2010
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WordPress XML-RPC – MetaWeblog API
Oct 8
WordPress’ XML-RPC system is built on other people’s APIs, which makes its documentation frustratingly fragmented. A reference for the metaWeblog calls (newPost, editPost, getPost and more) with their parameters and return values.
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WordPress XML-RPC – Using the API
Sept 24
Turn on remote publishing, point your client at xmlrpc.php rather than the blog URL, and say hello. The basics of sending and receiving data through WordPress’ XML-RPC interface, using its two built-in demo methods.
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WordPress XML-RPC – An Introduction
Sept 17
You can write to, read and administer a WordPress site from anywhere, through an XML-RPC interface that’s poorly documented and spans five different APIs. The start of a comprehensive guide to all of them.
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Google Reader – Revisited
Jul 16
Google changed the authentication on its Reader API, breaking my PHP class and upsetting users of my WordPress plug-in. The fix: send the Auth key in an Authorization header instead of an SID cookie. Here’s the updated _getToken() method.
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Google Reader API – A Brief Tutorial
May 21
I wanted my Google Reader feeds in my WordPress dashboard, but the best tutorial I could find was written in C#. So I built my own Google Reader client in PHP. Here’s how to authenticate and start making calls.
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XML-RPC
Mar 3
Last night I built a custom XML-RPC server so my WordPress plug-ins, running on several hundred sites, can phone home when they break. I’m calling it “Elliot,” after the main character in E.T.