MetaWeblog XML-RPC support for Custom Post Types

[YousefED]

In Wordpress 3.4, Custom Post Type support has been added to XML-RPC. However, the MetaWeblog functions do not support this.

• mw_newPost only allows 'post' or 'page'

• mw_getPost doesn't return 'post_type'

[markoheijnen]

MetaWeblog API will only be used for post/page. You can only get custom post type support by using the wp.* methods

[YousefED]

Why wontfix?

When consuming the Wordpress APIs, it's often easier to use the MetaWeblog functions for retrieving / editing posts, because the "Post" objects in these functions are almost the same (regardless of read / write). For the regular API fields such as 'terms' differ between read and write.

It would also improve consistency of the XML-RPC API overall.

[markoheijnen]

It's won't fix since we only concentrate on the WordPress methods. So most of the times we only do bug fixing for Blogger API, metaWeblog API, Movable Type API. In some rare cases we do add functionality.

I don't see why MetaWeblog is easier to use but that can be me that is used to the WP methods.