The Writing Settings group relates to some formatting and feed input options. It contains the following items:

• Size of the post box: How many posts you want your post list to show
• Formatting: Options for converting emoticons to graphics and automatic correction of invalidly nested XHTML
• Default Post Category: The post category that should automatically be used if one is not selected
• Default Link Category: The link category that should automatically be used if one is not selected

Remote publishing – used to post to WordPress from a desktop blogging client or remote website that uses the Atom Publishing protocol or one of the XML-RPC publishing interfaces

• Atom Publishing Protocol: Enables the Atom Publishing Protocol
• XML-RPC: Enables the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols