XML-RPC

XML-RPC API that supersedes the legacy Blogger, MovableType, and metaWeblog APIs. Some clients also exist for different programming languages.

Components

• Posts (for posts, pages, and custom post types) – Added in WordPress 3.4
  • wp.getPost
  • wp.getPosts
  • wp.newPost
  • wp.editPost
  • wp.deletePost
  • wp.getPostType
  • wp.getPostTypes
  • wp.getPostFormats
  • wp.getPostStatusList

• Taxonomies (for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies) – Added in WordPress 3.4
  • wp.getTaxonomy
  • wp.getTaxonomies
  • wp.getTerm
  • wp.getTerms
  • wp.newTerm
  • wp.editTerm
  • wp.deleteTerm
• Media – Added in WordPress 3.1
  • wp.getMediaItem
  • wp.getMediaLibrary
  • wp.uploadFile
• Comments – Added in WordPress 2.7
  • wp.getCommentCount
  • wp.getComment
  • wp.getComments
  • wp.newComment
  • wp.editComment
  • wp.deleteComment
  • wp.getCommentStatusList
• Options – Added in WordPress 2.6
  • wp.getOptions
  • wp.setOptions
• Users – Added in WordPress 3.5
  • wp.getUsersBlogs
  • wp.getUser
  • wp.getUsers
  • wp.getProfile
  • wp.editProfile
  • wp.getAuthors

Obsolete Components

• Categories – use Taxonomies instead, with taxonomy=’category’
  • wp.getCategories
  • wp.suggestCategories
  • wp.newCategory
  • wp.deleteCategory
• Tags – use Taxonomies instead, with taxonomy=’post_tag’
  • wp.getTags
• Pages – use Posts instead, with post_type=’page’
  • wp.getPage
  • wp.getPages
  • wp.getPageList
  • wp.newPage
  • wp.editPage
  • wp.deletePage
  • wp.getPageStatusList
  • wp.getPageTemplates

Clients

• rubypress: WordPress XML-RPC client for Ruby projects. Mirrors this documentation closely, full test suite built in
• wordpress-xmlrpc-client: PHP client with full test suite. This library implement WordPress API closely to this documentation.
• WordPressSharp: XML-RPC Client for C#.net
• plugins/jetpack: Jetpack by WordPress.com enables a JSON API for sites that run the plugin
• plugins/json-api: WordPress JSON api