Vim WordPress Blogging Plugin (2025 Edition)

✨ Overview

This plugin turns Vim into a WordPress editor with direct XML-RPC support via Ruby. You can:

• 📝 Create and edit blog posts
• 🚀 Publish or save drafts
• 📂 Browse recent posts and categories
• ❌ Delete posts
• 🖋 Insert links easily

Supports Vim 9+ (2025-ready) and includes a Ruby CLI fallback for systems without Vim +ruby support.

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⚙️ Requirements

• Vim compiled with +ruby (check with vim --version | grep ruby)
• Ruby (>= 3.0)
• WordPress site with XML-RPC enabled (xmlrpc.php must exist on your server)

Optional:

• Neovim (CLI fallback support planned)

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📦 Installation

1️⃣ Install Vim with Ruby support

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install vim-nox

# macOS
brew install vim --with-ruby

2️⃣ Place the plugin

mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin
cp vimblog.vim ~/.vim/plugin/

3️⃣ Update .vimrc

if !exists('*Wordpress_vim')
  runtime vimblog.vim
endif

4️⃣ Create config file

" ~/.vim/blog_config.vim
let g:vimblog_login = "your-username"
let g:vimblog_passwd = "your-password"
let g:vimblog_site = "example.com"
let g:vimblog_xml = "/xmlrpc.php"
let g:vimblog_port = 80

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📜 Usage

🆕 Create a new post

:BlogNew

Opens a new buffer template with fields like Title, Date, etc.

🚀 Publish a post

:BlogPublish

Publishes the current buffer to WordPress.

💾 Save as draft

:BlogDraft

Saves your post as a draft.

📂 List recent posts

:BlogRecent [n]

Shows the last n posts (defaults to 10).

🔍 Get post by ID

:BlogGet <id>

Fetches and loads post into buffer for editing.

❌ Delete a post

:BlogDelete <id>

Deletes post after confirmation.

🏷 List categories

:BlogCategories

Opens a temporary window listing categories.

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🛠 CLI Fallback

If Vim does not have Ruby support, the plugin will fall back to a Ruby CLI script:

~/.vim/vimblog.rb

This script must handle the same commands (e.g. ruby vimblog.rb publish).

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🔐 Security Notes

• ✅ Supports password authentication.
• 🔜 Planned support for application passwords (WordPress 5.6+) and token-based auth.

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📄 License

MIT License – free to modify and redistribute.

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Submit improvements, fixes, or modern WordPress API integrations.

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👤 Maintainers

• Original Author: Pedro Mota (2008)
• 2025 Refactor

Also, check this Vim colorscheme vim_pr0kter. Have fun 🎉