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This is an archive of comments 101-150 made on the LiveJournal Crossposter page.
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March 6th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Evan,
Thanks for listening.
Re: Excerpt - Good deal. Not everyone may want this, so having it as a config choice is good. Keep in mind the timing of the excerpt generation and your crossposting, to make sure it exists. I post to WP from an external application, so my excerpt already exists when I go in and re-edit it to crosspost. However, WP won’t autogenerate it until it’s saved. Alternately, you might run into an additional plugin, such as Fancy Excerpt which generate your excerpts for you.
Re: linkback text - you might consider the following: options for “Insert Below or Insert Above”, and then a string field which stores the text to be linked back. The text would default to the linkback text you use (html included), and possibly the use of a token such as %b (original blog) link so that it could be parsed back based on the config files. Having a “default” button to restore back your original text in case someone screws up their HTML roytally. Just a suggestion.
I mentioned above that I use an external app to post. When that happens, the crossposter doesn’t know that a post has been made. I have to edit it through the WP panel and re-save it. The old Live+Press however tended to know when a post was made. Is this just a timing issue of the hook for the post being received? Is it possible to catch the fact that WP has received a new post other than through it’s own interface?
March 6th, 2006 at 1:17 pm
For some reason it won’t work for me
Im have WP 2.0 and this is one of the error’s I got so far: Something went wrong - 302 : Client error: Can’t edit post from requested journal.
March 6th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Ildiko - It sounds like you have somehow set the community post option. If this is intentional, make sure that the user account you’re using has permissions to post to that community (i.e., try just logging in with the user in question). If this wasn’t intentional, make sure there are no spaces or anything in the Community space on the LJXP Options page.
March 7th, 2006 at 5:21 am
The community option is blank did not filled something in. My LJ is just showing up this message: Originally published at … You can comment here or there. But my post I did in WP won’t show up
March 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
A couple requests:
1) I’d really like to be able to turn the “originally posted” message off, and just have what I put in WP show up in LJ as it is.
2) It would be nice if we could somehow pick different LJ user icons for different posts.
March 7th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
One, I want to say thanks for this plugin…
If it’s not too much to request a few features….
I’d really like manual overrides of the defaults for public, private, friends only on a post per post basis AND for whether comments are turned on or off on an individual post on LJ…
Just for a background on why I’m making this request, I use the Post Levels plugin on my WP blog to make some posts only available to people who have accounts on my WP blog and what I had been doing was using LivePress to crosspost any of those posts as Friends Only …. but this was something I only did on occasion, the vast majority of my posts are public.
I have had comments turned on on LJ because of this Friends Only arrangement, but I’d honestly like to have them off all the time EXCEPT for when I have a Friends Only post…
I’m kinda debating still whether I want to upgrade to WP 2.0 right now if I can’t get a plugin that will allow me to do this as simply as LivePress does now. It’s okay and I totally understand if you don’t want to implement my suggested features… but if you could let me know one way or another (preferably be email) I’d really apperciate it.
Thanks for your efforts, Evan!
March 7th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Alli -
Request A will be handled when I figure out how to deal with the heade/footer - setting the header to blank would do the trick.
As for Mood Icons, I’ve already dealt with this in an earlier comment. Sorry, but I’m not going to do it, regardless of demand.
- Evan
March 14th, 2006 at 9:32 am
A little help please:
My LJC plugin was working perfectly fine for me. For a day, my site went down (hosting probs) and when it came back up my sql was all a mess so I removed all db entries and re-uploaded from a backup. Apparently all my plugins and settings were either 1) reset to default 2) needed a full reinstall. In the case of LJC, it reset everything to default.
I have tried to deactivate, delete+reinstall, re-activate…
Then I get this error when I click to accept the new setting changes:
Something went wrong - 200 : Client error: Missing required argument(s)
Have you seen this error with LJC before? How can I fix this. I no longer have the sidebar option to crossover or not in the ‘write’ section and it no longer writes to my Lj. Any ideas?
March 14th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
The only thing I can think of that would cause the sidebar options to not show up would be if the LJ username wasn’t set in the database. Try deleting everything in your
/wp-content/cache/directory and then set the username in the options.March 14th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
Well, I tried deleting my cache via ftp and then upload/activate/set options and still get the same error; I also used my cpanel to delete the cache folder and uploaded/activated/set the option and same result. Is there a db table that I need to clear out maybe?
