The Crossposting God Series Part 3 - Live Journal and Derivative Sites

Posted by Creeva
May 22, 2008

Live journal is another online blog that focuses on community.   While it is not as active and communal as Vox, it is infinitely more focused on true interaction between users compared to Myspace, Facebook, or any other of the more traditional collect as many friends as you can pokemon style social network.   I can say that in rankings of comments and feedback I get back from readers that my live journal is only to third to my vox and my main blog in terms of interaction.  Live journal has been so successful that there are derivative sites that use the live journal engine, the steps listed below should allow you (with some tweaking) to post to any of those sites as well.

I really wish I could say that I had options for you to crosspost to live journal from Vox or Blogger, but currently unless you have a paid account you won’t be able to use the post by e-mail method I mentioned in the Vox article.  If you do however wish to use a method and have a paid live journal subscription the steps are similar to the steps in the vox article.

Since my main blog is wordpress I of course us a plugin to facilitate the crossposting - LiveJournal Crossposter to be exact.   When wordpress 2.5 was released there was some issues with this plugin, but it’s since been updated and corrected.   To configure this plugin you do the following steps.

1. Download and install the plugin

2. Activate the plugin in your wordpress installation on your plugin tab

3. Go to your settings tab and click on the live journal option

4.  Fill in the following options:

That gives you the most basic configuration of this plugin, however unlike many other wordpress plugins that would end there, livejournal crossposter gives you a myriad of more options.  Here are a few more things you can tweak:

I think livejournal crosspost should be a benchmark plugin for all other crossposting plugins to come.   You can crosspost to live journal from other services, such as Utterz or Ping.fm - and I’ll be covering the Live Journal crossposting functions from those sites when I get to those articles.

The next article in the series will cover the difference between crossposting endpoints and crossposting distribution points.

Previous Entries in The Crossposting God Series:

The Crossposting God Series Part 1 - The Introduction

The Crossposting God Series Part 2 - Vox

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Crossposting, Sync and centralize, Technology

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    I have been using this plugin successfully to crosspost to a livejournal journal, however, when I attempted to add an LJ community in later, I ran into issues.

    I attempted to update the settings with the community name added and received an error saying past dated entries couldn't be posted, which would be okay, except that it removed ALL entries from the regular LJ journal as well. I attempted a test post afterward and the post posted only to the community, but I could not delete it from WP (-302 error preventing me from doing ANYTHING with the post), so I had to disable the plugin, delete the post, and then re-enable the plugin and had to remove the community name from the options in order to repost all the post to the LJ journal.

    I would appreciate any insight you might have on how to resolve this issue.
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    I don't use the community string - so I'm not sure I can really help - I do know that the LJ crosspost plugin sometimes stops me from deleting posts on the WP side - but I haven't really dug into why.

    Wish I could b more help.
 

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