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.
In my previous post, I shared some feedback on the WP-API 1.0 release based on a weekend of evaluation. Since then I’ve had conversations with several people and done more experimentation, and wanted to share some revised feedback.
Recently the WP-API team released version 1.0 of their new JSON-based API for WordPress. I’ve been following their progress from a distance, but now that it is under consideration for inclusion into WordPress core I thought it was time to take a closer look.
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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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…
