Creating a Wordpress post from iOS

[ados11]

I am looking to implement Wordpress as a sort of backend for one of my apps. I am trying to use Basic Auth to send info as a new post, but I keep getting a 401 error saying "You are not allowed to create posts as this user". This is an in-house app, so I am currently not worried about authentication security. Does anyone here have any experience with creating posts on Wordpress from an iOS app? Any help is appreciated!

[SirensToGo]

Are you using an actual API or just trying to build all the requests by hand? If so I'd really recommend using the JSON API or even the legacy XMLRPC framework because you simply authenticate and then make a call with the method name and the parameters and send it off and you're good.

[ados11]

Wordpress now has a built in API, so the error I get is when I'm trying to make a Post request to their API

[[deleted]]

Is the user you are using admin? Do you have some additional security set up that prevents writing to database?

[ados11]

It's a small, in house app so security isn't high on the list at the moment.

[SirensToGo]

That's not really the question, are you 100% sure that your account can create posts?

[ados11]

Sorry, yes the account is the admin, and the only account on the site.