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Originally Posted by Tempest
Does it need access to the WP db in order to do that? I'm trying to have a central db of my blog shit and have it post to the external blogs which includes some free hosted ones. Been trying to use metaWeblog commands etc. but it's not working.. Can't set the date and can't set the file name (post slug).
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It's not as easy as it looks, at first blush. Your XML-RPC library is likely flawed if you can't set the timestamp. Some XML-RPC libraries will *NOT* support the WordPress (flawed) implementation of dateCreated. It's an array inside of the object, and MUST be passed correctly to WordPress, or it will (silently) post TODAY'S date, not the date you choose.
We had to custom-write an XML-RPC implementation for Autoblogger Pro because of this. It was CRITICAL for us to be able to "back-date" posts to blogs, in order to give the appearance of "history" to a blog you just launched.