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Editing tags

When I go into a previously posted entry and attempt to edit the tags by clicking on the little box with my list, it erases all my other tags and replaces it with just the one. If I try to put two tags to an entry, the second one erases the first one, even if I put a comma after them.

Suggestions?

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posting comments

When I read to the end of a post and click "comment" (or whatever the OP has made her "post comment" button say), I am redirected to the top of the post and then I have to scroll down to the open comment box. It would be much much more convenient if I were immediately taken to the open comment box.

Is this an artifact of my custom layout, or a known way the DW interface works?

When I actually write my comment and click on "post the comment", I stay right with the comment, and do not get bumped back up to the top of the OP, which is what I want. So that's nice; i like that.

Current Mood: confused

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DW not crossposting to LJ?

I've noticed the last few days my DW posts are not crossposting to my LJ. I get this error in my inbox: Crosspost to faedreamer@LiveJournal failed.

Failed to crosspost entry to faedreamer@LiveJournal: Failed to connect to http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc.

Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? It worked beautifully up until about the beginning of this week. Thanks in advance!

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Centre-aligned journal with css

I'd like to have my journal centred horizontally. I find my journal's default layout too wide to read comfortably, so I used body {width:70%;} to narrow it. However, it won't budge from the left side of the screen. I've tried align:center, float:center, and auto left and right margins. Having it all on the left leaves a distracting block of white space on the right, so I'd much prefer the journal in the middle.

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Displaying Network/Tags/Memories

Is there a way to hide the links to the network/memories/tags pages on the top of my journal? They're features I love, but I don't want them displayed on my layout.

I'm using an imported layer/style in advanced customizations. It's for Flexible Squares and then I used the custom CSS option for most things (written by someone else for LJ). In the "Text" customization area, I only have options for recent entries, friend's page, profile, and archive. Anything I don't want to display, I just put in a space and that works, but I can't find anything for network, memories, or tags. Is there some CSS I can add to hide it? Or is it impossible to do because of the style I'm using or because it's something paid accounts can't opt out of?

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What happens to >15 icons after paid account expiration?

Does anyone know what happens to my icons after my account reverts to free - which 15 icons are left (15 newest, oldest, random?), and will I need to reupload the >15 if I purchase paid time in the future, or will they magically reappear :o) ?

Thanks in advance!

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Can I view only my posts in a community?

I remember reading somewhere that there's a simple way to view a community and choose to see only posts by a particular user. For example, using this method, I could go to

do_it and see only the to-do lists I've posted from my

dorothean account. (And then I can worry about the to-do list items I haven't crossed off!)

I haven't the faintest idea how to do this, and it's not addressed in the FAQs, unless I am overlooking something. Possibly, I only dreamed that this feature exists. But if it's real, how does one use it?

Thanks! Sorry if this has already been covered here -- I just joined, and don't see anything in the last 60 entries.

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Embedding ogg/ogv files

I'd like to embed an ogv file in my journal, but it doesn't work for, to me, inexplicable reasons. Whenever I try to include the code below, DW changes it to <site-embed id="22"></site-embed> after saving. Does anyone know why that is, or what I'm doing wrong? The code example is copied from Wikimedia using the 'Use this file on the web' link.

Youtube embeds work just fine.

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Importing comments and banning users

I have a bit of a conundrum.

I periodically import my LJ entries and comments to my DW journal.

However, someone on my LJ friendslist just told me they'd be much happier if their comments to my LJ didn't appear on DW.

As far as I know there's no way to prevent a specific user's comments from importing, so I thought I'd try to get the same result by banning the LJ user's OpenID from commenting on my DW.

Sadly, that doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone know why? When the banned LJ user's OpenID tries to comment on my journal here the banning feature works perfectly...Was I wrong to think the importer would respect my banning preferences or what?

Does anyone know of any other tricks to get what I was trying to do? Thanks.

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This is going to sound dumb, but...

How do you create a secondary journal? I've looked in the FAQs, and I can't find anything.

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Is there a way to not see a specific feed on network?

Someone on my reading list subscribes to a feed that dumps several pages worth of entries I don't care about on my network page every evening. I know about ?show=PC, but that strips out all the feeds and sometimes there's something new I want to see. Is there a way to cut one specific feed out of my network page? Or should I, hmm, subscribe to that feed and then filter it off my reading page? (Solution that just occurred to me.)

(I have checked the FAQs, but since I'm not sure what to call what I want to do, I hoped this might be a shortcut.)

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: Rocko's Modern Life

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markup,
~questions

lj heads...

I've seen in other entries that uses can use the lj head and when they use it link back to the user or community's lj. How do you do this?

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granting access

Hi all!

I've granted access to some person and now I'm thinking about taking it back. Will they receive a notification about my un-granting them?

Thank you!

Current Mood: curious

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Why do I not get email notifications...

...when someone puts up a new post. I get the comment notifications and all, but not those. I've checked my settings as best I know how.
Maybe there is some special little setting tweak that I'm unaware of?

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clients,
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Loudtwitter Posting

With the demise of twittenesis, I'm trying to set up loudtwitter to post to my DW. I have tried setting up the ATOM API posting, as that's what it used when I was on LJ, but either it doesn't work or I have the wrong URL.

So my questions are:

1. Which setup style works with Dreamwidth?

ATOM API posting configuration
XMLRPC posting configuration
Invite LoudTwitter as TypePad Guest Author

2. What URLs do I need to know to link?

Any help is very much appreciated!

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~tutorials

How to get your LJ friends' and communities' livejournal entries to show up on your DW reading list

I posted this How To for LJ refugees a long time ago, and it's only just occurred to me to share it here. It should be noted that my method is not without pitfalls -- flocked and members-only posts won't show up in your DW reading page, and entries that have cuts in them will show up there without cuts. Even so, though, I think it was well worth my while.

Here you go.

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importing

Re-import Question

I recently learned that re-importing does not create duplicate entries, but will sync and update.

I imported during beta and have been crossposting ever since. Every once in a while, I customize crossposted entries on the other site.

So if syncing happens, will the customized posts lose their customization, would the DW post take on the customization or would they show up as separate posts because they are not identical?

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crossposting

Crossposting and the reading page

On my reading page I see only those who write here and crosspost to LJ. Why can't I see those who write in LJ and crosspost to DW?

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Profile layout

So, I've found a bunch of communities that offer layouts for DW journals, but I didn't manage to find one that offer layouts for the profile bio page.

Do you know of any community/user that propose layouts for the mini bio on the profile page?

I'm not sure that profile code found on LJ will work here, does anyone know about that? (because the one I had on LJ didn't like the transition to DW ^^;;)

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adding somebody to my circle

I just added a friend on LiveJournal -- and I wanted to add them here, because the whole thing is crossposted and all that.

So, I added him and got an error message saying he doesn't exist.

Can I not add somebody like that? (using the Livejournal ID [user.livejournal.com]) or am I doing it wrong?