[wp-xmlrpc] Custom fields

[Peter Westwood]

On 16 Sep 2009, at 20:39, Daniel Jalkut wrote:

> As far as I know the _prefixed custom fields are all intended to be  
> filtered out of the UI. I'm tentatively planning that MarsEdit  
> should also filter them from the UI, and furthermore avoid re- 
> sending them (because it could be sending an outdated value). I'm  
> relying on the apparent "lazy" behavior of custom fields in  
> WordPress. That is, an unspecified value is nondestructive. I'm  
> hoping other blog systems will adopt the same conventions so that  
> omission of any particular custom field does not indicate deletion.
>

Yes these should be filtered out from UIs they are used for other  
things like page templates and by plugins - in some cases you might  
want to add specific ui for them (page templates) we may need more api  
calls for this to be possible though (listing available page templates).

westi
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