We have a web app that will allow users to edit their videos; and add intros, outros, and watermarks. Once the user already done on their video. We need to provide an option to post or syndicate their video as a draft on their WordPress site.
Our plan is to create a WordPress plugin that the user needs to install on their WordPress site. But our problem are the following:
- How can we authenticate our web app to the user’s WordPress page?
- Looking int HTTP API most of the options are only for retrieving contents. Is there also a way to create pages?
There’s the XML RPC – the Remote Posting Protocol – that is already in use by WP.org Applications. What you’re searching for is
wp.newPost. The API is extensible.The URL for the XML RPC is
To send data to WP, use
xmlrpc_encode_request()where the first argument would bewp.newPostand second one your arguments for the post.