I’d noticed recently that the LiveJournal cross-posting function stopped working since I upgraded to Wordpress MU 2.5.1. I upgraded to version 2.0.5 of Evan Broder’s plugin, and it’s working again. It works great; it automatically posts this blog’s entries to rxtdev.livejournal.com, for example. My cousin, JT, is using it too.
Whenever you make a post, it gets posted to your LiveJournal account, and whenever you edit or delete that post later, the updates are made at LiveJournal behind the scenes without you having to do anything. You can do this on your thripp.com blog too; from the administrative area, go to Settings > LiveJournal. You’ve got to enter your username and password. You can post to a LiveJournal community instead of your journal, optionally. Then there are more options below. For mine, I just picked “Bottom of post,” “Use the title of your blog,” skipped “Custom blog title,” privacy to “Public,” “Require users to comment on WordPress,” “Tag LiveJournal entries with WordPress categories and tags,” “Copy the entire entry to LiveJournal,” and checked the boxes to cross-post all my thripp.com categories. For “Custom crosspost header/footer,” there are a lot of options you can customize. I entered this into the box:
<br><b><a href="[comments_link]“>Read and/or post comments on this entry</a></b>.
<hr>Mirrored from my blog, <a href=”[blog_link]“>[blog_name]</a>. <a href=”[permalink]“>Original entry</a>.
You can copy and paste it to yours; it’s a good set of data. It links to the comments section for the post, your blog home page, and the original entry.
At the end, click “Update Options and Crosspost All thripp.com entries.” If you have a lot of entries already, it’ll take a minute; you might even get a 500 Internal Server Error (because my server’s under-powered). Just refresh and try again; there will be no duplicate posts and there is no danger. After there all there, future posts and edits will be quick.
By the way, my cousin, JT, blogged some photos and MP3s here. He used to be on my personal site, but I moved him over to the thripp.com network (me and my Dad are the last that are separate). JT’s blog is a good example of some of the stuff you can do here; he added photos and links to MP3 music files, uploaded right to my web server, by clicking the “Add media” button on the Write Post screen. He’s used up 11MB of space (all bloggers have 20MB). If you use it and run out of space, you can post your photos to ImageShack and hot-link here, or to somewhere else.
