Title: engtech's Replies | WordPress.org --- # engtech [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [Akismet Broken in WordPress 2.5?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/akismet-broken-in-wordpress-25/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/akismet-broken-in-wordpress-25/#post-726112) * It’s broken on WordPress.com also. * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566728) * I’m still having huge headaches with base64 characters killing XMLRPC::Lite in perl. I’ve tried out XMLRPC::PurePerl and XML::RPC instead, but both of those packages have even more issues than XMLRPC::Lite. * I found one hack on the net for XMLRPC::Lite that “kinda” got it to work, but it ended up corrupting a lot of the Base64 characters on my blog into something weird. * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [WP2.2 email gone awry?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp22-email-gone-awry/) * [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp22-email-gone-awry/#post-566717) * This is really weird especially considering they just added support for this to wordpress.com * [http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/05/23/domain-mapping-and-email/](http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/05/23/domain-mapping-and-email/) * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566698) * solution is not to pass the dateCreated field. * base64 characters can cause problems as well, but that is more of an issue with XMLRPC::Lite in Perl. * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566666) * WOW. If you try to take the getRecentPosts response and pass it unmodified into metaWeblog.editPosts it gets REALLY screwed up because of time zones. Which breaks your URLs. * 82c82 < [http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/old-post-2/ [http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2005/09/10/old-post-2/2005-09-11 03:46:21 — > 2005- 09-10 23:46:21 104c104 < [http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/old-post-3/ [http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2005/09/10/old-post-3/2005-09-11 03:46:43 — > 2005-09-10 23:46:43 * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566665) * If you are using the metaWeblog.editPost method it won’t edit the post unless the **description** field is set. This prevents a lot of cool tricks like writing scripts to do things like turn off comments on all posts older than 30 days. * What SHOULD happen is if the description isn’t set by the metaWeblog.editPost arguments then it will just use the existing description. editPost can be used for a lot more than just editing posts — it can be used for tweaking any of the settings on a blog. * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566647) * I’ve tried a couple of different pre-wrapped APIs for using MetaWeblogs or MovableType RPC. It seems broken if all you’re trying to do is flip the comment bit. * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566584) * I’m hitting a bug and it won’t let me use a metaweblogs.editPost call. * Looking at the xmlrpc.php source code: [http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/xmlrpc.php](http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/xmlrpc.php) * It’s dying with the oh-so-helpful “Something wrong happened” error. * 1241 $result = wp_update_post($newpost); 1242 if (!$result) { 1243 return new IXR_Error(500, __(‘Sorry, your entry could not be edited. Something wrong happened.’)); 1244 } * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566582) * Weird. Whenever I try to use metaWeblog.editPost and just set the mt_allow_comments field I get an error. * ``` my $call = $self->{ server }->call( 'metaWeblog.editPost', $postid, $self->{ username }, $self->{ password }, { mt_allow_comments => 1 }, 1 # 1 - publish ); set_mt_allow_comments: Sorry, your entry could not be edited. Something wrong happened. at comment.pl line 37 ``` * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566576) * There’s some documentation of what all of the non-WP specific API calls do here: * [http://greggman.com/headlines/2003/2003-08-25-xmlrpc-lite.htm](http://greggman.com/headlines/2003/2003-08-25-xmlrpc-lite.htm) * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566567) * One weird