XMLRPC Delete WordPress Post with wp.deletePost

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I am trying to delete a wordpress post with XMLRPC, I created a function but it returns a strange thing: 

function deletePost($rpcurl,$username,$password,$post_id) 
{
// xmlrpc settings
$params = array(0,$username,$password,$post_id);

// run xmlrpc
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request('wp.deletePost', $params);
$ch = curl_init();  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $rpcurl);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 1);  
$results = curl_exec($ch);  
curl_close($ch);

// testing
var_dump( $results);
return $results;  
}

Here’s what is being returned (once stripped some of the xml tags down):

<name>faultCode</name>
<value><int>-32601</int></value>
<name>faultString</name>
<value><string>server error. requested method wp.deletePost does not exist.</string>
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  1. It actually is what it says it is…there is no such method on xmlrpc server, because wp doesn’t allow to delete posts by itself… But in the xmlrpc there is a method for blogger api called blogger.deletePost. It should do what you want. As I look at your code, I think you only need to fix two things, change your third line of code into 

    $request = xmlrpc_encode_request('blogger.deletePost', $params);

    and also, your $params should be an array, with values on [1] being post_id, [2] username a [3] password.

    EDIT: It obviously exists from version 3.4., so you could either use the solution above, or use the wp.deletePost with $params with values on [1] username a [2] password and [3] post_id.