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In my previous post, I mentioned how the WordPress “Customizable Permalinks” plugin prevents me from using WordPress for iPad (iPod touch, etc), by breaking the XML RPC.

wp-admin –> Settings –> Permalinks linked to more info here ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks ).  Default uses “?p=N” (post number), while pretty permalinks let you specify other formats, such as “yyyy/mm/dd/post-name”.

For yahoo web hosting, this didn’t work, and I think it has something to do with the .htaccess file, or yahoo’s particular web server.  The Yahoo “Customizable Permalinks” plugin makes the permalinks work, but it causes the XML RPC to break.

In any event, I ended up going to “wp-admin/options-permalink.php”, and changing it to Custom Structure “/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/”.

This allowed me to have the prettier custom url structure permalinks, yet still have XML RPC work.  There may be a way to take out the “index.php”, even with Yahoo web hosting, but I didn’t look very hard yet…  So maybe someone else knows the answer?

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