Expose page template functionality via XML-RPC

[josephscott]

One aspect of Pages in WordPress that is not currently exposed is page templates. This was mentioned by Srinivas Vedantam on the wp-xmlrpc list:

 http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-xmlrpc/2008-February/000168.html

Adding a new page_template field to page methods and providing a new method for listing available page templates seems reasonable. wp.getPageTemplates?

I'll put together a patch, with the goal of getting this in after 2.5 is released.

I've created a patch that exposes the page template via the 'wp_page_template' field in wp.getPage and can be set via wp.newPage/editPage. I also included a new method, wp.getPageTemplates, which returns a struct of the available page templates. Here's an example of what it returns:

{
    Archives = "archives.php",
    Default = "default", 
    Links = "links.php", 
    TP1 = "tp1.php"
}

The key in the struct is the template description and the value is the one used by the wp_page_template field. So to use the TP1 template wp_page_template would be set to 'tp1.php'.

If you provide an empty wp_page_template field no changes will happen. You can't delete the setting, only change it to another value.

The end of the patch looks off. Seems Subversion got confused when generating the diff. So far I haven't been able to convince it to generate a correct one :-(

Patch adds page template validation and the option to return WP_Error from wp_insert_post().

(In [7900]) wp_insert_post() -- Validate page template, check return of insert and update queries, add option to return WP_Error. fixes #6227 see #6098

New xmlrpc.php patch that adds support for WP_Error in metaWeblog.editPost.

(In [7901]) Expose page template functionality via XML-RPC. Props josephscott. fixes #6098

(In [7920]) wp_insert_post() -- Validate page template, check return of insert and update queries, add option to return WP_Error. fixes #6227 see #6098. for 2.5

(In [7925]) default is a valid page template. see #6098

(In [7926]) default is a valid page template. see #6098