WordPress

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.

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.

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.

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.