wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php:1814Deletes a post for any registered post type.
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true|IXR_ErrorOne hook fires while wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_deletePost() runs, in this order:
Fires after the XML-RPC user has been authenticated but before the rest of the method logic begins.
public function wp_deletePost( $args ) { if ( ! $this->minimum_args( $args, 4 ) ) { return $this->error; } $this->escape( $args ); $username = $args[1]; $password = $args[2]; $post_id = (int) $args[3]; $user = $this->login( $username, $password ); if ( ! $user ) { return $this->error; } /** This action is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php */ do_action( 'xmlrpc_call', 'wp.deletePost', $args, $this ); $post = get_post( $post_id, ARRAY_A ); if ( empty( $post['ID'] ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 404, __( 'Invalid post ID.' ) ); } if ( ! current_user_can( 'delete_post', $post_id ) ) { return new IXR_Error( 401, __( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to delete this post.' ) ); } $result = wp_delete_post( $post_id ); if ( ! $result ) { return new IXR_Error( 500, __( 'Sorry, the post could not be deleted.' ) ); } return true; }Introduced in 3.4.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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