Upload blog posts from our custom CMS system.

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  kaushikngs · Member · Jun 11, 2013 at 4:16 pm

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  We would like to upload posts written in our CMS system to the wordpress.com blog. How do we go about that? Is there API that we can call with data/xml? Should we look at import tools?

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  dcoleonline · Staff · Jun 12, 2013 at 1:08 am

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  Hi there Kaushik,

  We have a guide on importing your content from certain platforms here:

  Import a Website

  If we do not have an importing tool for your particular platform, you will need to try and convert it into one of the accepted formats so that you can use the proper importer.

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  kaushikngs · Member · Jun 12, 2013 at 1:30 pm

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  Thank you for the information. This is not a one time import. We want our users to create blogs in our CMS, once it is ready, then we would lie to use an api to create that blog post in WordPress.com.

  Is there an api to do this ( some thing like this url suggests – http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1/post/sites/%24site/posts/new/). If not is there a way for us to initiate the import tool through an api call and provide a file in the preferred format.

  The reason for this is that we want to use the same blog post in our site and our CMS has a lot more metadata that needs to be filled out. This way the user will create it one place.

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  dcoleonline · Staff · Jun 13, 2013 at 8:56 pm

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  Hi there,

  I can certainly check on that for you. Can you let me know what CMS you are using?

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  dcoleonline · Staff · Jun 13, 2013 at 9:10 pm

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  It looks like my team responded already.

  We have a REST API that you can use:
  http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/

  For help with authentication, you can look here:
  http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/oauth2/