Post to an XMLRPC API via the HTTP Request node

What this does

• Show you how to us XMLRPC APIs via the generic HTTP-Request-node, by the example of posting to a wordpress blog
• This is also a feasible workaround if a specific n8n integration does not work or stops working (which happens e.g. with the Wordpress node)

How it works

• First, the XML payload for the request is being prepared (in a code node, which also properly escapes special character in the values that you want to send to the XMLRPC endpoint)
• Then, the HTTP Request node sends the request using the HTTP post method
• Last, the returned XML response is converted to JSON which a conditional node uses to determine whether th operation was successful or not

Setup steps:

• Import workflow
• Ensure you have a wordpress blog with a user that has an app-Password
• Edit the "Settings"-node and enter your individual values for url/user/app-pw