Wordpress New Post via XMLRPC

Question

I'm trying to post to wordpress using xmlrpc, however, I don't know how to put categories and tags into the xml.

Does anyone matter to know how to do it?

Please see below how I'm doing the xml file. It is working fine, but without categories nor tags.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
  <methodName>metaWeblog.newPost</methodName>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>
        <int>1</int>
      </value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>
        <string>username</string>
      </value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>
        <string>password</string>
      </value>
    </param>
    <struct>
      <member>
        <name>wp_slug</name>
        <value><string></string></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>wp_password</name>
        <value><string></string></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>wp_page_parent_id</name>
        <value><int></int></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>wp_page_order</name>
        <value><int></int></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>wp_author_id</name>
        <value><int>1</int></value>
      </member>    
      <member>
        <name>title</name>
        <value><string>title</string></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>description</name>
        <value><string>description</string></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>mt_excerpt</name>
        <value><string></string></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>mt_text_more</name>
        <value><string></string></value>
      </member>    
      <member>
        <name>mt_allow_comments</name>
        <value><int>1</int></value>
      </member>  
      <member>
        <name>mt_allow_pings</name>
        <value><int>1</int></value>
      </member>
      <member>
        <name>mt_allow_pings</name>
        <value><datetime></datetime></value>
      </member>
    </struct>  
    <param>
      <value>
        <bool>true</bool>
      </value>
    </param>    
  </params>  
</methodCall>

Thank you all!

This is very WP-specific and would probably do well at WP.SE. — aendra

aendra aendra · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-12T00:47:38

Try:

[...]
<struct>
<member>
<name>categories</name>
<value><array><data><value>Category 1</value><value>Category 2</value></data></array></value>
</member>
[...]

...Replacing "1,2,3,4,5" with a comma-separated list of the categories the post belongs to.

From: http://www.juust.org/index.php/metaweblog-newpost-posting-to-wordpress-from-word/2009/10/

(Edit: I think I misread that; it's asking for the category names in their own "value" tags, not a comma-separated list.)

Wordpress New Post via XMLRPC

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