Problem updating posts containing <–more–> tag via XML-RPC

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  learnr · Member · Sep 13, 2009 at 12:34 pm

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  I am using a Python program (http://srackham.wordpress.com/blogpost1/) to write and update blogposts on wordpress.com via XML-RPC.

  I have been having problems with updating posts containing the more tag – it seems that it is impossible to overwrite the <–more–> tags in the existing post via XML-RPC:

  Step 1: Create post

  I send:
  <p>First row.</p> <!–more–> <p>Second row.</p>

  wordpress.com displays:
  <div class=’snap_preview’><p>First row.</p>
  <p> <span id=”more-1921″></span>
  <p>Second row.</p>
  </div>

  That’s fine.

  Step 2: Edit the post, add third row of text and update the post created in Step 1.

  I send:
  <p>First row.</p> <!–more–> <p>Second row.</p><p>Add third row.</p>

  wordpress.com displays:
  <div class=’snap_preview’><p>First row.</p>
  <p> <span id=”more-1921″></span>
  <p>Second row.</p>
  <p>Add third row.</p>
  <p><!–more–>
  <p>Second row.</p>
  </div>

  Notice that now “Second row” appears twice in the post.

  Step 3: OK, decided to have no more-tags in the post, and update the post created in Step 2.

  I send:
  <p>First row.</p> <p>Second row.</p> <p>Add third row.</p>

  wordpress.com result:
  <div class=’snap_preview’><p>First row.</p>
  <p>Second row.</p>
  <p>Add third row.</p>
  <p><span id=”more-1921″></span>
  <p>Second row.</p>
  <p>Add third row.</p>
  <p><!–more–>
  <p>Second row.</p>
  </div>

  “Second row” appears now three times (the original + 2 updates). The more-tag(s) are also there.

  To get updates to behave normally I had to delete the repost. Updating posts without <–more–> tag works without any problems.

  Tried searching the forum, but could not find anything similar.
  Is this a bug, or the supposed way things should work?

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  josephscott · Staff · Sep 15, 2009 at 4:40 am

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  You don’t mention which XML-RPC method you are calling for this. I’m going to assume metaWeblog.editPost (and metaWeblog.newPost to create one).

  Instead of including the <!–more–> as part of the post content use the code mt_text_more field. When a value is detected in that field WP builds the post content like this ($post_more has the value for the mt_text_more field):

  $post_content = $post_content . "<!--more-->" . $post_more;

  So WP takes care putting together the post for you.