I hope it isn’t another plugin that I have installed that is causing the error. I suppose I could deactivate all my plugins but that doesn’t sound feasible.
Still no clue? It did work once upon a time… sigh.
March 15th, 2006 at 6:22 am
Assuming that you still don’t have anything in the Write sidebar, try opening the table
wp_options(variant, obviously, on your database prefix) in PhpMyAdmin. Search for the field namedljxp_username. Make sure the value is set correctly, and if it’s not, change it and delete the cache again.It’s looking like maybe that’s not the problem after all, but I just want to be sure.
March 15th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Thank you for your attention and help.
I opened up that Db table and sure enough those two field values (username & pass) were empty. I added them in via phpmyadmin, cleared my cache, and went to write. The sidebar LJXP was there. I tried to publish a post but got an error. Went back to the LJXP settings and retyped my password. And then everything worked correctly.
I guess I just had to type in the password in the field so it would encode it correctly? I dunno. But the cache+db thing did the trick. Again thank you and I LOVE this plugin. Keep up the great work!
March 15th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
For security reasons, your password isn’t stored in the clear. It’s encrypted before stored in the database. Putting the password into cleartext (unencrypted) would throw off the algorithm.
March 19th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I am trying really hard to find out how i can put the “originally published at” message that goes on each lj entry at the bottom of the post, but I cant figure out how for the life of me. I have found those functions in the php code, but moving them down does nothing but make it stop working. Any help? Thanks in advance.
March 19th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
No promises that this will work (because without real testing anything can happen), but try this:
Move line 529 to 558, and change it to
$the_event .= $postHeader;(Note the addition of the dot)
If everyone’s really lucky, that should do it.
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:42 am
First, I love your plugin, and it works great. I would like to second nikkiana’s request for overriding public / private / friends-only status on a per-post basis, or at least provide a way to choose what the ‘private’ status in WP should translate to on LJ. I’d like ‘private’ on WP to translate to ‘friends-only’ on LJ, for instance.
Thanks again for the great plugin.
March 22nd, 2006 at 7:36 am
ken-ichi—I think you’re right. That is probably the best thing to do. I had considered options like that, but the way you worded it gave me an idea for how best to impliment more thorough controls like that.
However, there are some significant changes that would have to be made to the code to allow crossposting of private posts. And before I do that, I need to thoroughly look through my code and make sure I do it right.
In short, yeah, I’ll do it, but it will take me a litte time. v1.6 may taking longer than I originally hoped.
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:36 am
I didn’t see a mail address for bug reports, so I’m posting here.
If I publish a post and edit the timestamp so it appears at a scheduled time in the future, ljxp wrongly immediately posts it to my LJ rather than waiting until the post is actually scheduled to appear. I don’t see a way in the LJ API to schedule a post, so it looks like ljxp is going to have to do it.
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Argh. Future dating posts is problematic in general. There are a few ways of looking at this:
Even though LJXP crossposts the entry immediately, it still specifies the timestamp—it’s part of the LJ API.
In any case, WP is taking steps to repair this. They are currently changing some stuff in the backend that will distinguish between normal and futuredated posts. Knowing this, I’m not going to take any steps to correct this in LJXP, because those changes should be released in the next month or two.
Specifically, they’re adding a pseudo-cron mechanism. Futuredated posts will initially be marked with a status of “future.” Every time a page on the blog is accessed, the current time will be compared with the timestamp of the post. If the current time is equal to or after that of the post, it will be changed from “future” to “publish,” and all the appropriate hooks will run.
Essentially, the problem should fix itself.
March 27th, 2006 at 10:40 am
When I save the options for the plugin I get the following error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_all_category_ids() in /var/www/vhosts/kostika.com/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/lj_crosspost.php on line 200
Unfortunately I know little to nothing about PhP.
This happens when using the newest version of the crossporter with WP version 1.5.1 Do I need to use an older version of the plugin?
Line 200 is as follows:
$new_skip_cats = array_diff(get_all_category_ids(), (array)$_REQUEST[post_category]);
March 27th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Please read the documentation on this page before asking questions. LJXP is only compatible with WP version 2.0 or later. If you need support in older versions, I suggest you look into Live+Press.
