I have Maintenance Mode installed and it works great at locking out the website. However, it also locks out Windows Live Writer so that I can not post thru the XmlRpc metaWeblog API.
If I check/uncheck the "Apply HTTP header 503..." check box, I get different error messages in Live Writer. I tried to open the xmlrpc.php path with the MM excluded paths but none seemed to help.
Is there some way to set MM so I can still use Live Writer while Maintenance Mode is activated?