Use XMLRPC via HttpRequest-node to post on Wordpress.com

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              "name": "wordpressUrl",
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              "value": "YOURBLOG.wordpress.com"
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        "content": "## Request Sending"
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const username = input.wordpressUsername;
const password = input.wordpressApplicationPassword;
const title = input.contentTitle;
const text = input.contentText;

const blogId = 0;
const published = 1; // 0 = draft, 1 = published


// Helper function to escape XML special characters
function escapeXml(unsafe) {
  return unsafe.replace(/[<>&'\"]/g, (c) => {
    switch (c) {
      case '<': return '&lt;';
      case '>': return '&gt;';
      case '&': return '&amp;';
      case '\'': return '&apos;';
      case '\"': return '&quot;';
      default: return c;
    }
  });
}

// Your actual post text, which may contain characters needing escaping
const titleEscaped = escapeXml(title);
const textEscaped = escapeXml(text);

// Build the XML payload
const xmlData = `<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
<methodCall>
  <methodName>wp.newPost</methodName>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value><string>${blogId}</string></value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value><string>${username}</string></value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value><string>${password}</string></value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>
        <struct>
          <member>
            <name>post_title</name>
            <value><string>${titleEscaped}</string></value>
          </member>
          <member>
            <name>post_content</name>
            <value><string>${textEscaped}</string></value>
          </member>
        </struct>
      </value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value><boolean>${published}</boolean></value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodCall>`;


// Add a new field called 'myNewField' to the JSON of the item
$input.item.json.xmlRequestBody = xmlData;

return $input.item;"
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "url": "=https://{{ $('Settings').item.json.wordpressUrl }}/xmlrpc.php",
        "body": "={{ $json.xmlRequestBody }}",
        "method": "POST",
        "options": {},
        "sendBody": true,
        "contentType": "raw",
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "rawContentType": "text/xml",
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
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