March 28th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
Does your script support posts via XMLRPC? If I were to post to my wordpress via xmlrpc, will it pass to you script and then post to LJ?
March 28th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
In theory, it should. However, such functionality has not been tested for several versions.
If you were to post via XML-RPC and the post was not crossposted, it is possible to then manually trigger the plugin. All you have to do is open up the post in the WP admin edit interface, and then click the save button. This will cause any changes to be copied to LJ, or if the post has never been crossposted before, it will be crossposted for the first time.
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:48 pm
I started using LJXP recently and so far things have been relatively smooth. However, I occasionally/regularly (really varies) get the following error when saving posts:
Something went wrong - -32300 : transport error - HTTP status code was not 200
Sometimes I will happen when I save a new post. Sometimes It will happen when I save a post and continue editing. It seems to happen most when I save a post that has no changes to the LJ post or something along those lines. For example I had a post where I had a call and later went back and edited some stuff after the call. I have LJXP set to link back to my main blog on more calls. I would get the error every time I tried to save the editied post until I changed something before the more cut.
I occasionally get the same error when saving LJXP settings.
April 5th, 2006 at 2:36 am
I’ve had the same problem as Corey since this morining.
Yesterday all posts x-posted successfully to my livejournal, but today I get the same symptoms Corey described, and Semagic client gives me “error parsing response XML” on x-posting to my LJ.
April 5th, 2006 at 5:24 am
Ok. I honestly don’t know what the problem is, an I’m inclined to blame it on LJ, but two questions:
Could you e-mail me how you have all of the options set on the settings page, and do you do any sort of weird HTML stuff or have other plugins that affect the HTML?
April 6th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Actually I did look at the documentation and the only version that says it has a version requirement is 1.0. The rest don’t specify if they are still jsut for WP2.0. Since the later versions don’t specify there’s no way for anyone to know if they are still just for WP2.0 or if you’ve made it cross compatible. So you may want to think about adding that kind of information into your documentation. Or make a coment about versions being only compatible with certain WP version. Right now as the info sits now it’s confusing and doesn’t actually tell you if it is. Just cause 1.0 is only WP2.0 doesn’t necessarily mean 1.5 is only WP2.0 also. You should be specific when creating documentation.
April 7th, 2006 at 8:54 am
If you look at this webpage, you’ll notice that it says in bold text that LJXP is compatible with the WP2.0 tree only. Also, I’m very meticulous about documenting changes between versions. If such compatibility had been added, it would be in the release notes.
There is as much documentation on this site as there is in the source code. Read it.
April 8th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
Hey Evan, hate to jump on the bandwagon but I’ve started getting those pesky errors as well “Something went wrong - -32300 : transport error - HTTP status code was not 200.”
Let me know what you need and I will send it off in email for you.
April 16th, 2006 at 10:36 am
I tried this plugin a while back and it didnt work for me.. so I upgraded WP to 2.0.1 and I’m still having trouble. When I publish a post that I intend to crosspost, I get the message :
Something went wrong - -32300 : transport error - could not open socket: 13 Permission denied
Any ideas?
April 16th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Carrie, this sounds like a problem with your server configuration. It is possible that your host has the server set up to not allow outgoing connections. I don’t know why a host would do that.
Also, that is a different error from the others.
For everyone else that’s been having trouble with LJXP (the HTTP status code was not 200 error), I’m going to be e-mailing you some debugging code that should help track down just what’s happening.
April 17th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Hi Evan,
I just wanted to tell you I finally got the “crosspost box” in my writing window after upgrading to WP 2.0.2. :))
April 21st, 2006 at 5:28 pm
Thanks a lot for the plugin! It’s way better than using LJ syndication.
Is there a way to include author name in the crosspost box?
April 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Unfortunately, as of right now, the only way to alter the text in the crosspost box is to manually edit the plugin source code. As soon as I find myself with time again, my next big project is going to be reworking just how the that box works.
April 22nd, 2006 at 3:28 pm
This plug in is awesome Evan. I haven’t started using it myself, but only because I almost never actually blog on my blog. My only request would be to allow different WP members to post as different LJ members.
