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.

[josephscott]

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.

[josephscott]

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 :-(

[ryan]

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

[ryan]

(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

[josephscott]

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

[ryan]

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

[ryan]

(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

[ryan]

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

[ryan]

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