sdlfkjsdf profile page?

[lexus]

Okay, isn't your default icon supposed to show on your profile page? Because mine has been showing my *previous* default icon (or the first icon I ever uploaded) for hours and hours now. :|

Ignore me, it's a known problem and I'm silly. :D

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[sarcasticsra]

Okay, you know how in the Customize Style section, under 'Text', it gives you the option to edit the way your navigation links (calendar, recent entries, memories, etc.) display? There's no option for tags, though, which kind of throws a wrench into the aesthetic of things if you're doing something theme-y, or even, as I'm doing, just making them lowercase. Is there another way to edit this that I just haven't managed to find? Any help would be greatly appreciated. :D

Rotating Headers in Transmogrified?

[elfgirl]

I know that Transmorgrified allows headers, but does anyone know if it's possible to set custom CSS up for rotating headers (display a randomly selected header from a set group of available headers)? I've seen folks on LJ with their styles set up to do this and I do it myself in my WP journal, but I've no idea how to do it with custom CSS here.

Thanks!

Sorted! From the instructions found here:

NOTE: This solution is only workable with custom theme layers, which means you have to have some sort of paid account. It may or may not work with the other S2 DW themes. (ETA: it also works with Negatives.)

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Dreamwidth and Wordpress . . .

[whichy]

So in the past I have cross-posted straight from my self-hosted Wordpress blog to LJ. I tried switching over the basic settings of the LJXP wordpress plugin to dreamwidth and got "Something went wrong - 302 : Client error: Can't edit post from requested journal" as an error -

E.T.A.
Okay - solved - even though i get an error when setting it up, the cross post does work.

BUT - posts made that way, don't cross-post to LJ (which is my current default setting), any ideas?

OpenID and Dreamwidth

[hatman]

So you've got a brand new Dreamwidth account. Congratulations! :) What do you do with your old OpenID account?

As has already been mentioned, don't delete it. It can cause problems with any comments you've posted (either using that OpenID or comments brought in by the importer).

But then you've got two accounts. And while there's a plan to someday allow you to claim that account with your primary DW account, there's no telling when that will actually be possible.

The best thing to do (if you don't mind linking your offsite account with your DW - some people would rather have a fresh start) is simply to put your DW name in your OpenID profile. (You'll need to log out of DW and then log back in with your OpenID, of course.) OpenID accounts can't have HTML in the profile, but you can post the URL as an inactive link. You can also list your DW URL as your website (the one active link you are allowed).

It's a simple thing, but it can help avoid some confusion, and make sure that your friends can find you when they come over.

Finally, in case you haven't already found it, there's dreamchasers, a community set up to help people from LJ and other services find friends (old and new) on Dreamwidth.

Reading list by color?

[zdashamber]

On my Livejournal friendslist I use a style that shows bars of color alongside every post, based on the colors I defined for my different friends, so I can see at a glance who is talking. Dreamwidth has the option to define colors for different subscriptions, but is there a style yet that applies those different colors to your reading list?

amadi pointed to a good post on prettifying layout, which makes it seem possible (though difficult) that I could figure out how to hand-code something... So even complex fixes involving hand coding can apply.

(Not really related, I just saw a post about how you can apparently use different icons for usericons? Fascinating!)

loudtwitter by email

[ephemera]

I'm planning on running my main DW and main LJ accounts in parallel, at least for a few months.
I'd like to get my agrigated twitters to show up on both journals.


At the moment I'm using LoudTwitter to post to my LJ via email (and using email posting to post to both sites as my 'client' of choice.

Plan one
- give LoudTwitter both post@LJ and post@DW addresses
No dice - LoudTwitter won't take multiple email addresses

Plan two
- give LoudTwitter my gmail address, and set up a gmail filter to send the email on to both post@LJ and post@DW addresses
No dice - Gmail filters apparently won't take multiple email addresses for a single filter.

Plan three
- give LoudTwitter my gmail address, and set up two gmail filters, one sorting on the first line of my LoudTwitter template, the other sorting on the second line of my LoudTwitter template.

Does anyone have any idea if that's likely to work, or am I setting myself up for disappointment?

No dice - email posting doesn't like forwarded email, either here or on LJ.

Plan four - create a second Loudtwitter account using my DW OpenID, and have one sending to LJ and one sending to DW. Clunky, but working.

[NB conversations about how much you don't want to see LoudTwitter posts on your flist not really appreciated - I run mine under a cut tag and on an opt-in access filter, at which point I figure the fact that I want a record of that content is hurting no one, and it's of interest to some folks.]

Header image in 'Negatives' style?

[rasah]

Hi, I've had a look through this com and can't see an answer to this as yet - is it possible to add a custom header in the 'Negatives' layout style? If it is, couldsomeone please let me know how? Thanks very much in advance!

:o)