[wp-xmlrpc] Remove authorization for xmlrpc read-only functions?

Joseph Scott joseph at josephscott.org
Thu Aug 5 16:27:35 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Diederik van Liere <dvanliere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for  your reply. I see your point that not all posts on a blog
> are open to the public but this could potentially be alleviated by
> making it configurable: default setting could be to make xmlrpc
> readonly requests without authorization but if you don't want this
> then, using the admin, configure wp that it should ask authorization
> for readonly xmlrpc requests.

A plugin could potentially do that.


> I am definitely interested in a programmatically parseable way to
> access wp content but it seems that it really depends on the
> individual blog what is exposed and usually it's only the most recent
> comments so I i am looking for a way that exposes more data in a more
> structured way.

Along with the standard RSS and Atom feeds this plugin provides some
interesting possibilities -
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/


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Joseph Scott
joseph at josephscott.org
http://josephscott.org/


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