Specifically because I’m working on a project where I’m moving a livejournal community to a wordpress installation, and it would be nice to make it so that each of the three users could have their new LJ posts show up with the proper attribution. Although since our project is small enough, I’ll see if I can just hard code it in to the source, but I know it’s always nice to hear what other people are doing.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Hi,
I recently started using this plugin and find it quite useful. But for some reason, the plugin only shows
Originally published at AJ’s Ramblings. Please leave any comments there.
in my LJ blog and not the entire post. Is there something I am missing? Also, whenever I create a new post, I get a white screen with the contents of my post as the text in it. Nothing after that. I mean the entire dashbord is lost. I have to retype the url to get back to the admin interface. Is this expected behavior?
Thanks again for the plugin!
April 28th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Sorry for the double post but I forgot to give my LJ blog url for you to check. That is at
http://anantj.livejournal.com
May 1st, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I’m trying to use your plugin, but it will not unzip for me. I’m on a mac and all other zip files decompress just fine. It gives me a warning that the operation is not permitted. Is there another file or somewhere else I can get a different zip to try?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:07 pm
Megan—you’re right. Macs for some reason don’t like my ZIP files.
In order to simplify the deployment process, the current ZIP file is dynamically generated on the server (this allows me to bundle different languages and things like that). That’s probably what’s causing the problem.
Try downloading from the archival ZIP file instead—http://ebroder.net/plugins/lj_crosspost_1.5.zip. That should work.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Thanks… it worked.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:56 am
Hi Evan. Can you help me out with the problem I face as explained in my previous comment? Or is it intended behavior?
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:10 pm
Sorry, aJ. I got distracted and didn’t have a chance to look into it.
The situation you’re describing sounds like one of two things:
First, did you download the plugin from the source link? If so, you may have gotten a version with some debugging code in there. Try reinstalling the plugin using the http://ebroder.net/plugins/download/ljxp link.
If that doesn’t solve the problem, then it sounds like you’re getting the debug output from the script. The next time you get that error, right click and choose to View->Page Source (or whatever it might be for whatever browser you’re using). Paste the entire source of what’s being displayed into an e-mail and send it to me. I’ll take a look and see what I can figure out.
- Evan
May 11th, 2006 at 12:29 am
I was wondering if you had any luck sourcing out where that issue I’m running into is coming from. It seems to fail at random. Sometimes it will work fine, sometimes I’ll get the error message and it won’t crosspost. Sometimes i’ll get the error message and it will crosspost.
I had a thought though… I’m currently in Japan and there was one point where through what was probably ISP slowness or something I was getting errors with Wordpress even without the plugin. Is there something in LJXP or in WP that would cause timeout errors when running scripts? Could it be related to something as simple as that? Distance?
May 12th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Hey Evan, I just set up LJXP on a new blog/different host than melipillar.com was on and I’m getting that pesky Something went wrong - -32300 : transport error - HTTP status code was not 200 drama….can you please send me that debugging code?
Thanks!
Melissa
May 12th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Hi Evan. Sorry about the late reply but I was swamped with work and had not posted recently. I did however post today and unfortunately, I still have the same issue as I described in the earlier comment. This is after I update the plugin from the link that you have given in your comment.
@Corey: It might be a WP issue. WP by default pings pingomatic.com to publicise/advertise your blogs to the various blog search engines. However, recently the pingomatic server has been having performance issues which causes a timeout in returning a response which can sometimes cause WP to fail. However, from what I have read, WP 2.x should not have this problem. But you could however try to not ping pingomatic automatically but do it manually and see if it helps. If you want more information, please contact me.
And sorry to others for putting the above OT response but I thought it might help.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Thanks for plugin. Great!
May 17th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Great! Something to replace LivePress now I’ve upgraded to 2.0.2 (although I do miss being able to post what I’m listning to ;o). Is there any way to make it just post what you enter in a wordpress entry though? I prefer LJ to auto-format HTML. Thanks very much for creating this though
May 17th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
I’ve been using it on my site for a while and it works great 9their a few bugs once and a while butits on the LJ side out of things so its out of our controll…
I do wish we had an option to cross post private posts into LJ as a friends only or private post
May 20th, 2006 at 4:47 am
It is not work for my WP site on windows-1251 encoding. How I can fix pugin file quickly?
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 am
Great plugin! Big Thanks!