This weekend at WordCamp San Francisco, there has been much discussion and advertising for the nascent JSON API. I noticed some confusion among the audience and some unclear answers from speakers, so here’s a quick comparison of the new JSON API versus the existing XML-RPC API.
WordPress devs in the Pacific Northwest, I’m going to be giving a talk this month on using WordPress’ XML-RPC and RESTful APIs. I’ll be doing it twice, first in Seattle on the 11th and then in Portland on the 15th. If you’re interested, please find details and RSVP below.
Portland: XML-RPC and RESTful APIs: Breaking Down the WordPress Silo
Seattle: July WordPress Meetup
Today I gave a talk on “Integrating with WordPress via XML-RPC” at WordCamp NYC:
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As WordPress 3.4 approaches RC and final release, the new features in the XML-RPC API have finally stabilized. For those Python users out there, I’ve updated my Python binding library to take advantage of the new functionality.
As part of the release, I spent the time to write proper documentation; be sure to check out the examples section! The library is now also compatible with Python 3 (in addition to Python 2.6+).
If you are currently using a previous release (1.x) of the library, be warned that 2.0 is not backwards compatible. I’ve removed all but one use of legacy Blogger/metaWeblog methods, which has caused the posts module and several others to change significantly. See the changelog for full details.
And, of course, you can download it on PyPI or directly through GitHub.
WordPress 3.4 has finally hit beta! Since full changelog/release notes are not yet available, I want to recap the improvements in XML-RPC functionality for this release here.
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I’ve released another update of my XML-RPC modernization plug-in for WordPress. This release incorporates the work from Ticket #18429, and adds new wp.newPost, wp.editPost and wp.deletePost methods. With these new methods, full CRUD capabilities for posts of any type (posts, pages, and any registered custom post types) are available through XML-RPC.
Today I released an update (version 0.6) to my XML-RPC modernization plugin for WordPress, and have put it up on the WordPress.org plugin repository. I have also released a branch of python-wordpress-xmlrpc that supports the new functionality provided by the WordPress plugin.
Tonight I’ve open sourced the current state of my WordPress XML-RPC plugin containing a slew of new methods. I’m going through the motions to get it on the WordPress.org plugin repository and will update this post with a link when it’s up there. Read More…
After half a year of complaining about the state of XML-RPC in WordPress, I’ve tried to get the stars aligned for some significant improvements in the next release (3.4). The 3.4 development cycle has just begun after the release of 3.3 last week, and I am currently on winter break until spring semester classes start on January 9. Some of the core developers have shown interest in seeing XML-RPC improved, so I hope to make their job easier by doing the legwork on patches.
As of today (12/22/2011), there are 72 open tickets in the WordPress core Trac XML-RPC component. While I’d love to see them all fixed, there is limited amount of time and so we must prioritize. This post represents my current priorities and plans. Read More…
Prior to the 3.0 release of WordPress, I often dismissed WordPress as “just a tool for blogging.” Much to the credit of the core developers and community, WordPress has become much better suited for projects that are more complex than reverse-chronological blogging.
But when I try to use WordPress as a CMS, one of my biggest remaining stumbling blocks is the difficulty of integrating with other systems.
