[wp-xmlrpc] Extending XML-RPC to provide Plugin information

[Joseph Scott]

I think it's possible to get something like this into WP.  There would
need to be obvious limitations on it (only accessible by admin users,
make the list filterable).

Best way to submit a patch is to create a ticket -
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ - and then add the patch to the
ticket.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Joe Hoyle <joehoyle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was recently writing a plugin where I hooked into XML-RPC to provide
> plugin information to clients using the API. The hook creates an new xmlrpc
> method called wp.getPluginList which returns the get_plugins() array. It
> also adds a couple of extra keys to each plugin array:
>
>        Firstly it adds $plugins[$plugin_file]['active'] = is_plugin_active(
> $plugin_file );
>        And aslo the latest version of each plugin (using get_transient(
> 'update_plugins' ) ) so the version can be compared by the client accessing
> xml-rpc
>
> I am not aware of the stance of opening up XML-RPC to show as much
> information about the Wordpress install as possible, but does anyone think
> that this could possibly be adopted into core? For the project I am working
> on it would be great to be able to access plugin information remotely
> without the need to the user to install an additional plugin on their site.



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Joseph Scott
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