If you don’t use any 3rd services such as XMLRPC | REST API | oEmbed | Windows Live Writer, removing those lines/headers doesn’t affect anything to your site. Those lines of code is the best way to archive what you want. To remove xmlrpc.php?rds, you need another line: remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘rsd_link’); Put all of them in … Read more
You can look at the requests data / response data via Developer Tools in your browser (usually F12, but depends on your browser). That might give you some indication of the direction to investigate. Personal Opinion Personally, I have disabled xmlrpc.prg on all of my sites. It is an easy way for a hacker to … Read more
I’m unable to find a XML-RPC method called wp.getUsers in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php. Could it be, that you’re using an additional plugin that extends the basic behavior of WordPress? A simple google search for ‘wp.getUsers’ points me to the the github repo of Max Cutler and the class wp-xmlrpc-modernization. There you have a method wp.getUsers which accepts … Read more
VERSION 1 will query all the images and give you a count by checking the size of the returned array. VERSION 2 is a much faster method introduced by birgire. // VERSION 1 $images = get_posts(array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_status’ => ‘any’, ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘fields’ => ‘ids’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image/jpeg,image/gif,image/jpg,image/png’, )); echo count($images) . … Read more
This github repo has bdn.getPosts extended XML-RPC function to get category. Get 10 most recently modified posts in the sports category ($category can be either a slug or an ID) `array( 1, $username, $password, ‘post’, ‘sports’, 10, array( ‘orderby’ => ‘modified’ ) );`
You can either use the JSON API plugin, or wait for the JSON REST API project that is now running through the Google Summer of Code project. This is intended to eventually go into WordPress core, but will work as a standalone plugin for the time being.
Since you add a reference to my previous answer, let me share how I tested it: Setup on site A – XML-RPC Client include_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-IXR.php’ ); include_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-wp-http-ixr-client.php’ ); $client = new WP_HTTP_IXR_CLIENT( ‘http://example.tld/xmlrpc.php’ ); // <– Change! $client->debug = true; $result = $client->query( ‘wp.newPost’, [ 0, … Read more
XMLRPC is as secure as the rest of WordPress. All of the requests need to be authenticated with username and password credentials that exist on your site already. That means, if someone has a login for your site, they can use the XMLRPC interface (if it’s turned on). But anonymous users can’t get in. The … Read more
According to topic in official forums [xmlrpc] How to get posts with offset? The existing XML-RPC APIs don’t really provide a way for collecting all of the post data right now. (Joseph Scott) Topic is somewhat old and I am not aware if there were some changes since, but from quick look at source it … Read more
Playing with XML-RPC and underscored custom fields: Let’s say we want to set the featured image to a given post with $remote_post_id. We want it to be the attachment with ID equal to 300, so we want _thumbnail_id to be 300. Here are three methods how one could achieve that: Method #1 – Using post_thumbnail … Read more