wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php:6394Retrieves the list of categories on a given blog.
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array|IXR_ErrorOne hook fires while wp_xmlrpc_server::mw_getCategories() runs, in this order:
Fires after the XML-RPC user has been authenticated but before the rest of the method logic begins.
public function mw_getCategories( $args ) { $this->escape( $args ); $username = $args[1]; $password = $args[2]; $user = $this->login( $username, $password ); if ( ! $user ) { return $this->error; } if ( ! current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 401, __( 'Sorry, you must be able to edit posts on this site in order to view categories.' ) ); } /** This action is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php */ do_action( 'xmlrpc_call', 'metaWeblog.getCategories', $args, $this ); $categories_struct = array(); $cats = get_categories( array( 'get' => 'all' ) ); if ( $cats ) { foreach ( $cats as $cat ) { $struct = array(); $struct['categoryId'] = $cat->term_id; $struct['parentId'] = $cat->parent; $struct['description'] = $cat->name; $struct['categoryDescription'] = $cat->description; $struct['categoryName'] = $cat->name; $struct['htmlUrl'] = esc_html( get_category_link( $cat->term_id ) ); $struct['rssUrl'] = esc_html( get_category_feed_link( $cat->term_id, 'rss2' ) ); $categories_struct[] = $struct; } } return $categories_struct; }Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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