public function blogger_getRecentPosts( $args ) {

		$this->escape( $args );

		// $args[0] = appkey - ignored
		$username = $args[2];
		$password = $args[3];
		if ( isset( $args[4] ) ) {
			$query = array( 'numberposts' => absint( $args[4] ) );
		} else {
			$query = array();
		}

		$user = $this->login( $username, $password );
		if ( ! $user ) {
			return $this->error;
		}

		if ( ! current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
			return new IXR_Error( 401, __( 'Sorry, you are not allowed to edit posts.' ) );
		}

		/** This action is documented in wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php */
		do_action( 'xmlrpc_call', 'blogger.getRecentPosts' );

		$posts_list = wp_get_recent_posts( $query );

		if ( ! $posts_list ) {
			$this->error = new IXR_Error( 500, __( 'Either there are no posts, or something went wrong.' ) );
			return $this->error;
		}

		$recent_posts = array();
		foreach ( $posts_list as $entry ) {
			if ( ! current_user_can( 'edit_post', $entry['ID'] ) ) {
				continue;
			}

			$post_date  = $this->_convert_date( $entry['post_date'] );
			$categories = implode( ',', wp_get_post_categories( $entry['ID'] ) );

			$content  = '<title>' . wp_unslash( $entry['post_title'] ) . '</title>';
			$content .= '<category>' . $categories . '</category>';
			$content .= wp_unslash( $entry['post_content'] );

			$recent_posts[] = array(
				'userid'      => $entry['post_author'],
				'dateCreated' => $post_date,
				'content'     => $content,
				'postid'      => (string) $entry['ID'],
			);
		}

		return $recent_posts;
	}