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?

Comments

[zvi]

Currently, if you post to Dreamwidth with a software program or webservice, it does not crosspost. The crossposting only effects entries posted or edited through the website.

[whichy]

thanks!

[geminianeyes]

Just curious: is there any plans to allow this to happen later?

[allen]

I doubt that it will ever be set up to crosspost automatically from any client. What would be more likely to happen would be to expose the crossposting functionality in the client APIs, so that a client could access the list of available external accounts and explicitly request a crosspost to them. Or, alternatively, make it so the client could handle its own crossposting, but register the crosspost with DW.

[geminianeyes]

That sounds plausible and reasonable. Thank you for the reply!

[zvi]

Yes, we just recently browbeat gently persuaded Mark that there should be a way for clients to access crossposting.

[dendrophilous]

The journalpress plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/journalpress/ ) will let you crosspost from wordpress to multiple accounts (I've tested it with LJ and DW and it works).

More crossposting plugins etc are listed here:
http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Compatible_clients

(Some background info might be of interest here: http://getting-started.dreamwidth.org/17969.html )

[whichy]

thanks!

[felixpearce]

OK, dumb question... I have a Wordpress.com blog and I'd like to crosspost the content to DW until I can get my style sorted here and switch over completely. Will I be able to use journalpress if I'm not hosting my own wordpress installation, or is that going to be one of those things I have to pay for?

[wrdnrd]

whichy, do you have any tips for setting this up? (It looks like you're still crossposting to Dreamwidth from your WordPress site, yes?) I come back here to ask on an old post because it ranks unsurprisingly high when googling for a WordPress plugin to crosspost to Dreamwidth.

I'm running WordPress 2.8.4 and i just installed LJ-XP 2.0.6. I entered my details and hit "update/crosspost," which gave me an error but actually did crosspost my entries -- except without a footer. So i went back in to try to play around with the footer, and i found all of the details (site, username/password) were re-set to the defaults. I re-entered everything, tweaked the footer, hit "update", got an error message, went back in to see if all the info had dumped again -- and it had, plus all the entries the plugin had crossposted to Dreamwidth have vanished.

ARGH! [sadface]

[wrdnrd]

Oh, nevermind! I just saw the above comment which recommended JournalPress. :p For some reason, Dreamwidth didn't show me all comments on the post earlier. Bah! Off to try JournalPress now -- ignore me!

[whichy]

Yeah Journal Press is what I use now . . . If you have problems with it let me know, and I can look up how I set it up.