<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Excerpt functionality *is* built in to the xmlrpc in wordpress, you just have to send it the mt_excerpt header, as mentioned on this list previously.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you edit the blogging.rb file in the blogging bundle support directory (or make a copy in a new bundle) and add:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>@post['mt_excerpt'] = @headers['excerpt'] if @headers['excerpt']</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>around line 224 (it's not especially important, as long as it's in that block) it will send a header in this format:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Excerpt: your text without line breaks</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You'll want to edit the language file to include the [Ee]xcerpt header so it highlights properly.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Then you'll want to add </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>doc += "Excerpt: #{self.post['mt_excerpt']}\n" if self.post['mt_excerpt'] && (self.post['mt_excerpt'] != '')</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>at about line 400 in blogging.rb so that it will retrieve the excerpts when you fetch the post or after posting.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That's it. Excerpts should work for you then.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brett</DIV><DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brett Terpstra : Art Director</DIV><DIV>Circle Six Design, Inc.</DIV><DIV>111 Riverfront Dr, Suite 204</DIV><DIV>..................................................</DIV><DIV>p: 507.459.4398</DIV><DIV> 877.858.4332</DIV><DIV>f: 1.866.540.3063</DIV><DIV>e: <A href="mailto:brett@circlesixdesign.com">brett@circlesixdesign.com</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.circlesixdesign.com">http://www.circlesixdesign.com</A></DIV><DIV>..................................................</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>