[wp-xmlrpc] Help with the XML-RPC API - Managing Posts

[Daniel Jalkut]

Hi Tim - conceptually you have to understand that historically as new APIs have been added, the teams responsible for adding them have built upon a previous API, but named their new APIs to make it clear they are not part of the previous API "standard" (loosest possible sense).

So every API implemented by WordPress is a rough superset of the previous API, in order from oldest to newest:

Blogger -> MetaWeblog -> Movable Type -> WordPress

Typically as a client you would want to use the API method that works for you, and is farthest to the right in the order above.

It's definitely confusing and a mess, but it always has been and cleaning it up now might just make things worse :) 

Daniel

On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:07pm, Tim Golen wrote:

> Thanks for the response. I completely understand the "don't reinvent the wheel", it's just the documentation doesn't say anything about that, so I wasn't sure if that was the conclusion I was supposed to come to. Thanks for clearing it up! I'll take a look at the metaweblog API and see if I can get that working.
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