A WIP R package for publishing R Markdown to WordPress with the REST API V2

maelle commented 4 years ago

:wave: @jaredlander! You might be interested in https://github.com/maelle/goodpress where I've experimented with the REST API V2 and WordPress. https://rmd-wordpress.eu/post-rmd/ including media was posted from R. Any feedback is welcome :-)

jaredlander commented 4 years ago

Thank goodness you wrote this since my attempt was not going anywhere.

The biggest issue I've been having with WordPress is getting plots and other such collateral onto WordPress. Which often means knitting and HTML fragment then manually pasting it into the WordPress editor and uploading images. It's terrible.

I'll try your package for the next post I write.

maelle commented 4 years ago

Cool! I think you might have been using another version of the REST API. For instance now it's available on all WordPress websites -- provided you can install an authentication plugin (so not on free/cheap wordpress.com plans).

My current approach for images is

they have to be in figs/ (the plots go there automatically) in the post folder
at post creation I upload all images from figs and then in the post content I replace the src attributes of img by the URL the API returns.
at post update I delete all images related to the post in the WordPress gallery, and then re-upload as I had done at creation (I do this to be sure I'm not bloating the gallery).

It's a bit wasteful (since some images haven't changed when you update a post, so don't need to be deleted+re-uploaded), so I've been thinking about a more intricate approach https://github.com/maelle/goodpress/issues/2

What I haven't explored are things like HTML widgets (I don't use HTML widgets, nor WordPress for that matter :joy: -- hence the feedback of actual users being so important :slightly_smiling_face: ).

jaredlander / wordpressr

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