[wp-xmlrpc] Loosing text in more tag

[Joseph Scott]

On May 1, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Vladimir Yushko wrote:

>> I haven't seen that style of <!--more--> used, can you point to code
>> or docs where that's out lined?
>
> You can see about tag here:
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More

Ahh, I'd read that page, but missed the section on "Having a custom  
text for each post".


>> For getting posts (metaWeblog.getPost) the XML-RPC code doesn't do
>> any parsing of the post content, it populates the returning struct
>> via the existing WordPress function calls.
>
> I known.  Perhaps need to look on  difference between  
> wp_get_single_post and
> get_post functions. If I am using tag more then xml-rpc method returns
> content divided by two parts without tag.


After looking at this a bit more, I don't think there's anything in  
the current APIs to address this issue.  The actual tag isn't  
provided in any of the fields (by design) and it's parsed out when  
creating a new post or editing one via XML-RPC.  That's what the  
mt_text_more field is for.

The case where I see this being issue would be:

1 - User creates new post in wp-admin which includes <!--more My  
Custom String Here -->
2 - User fetches the post via XML-RPC
3 - XML-RPC in WordPress has no knowledge of the 'My Custom String  
Here' part, so that essentially is lost

This isn't an issue for posts created via XML-RPC because there's no  
way to set the 'My Custom String Here' part in the first place.

Solution wise it seems that a new field (more_text?) would be  
needed.  This field would include the 'My Custom String Here' text  
via metaWeblog.getPost and would be used in the <!--more--> tag when  
set via metaWeblog.newPost/editPost.  This puts some extra work on  
the blog client as well, to join and parse things out correctly.

Does that seem like a reasonable option?  I'd like to hear feedback  
from some of the other blog clients out there on this as well.

Also, the custom read more feature doesn't appear to work in -trunk  
right now.  Need to figure out what's going on there before we worry  
about making it work via XML-RPC :-)

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Joseph Scott
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