thing… I can’t get a list of all post ids via XML-RPC? I would have thought that would be a common command. * It doesn’t look like there’s much functionality in XML-RPC when it comes to comments. There is the mt_allow_comments field on posts that I should be able to turn on/ off via XML-RPC, but there is no way to find out information about the number of comments on posts. * I think what I’ll do is use the WXR export file as an input, parse it for comment information, and then use XML-RPC to twittle the comments allowed bit automatically. * — * This is what I get running mt.supportedMethods * ``` $VAR1 = [ 'wp.getUsersBlogs', 'wp.getPage', 'wp.getPages', 'wp.newPage', 'wp.deletePage', 'wp.editPage', 'wp.getPageList', 'wp.getAuthors', 'wp.getCategories', 'wp.newCategory', 'wp.suggestCategories', 'wp.uploadFile', 'blogger.getUsersBlogs', 'blogger.getUserInfo', 'blogger.getPost', 'blogger.getRecentPosts', 'blogger.getTemplate', 'blogger.setTemplate', 'blogger.newPost', 'blogger.editPost', 'blogger.deletePost', 'metaWeblog.newPost', 'metaWeblog.editPost', 'metaWeblog.getPost', 'metaWeblog.getRecentPosts', 'metaWeblog.getCategories', 'metaWeblog.newMediaObject', 'metaWeblog.deletePost', 'metaWeblog.getTemplate', 'metaWeblog.setTemplate', 'metaWeblog.getUsersBlogs', 'mt.getCategoryList', 'mt.getRecentPostTitles', 'mt.getPostCategories', 'mt.setPostCategories', 'mt.supportedMethods', 'mt.supportedTextFilters', 'mt.getTrackbackPings', 'mt.publishPost', 'pingback.ping', 'pingback.extensions.getPingbacks', 'demo.sayHello', 'demo.addTwoNumbers', 'wpStats.get_blog_id', 'wpStats.update_bloginfo', 'wpStats.update_postinfo', 'wpStats.ping_blog', 'wpStats.flush_posts' ]; ``` * and here are some samples of the info I can retrieve about a post * ``` { 'permaLink' => 'http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2006/09/11/this-is-a-te st-blog-2/', 'wp_password' => '', 'userid' => '190902', 'mt_allow_pings' => '0', 'mt_excerpt' => 'POST EXCERPT DISPLAYS INSTEAD OF POST', 'wp_author_display_name' => 'engtech', 'dateCreated' => '20060911T00:52:20', 'link' => 'http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2006/09/11/this-is-a-test-bl og-2/', 'wp_slug' => 'this-is-a-test-blog-2', 'mt_allow_comments' => '0', 'categories' => [ 'This is a really really really long category name', 'Child C', 'Category w/ Description' ], 'description' => 'Hi there, welcome to //engtech\'s little corner of the Internet for testing out themes on WordPress.com before switching them to my blog. Jump directly t o the HTML test. Comments are off for this posts, but it does have comments and should display th em. This post has an excerpt.', 'postid' => '4', 'wp_author_id' => '190902', 'title' => 'Comments off, excerpt test.', 'mt_text_more' => '' }, { 'permaLink' => 'http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/old-post-3/' , 'wp_password' => '', 'userid' => '190902', 'mt_allow_pings' => '0', 'mt_excerpt' => '', 'wp_author_display_name' => 'engtech', 'dateCreated' => '20050911T03:46:43', 'link' => 'http://wptheme.wordpress.com/2005/09/11/old-post-3/', 'wp_slug' => 'old-post-3', 'mt_allow_comments' => '0', 'categories' => [ 'Uncategorized' ], 'description' => 'Creating post archive', 'postid' => '10', 'wp_author_id' => '190902', 'title' => 'Old Post #3', 'mt_text_more' => '' }, ``` * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566562) * Just found the latest documentation of MT XML-RPC. * All existing links to it were broken because Six Apart did a reorg. * [http://www.sixapart.com/developers/xmlrpc/movable_type_api/](http://www.sixapart.com/developers/xmlrpc/movable_type_api/) * Forum: [Developing with WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/wp-advanced/) In reply to: [What is XML-RPC good for?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/) * Thread Starter [engtech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engtech/) * (@engtech) * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-is-xml-rpc-good-for/#post-566546) * [WordPress 2.2 release notes](http://swik.net/WordPress/Development+Blog+RSS2+Feed/WordPress+2.2/7hu7) * “A new set of WordPress-specific XML-RPC APIs that allow for editing pages, setting categories, and much more.” * Are these APIs documented anywhere? 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