Introducing the WooCommerce XML-RPC API

We know you’ve been waiting for a full-fledged WooCommerce API, and while that particular piece of greatness is still a few months away (see this Github issue for details), we’ve developed a simple XML-RPC API to help you start integrating WooCommerce with your backend systems today. This has been tested over the past few months with a handful of clients and we’re ready to release it to the world. Currently it only supports updating order…

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WP Development

Extending the WordPress XML-RPC API

The purpose of this article is to describe the WordPress XML-RPC API, explain how to use it, and demonstrate how to extend it to create custom API methods for interacting programmatically with WordPress. I assume a relative unfamiliarity with XML-RPC in general, WordPress XML-RPC, and spend time first covering the basics, if you want to skip straight to the section on extending the WordPress XML-RPC API, feel free to. What is XML-RPC? As defined by…

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