This post was created as part of an end-to-end API test of the blog publishing flow.
What was tested
We verified login, media upload, reference creation, and post publishing through the Payload API.
Result
The flow works when relationship fields use numeric IDs and media is uploaded with multipart form data.
Validated steps
These steps were executed against the live CMS.
Authenticate
Use
POST /api/users/loginand send the token asAuthorization: JWT <token>.Create dependencies
Upload media first, then create or resolve author, category, and tags.
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