation instructions: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rename-xml-rpc/#installation php-xmlrpc is not installed. sudo apt-get install php-xmlrpc. Then sudo service apache2 restart. Not my issue, but kept on looking.php-xml not installed. sudo apt-get install php-xml. Then sudo service apache2 restart. This was my issue!