Posting Via XMLRPC Not Working – FaultCode 500

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  splash123com · Member · Dec 6, 2012 at 7:42 pm

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  Just made a new wordpress blog and wanted to post to it via XMLRPC but any test I did does not work.

  Any info you need I’d be glad to share, any help you can provide would rock!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 6, 2012 at 7:53 pm

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  Thanks for making a separate post. Could you please let me know by what means you’re using XML-RPC to post to the site? The more detail we have, the better. Thanks for your help.

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  splash123com · Member · Dec 6, 2012 at 8:14 pm

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  Hi Kathryn,

  Here is the php code I”m using to post the xmlrpc.

  
$username = "myusername"; //USED USERNAME NOT EMAIL ADDRESS
$password = "mypassword";
$url = "http://splash123marketing.wordpress.com";

  $body = <<<POSTBODY
  This is a test post from $oursitelink.
  <img src="$oursitelink/img/happyface.jpg">
  POSTBODY;

  $rpcurl = "$url/xmlrpc.php";

  $title = htmlentities($title,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
  $keywords = htmlentities($keywords,ENT_NOQUOTES,$encoding);
  $category = "test,";
  $content = array(
  'title'=>$title,
  'description'=>$body,
  'mt_allow_comments'=>0, // 1 to allow comments
  'mt_allow_pings'=>0, // 1 to allow trackbacks
  'post_type'=>'post',
  'mt_keywords'=>$keywords,
  'categories'=>array($category),
  );
  //======================================CREATE NEW CATEGORY
  $myCat = array(
  'name' => $category,
  'slug' => $category,
  'parent_id' => 0,
  'description' => 'test',
  );

  $paramscat = array(0,$username,$password,$myCat,true);
  $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('wp.newCategory',$paramscat);
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
  $results = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  //echo $results;

  //=======================================MAKE POSTS=====
  $results = "";
  $params = array(0,$username,$password,$content,true);
  $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('metaWeblog.newPost',$params);
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);
  $results = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  echo $results;

  Kathryn really appreciate your help! Thanks!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Dec 6, 2012 at 8:24 pm

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  Thanks for the code. I’ll keep you posted.

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  jkudish · Member · Dec 6, 2012 at 8:38 pm

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  Hi splash123com,

  I’ve replied to you privately. Please look for an email from support@wordpress.com

  Thanks.