XML-RPC usage in WordPress

WordPress, in itself, is a flexible platform for blogging that is highly customizable and very efficient for pairing with other systems and APIs. The XML-RPC system within WordPress will be the topic of our discussion in this section. XML-RPC within WordPress will help this by performing operations on the installation of WordPress, even remotely, which makes the use of XML-RPC within WordPress natural for pairing with some software that does batch tasking such as creating several posts from a single file.

If we were to take a look at the official WordPress Codex, then we would find that WordPress, being based on an XML-RPC interface, has its implementation for its specific functionality that is called in the WP API. This ...

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