Title: Request to plugin developers
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Request to plugin developers
* [ecto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecto/)
* (@ecto)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/)
* When you develop a plugin, dear developers, please PLEASE test it during XMLRPC
as well. I have had several support requests from my ecto users about failed
postings due to installed plugins. Please test if your plugin works when a new
post is made or edited via XMLRPC. WordPress will also call your plugin during
XMLRPC and some functions may not be available then. Here’s a recent example
from a user:
* Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_home_path() in /home/ensight/
public_html/cooking/wp-content/plugins/sitemap.php on line 402
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* [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
* (@podz)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265189)
* Copied to the hackers list.
* [Ryan Duff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanduff/)
* (@ryanduff)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265199)
* Are you giving us free copies to test with? Why should I have to buy your program
to test my plugins and make sure it doesn’t break anything? If you’re giving
free copies to test with, I’ll test mine.
* [themarco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themarco/)
* (@themarco)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265200)
* Dude… XMLRPC isn’t some commercial package that someone would need to provide
free copies of 😉
* [Ryan Duff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanduff/)
* (@ryanduff)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265206)
* No, but Ecto is. It costs 17.99
* [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
* (@cypher)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265213)
* Well if plugin developers have to test the XMLRPC feature, the using the free
[W.Bloggar](http://wbloggar.com) would work. We wouldn’t have to test the blogging
client, just the server side interaction.
* Regards
* Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
* (@macmanx)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265226)
* Ecto has a 21 day trial if that makes you feel any better.
* Honestly, I don’t understand why this request is so upsetting. The OP made a
clearly legitimate request that does highlight a major issue with some of the
currently released plugins.
* There are a few plugin available which break the XMLRPC functionality. And, when
your plugin breaks the XMLRPC functionality, it prevents the user of your plugin
from using any [third-party weblog clients](http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client),
including ones which the user may have paid $17.99 for. This is a major issue
and I would also appreciate it if plugin developers tested their plugins against
XMLRPC.
* If you are plugin developer and would like to test your plugin against XMLRPC,
feel free to use [W.Bloggar](http://wbloggar.com/) (free, Windows), [Ecto](http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/)(
21 day trial, Mac and Windows), [MarsEdit](http://ranchero.com/marsedit/) (30
day trial, Mac), any of the Dashboard Widgets listed [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client)(
free, Mac), any of the Linux weblog clients listed [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Weblog_Client)(
free, Linux), or [Plogit](http://plogit.sourceforge.net/) (free, PalmOS).
* Thread Starter [ecto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecto/)
* (@ecto)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265364)
* Thanks, macmanx, couldn’t have said it better. It’s indeed only the server-side
interaction via XML-RPC that is at issue here and not the blog client. One could
even write a simple PHP script to post a test entry with XML-RPC.
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* 7 replies
* 6 participants
* Last reply from: [ecto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecto/)
* Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-to-plugin-developers/#post-265364)
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