@manton.org do you support the REST API for posting to Wordpress?

@azizforamerica.com Not the REST API, but from our Micro.blog mobile apps we use the XML-RPC API to post to WordPress.

@manton @azizforamerica.com - fwiw, there is a Swift open-source framework that supports this here:
https://github.com/microdotblog/snippets

@manton Are there plans to change that to the REST API? Both WordPress and the fork https://www.classicpress.net/, which I am using for a project, plan to remove XMLRPC support soon, even encourage people to disable it now for security reasons.

@MarcoZehe I’m skeptical that XML-RPC will be removed. Matt Mullenweg actually had a tweet recently where he defended keeping XML-RPC in. But I’m not up to date with ClassicPress.

@MarcoZehe “Plan to remove XMLRPC support soon”? That doesn’t match my understanding at all. Maybe the ClassicPress fork, but I imagine I would have heard about it if the main branch had such a plan. The official iOS and Android apps are still working on adding support for the REST API. And the official WordPress branch made changes about 10 years to harden security, which is why it’s been enabled by default for so long.

@manton There is mention here of a petition to remove XML-RPC from CP that was closed in 2022, but a version of it was picked up later and moved to GitHub with regards to moving it to the core plugin here. The final conclusion there was that the option was added, but defaults to on, and with a tacit plan to revisit the concept for 3.x. CP is on 2.3 now.

@manton OK, I did some digging. I first saw this mentioned in the release notes for ClassicPress 2.3.0. However, the petition to remove XMLRPC was actually shelved. Sorry for raising false alarms.