xmlrpc & tag

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  agrawalyogesh · Member · Jun 3, 2008 at 4:29 pm

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  Hi, I am posting to my blog using xmlrpc. I can associate categories to the blog, also there is a method to get the current categories from wordpress. I was wondering if there is a way to associate the tag to the blog, using xmlrpc, I also didn’t find a method to get your existing tag.

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  jamesewelch · Member · Jun 3, 2008 at 5:33 pm

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  Do you mean get the current categories from wordpress.com or from your wordpress blog?

  There is an XML RPC method to do that, but I guess it depends on which XMLRPC library you are using. Same issue with the tags. In the library that I used, it had a method to associate tags and categories, etc.

  Which XML RPC library and which langauge are you using?

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  josephscott · Staff · Jun 3, 2008 at 7:05 pm

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  The metaWeblog.getPost/editPost/newPost methods have support for the mt_keywords field, which contains the tags for a post. There is no method to simply get all of the tags used in your blog, like you can do for categories. That would be an interesting feature to have though.

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  agrawalyogesh · Member · Jun 3, 2008 at 10:51 pm

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  Thanks josephscott, I was using blogger.newPost and it didn’t have anything like that, also I didn’t find the mt_keywords field in xmlrpc.php that I got from wordpress.org , I believe it is 2.4 version and wordpress.com uses the same xmlrpc.php

  I will make a support request for having a method for getting all the tags.

  Jamesewelch,

  I am using php, and an XML RPC library available here – http://www.guardiansoftware.net/wordpressxmlrpc

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  jamesewelch · Member · Jun 3, 2008 at 10:56 pm

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  What I did was to just grab all of my posts loop through them, create key value pair data structure to grab/store all of my tags (with the tag count as the value), so I could do stats, etc. It’s not the most eloquent of techniques, but it works. You could do something like that and just save that locally or in a cache, so you would only call it when you needed to refresh it.

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  agrawalyogesh · Member · Jun 3, 2008 at 10:59 pm

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  Thanks jameswelch, that answer one part of my question, the other question is when I post a message to my blog how do I associate tags to it.

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  josephscott · Staff · Jun 4, 2008 at 12:27 am

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  As I mentioned before, using metaWeblog.newPost, you can set tags via the mt_keywords field.

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  agrawalyogesh · Member · Jun 10, 2008 at 12:21 am

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  thanks josephscott, what language do you use to post to the wordpress, do you mind sharing your code for a post with metaWeblog.newPost

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  josephscott · Staff · Jun 10, 2008 at 3:09 am

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  I do mostly PHP, for XML-RPC I use the IXR library http://code.google.com/p/ixr/

  Docs are at http://scripts.incutio.com/xmlrpc/

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  agrawalyogesh · Member · Jun 10, 2008 at 5:43 am

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  Thanks josephscott. I will take a look at it.