{"id":335,"date":"2012-02-17T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T16:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:49:48","slug":"command-line-perl-posting-to-wp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trouble.org\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"command line perl posting to WP"},"content":{"rendered":"

After looking at about a zillion different options I ended up with Leo Charre’s WordPress CLI<\/a>\u00a0CPAN package for uploading posts… and after a bit of tinkering got it to work with 3.x WP. \u00a0However… it didn’t support tags, which I really needed for the project I’m working on. \u00a0 This handy pointer<\/a> to how to do it to java saved my bacon: it turns out that making a very small modification to the code enabled tagging.<\/p>\n

Why WP doesn’t support this natively is entirely beyond me. \u00a0But putting the magic “mt_keywords” in the struct with w\/e values you want seems to do the job. \u00a0Small change to the perl code in case anyone else is looking for this stuff (diff\/etc. sent to LC, of course.) \u00a0 Using the mod’d code you can do things like (added the -T for tags):<\/p>\n

wordpress-upload-post -d post-text-file \u00a0-t "Post Title" -c "Nmap-Category" -T "red fish, blue fish, two fish"<\/div><\/div>\n

Of course you can’t use 2 subcategories with the same name in the WP XMLRPC interface either (why they test for names vs. id’s….), but that’s just another sad tale in tech. \u00a0The salient line:<\/p>\n

<pre><\/span>if<\/span> (<\/span>$opt_T<\/span>)<\/span>{<\/span> $struct<\/span>-><\/span>{<\/span>mt_keywords}<\/span> =<\/span> $opt_T<\/span>;<\/span> }<\/span><\/<\/span>pre><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

Perl program attached, but needs the supporting libs from CPAN.<\/p>\n

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