a coding question re user names

[princessofgeeks]

Okay, so I'm using the crosspost feature here to post to my LJ simultaneously when I make a DW post in my DW journal. All copacetic.

And I know how to code the names of DW users on DW, so that that shows up as a link to their profile page, and furthermore, now I know how to code so as to make the LJ account user names show up as links in the traditional LJ manner on both the DW side and the LJ side.

My question is:

*drumroll*

How do I code the DW user names so that ON THE LIVEJOURNAL SIDE (through the crossposter), they will show up with the cute new little gray DW user symbol and become a live link there?

Maybe those instructions exist, but I have not found them. Thank you in advance for your help.

Comments

[domtheknight]

The same way! The crossposter will translate the < user name=name site=site.com > into the actual raw html so that on LJ, the DW (or IJ or whichever) icons show up as appropriate.

ETA to clarify - if you're doing a DW link, you can just do user name=name!

[princessofgeeks]

well, i'm doing something wrong. what about quote marks? do I need them anywhere?

I tried what you're showing me and it didn't seem to work. I'll experiment again.

could it be the wrong sort of quote marks coming across?

[domtheknight]

Hmmmm I tried it without quote marks and it seemed to work... but you could do < user name="name" site="site.com" > and see if that helps.

Do you have a link to an entry you've tried where it didn't work? I can take a look at your html to see if I can spot how to fix it.

[princessofgeeks]

i tested several things and then deleted the posts so i sadly do not have a record of what i did. i should have left them! i didn't think about a trail of breadcrumbs for diagnosis. *facepalm* see, I learned something there.

but I'm almost certain it was the quote marks and also I was probably leaving out the space between user and name.

thanks so much.

[princessofgeeks]

okay, thank you -- i tried again and got it to work.

now i have no idea what i was doing wrong before that prompted me to ask. probably making it too complicated, lol.

[domtheknight]

I'm glad it worked!

[sorchasilver]

I just tested this through the crossposter, and [user name="blahblahblah"] shows up on LJ with the DW icon and as a link.

[princessofgeeks]

maybe it's the quote marks that are messing me up. thank you.

[princessofgeeks]

and it turns out it works without quote marks; i just tried it again.

[anatsuno]

[user name=anatsuno site="dreamwidth.org"] works fine. :D

[princessofgeeks]

okay, i had the quote marks in the wrong place. will try that.

[carus]

Though if you use site="dreamwidth.org" in the crosspost, it shows up as a different OpenID icon, rather than the standard DW icon.

[allen]

Though if you use site="dreamwidth.org" in the crosspost, it shows up as a different OpenID icon, rather than the standard DW icon.

D'oh!

...I should probably fix that.

[princessofgeeks]

i'm so happy that my dumb noob question actually resulted in a useful improvement, lol.

:).

[princessofgeeks]

*ponders*

I tried it again using the simplest method, user name = princess of geeks, no quotes, no dreamwidth.org, and it worked.

now i have no idea what i was doing wrong before, lol.

[anatsuno]

ooh? oops!

[starglyph]

You're the only person I've ever seen that is able to skip using the quote marks on journals -- except me. The only thing I ever need them for are lj-cuts (or cuts) for text. I always forget to mention the quotes marks when teaching someone coding, and end up making things harder for them. :)

I always thought it was my mac Safari browser, but you're not on a mac, are you?

[princessofgeeks]

I do use them in the LJ code around user names and of course for the normal way to do a link in html....

but on the DW coding side, this q and a reminded me that they are not necessary for the user name coding.

that's been my main glitch: remembering what I need to do on LJ as opposed to what works here.

i do use mac safari at home, but not always.

i don't think it's a mac thing. i think it's a quote mark thing. the way DW and LJ use them for certain things IS different.

hi!

[starglyph]

I have never used quotes on URL's, anywhere, either. Nor have I ever used rich text; I always hand-code everything. Have you ever tried not using them on anything beside user names? Sorry to be a pest, but this has bugged me for years.

I know what you mean; I actually had to look up how to code a user name on LJ when I did the J/D comm post. How soon we forget. :)

Hi, sweetie!

[princessofgeeks]

now you've got me curious!

i am actually the worst person to ask because i know so little html. I only learn the absolute least amount of stuff i need to accomplish my goal. I have not experimented at all!

but you make me want to.

I use the quotes in the a href= thingy command when doing a link, if that's what you mean. but see, that's the only real html thing I know how to do and i've never experimented with it.

the only coding I know is the LJ related stuff; very simple stuff like cut tags and user names.

[trillingstar]

Hi, sorry to butt in, but I don't use quotes when coding URLs or user names or anything other than LJ-cut text. So - you're not alone. *g*

[starglyph]

I'm glad you dropped by! It's good to know I'm not alone. :)

Are you also on a Mac with a Safari browser? I'm beginning to think, as PoG said, it's not always the Mac/Safari. It may be that people use quote marks because they were taught to, but it might not always be necessary, just habit.

[trillingstar]

I'm on a regular ol' PC with IE. I used to use quotes, and then once I didn't for some reason, and it still worked, and I rejoiced, because they always used to trip me up and force me to study my code for too long before finding the issue. Heee.

I think people use them out of habit, too.