Getting Started with Dreamwidth

What happens if I buy a rename token?

2023-12-03T04:23:40Z

Posted by: sunlit_skycat

I'm considering buying a rename token, but I'm not entirely sure how those work. Some questions:

Can a rename token be used on a community?
After a rename token is used, what happens to previous links to posts sent out with the old name? Will those redirect to the same posts under the new name?

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Community about running communities?

2022-01-08T16:26:40Z

Posted by: vriddy

I'm meeting more and more people who are finding their way to Dreamwidth and enjoying the pace and atmosphere here better, and are also realising that if they want to see more activity related to their fandoms, they'll have to create the communities themselves.

And so I find myself wondering... Is there a community out there about how to run a dreamwidth community effectively? Where people share their experience and advice, best practices, and possibly support? With topics like how to write a code of conduct or a good profile page, keeping a community active, dealing with trolls, promoting a comm, encouragements...

I found a few posts under the communities tag helpful already, but the kind of questions I'm thinking of may have a broader scope than just getting started 🤔

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Tips for new users coming from other platforms

2021-12-18T11:51:16Z

Posted by: vriddy

I was recently asking about Dreamwidth tips for new users on my journal, and this community was suggested to me in the replies! Here to my first post in a DW community. I am wondering, what little tips and tricks do you have that make for a more comfortable experience? The kind of tips that wouldn't be obvious for someone coming from another of the modern platforms.

For example, I only recently discovered the "Track this" option to keep an eye on post with thriving/interesting discussions in the comments without necessarily getting emails for it. Love how this lets me participate in conversations for longer, or get a notice if it was e.g. a request for recs and someone replies later.

Thank you!

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mood themes upload error "You do not own this mood theme."

2018-12-02T06:38:07Z

Posted by: rivendellrose

I was recently gifted with a paid account, and since I finally have access to the ability to add a custom mood theme, I wanted to upload my old mood theme from LJ. I had saved off all the gifs from that theme (it was one of the defaults there but not available here) before I deleted my journal there, and I was able to upload all the images and set up the console code without any trouble using these instructions here, but when I entered the final commands, a bunch (but not all!) of my commands came back with the error "You do not own this mood theme."

So now, around 14 of my mood theme images work, and the rest are blank. And I have no idea how to fix this, because it seems so dang arbitrary.

At first I thought the problem was that I had uploaded all the images to my image storage here on Dreamwidth and linked to them there, but if that was the case I would expect all of them to fail. Same with the theory that the system somehow knows that yeah, I admit it, I don't actually own these images, I saved them from my old LJ. While it would be sort of understandable... that would apply to all of the images. (And also, I'm guessing, to a lot of other people's mood themes that use images from TV shows, movies, etc.) So...???

It's dumb, but all I want is my little grey-blue animated cartoon kitties. Anybody have any experience with this problem or have an idea how to fix it?

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posting pictures

2018-09-17T19:19:51Z

Posted by: snapshotgun

Okay, so I've gone over the FAQs relating to posting pictures, and I cannot figure out how to do it. I've tried using my Instagram account to no avail. I've googled 'how to import pictures on dreamwidth' and couldn't find a satisfactory answer.

So please, if you can, can you show me or list the steps (one by one) on how you post a picture on Dreamwidth?

cross-posted to ask_me_anything and thequestionclub

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basic layout question

2018-05-03T04:13:50Z

Posted by: avismalus

Hi again! I have some more questions, this time regarding customizing the look of my journal.

I never used livejournal or anything similar so I'm extremely confused and can't really find any kind of guide that explains things without assuming you have prior knowledge of Livejournal. As you can see on my page, I've been messing around and managed to somewhat change my profile, but I still am confused and not really satisfied.

What I'm trying to achieve is making my layout look something like one of these:
https://secretare.dreamwidth.org/
https://catholicisms.dreamwidth.org/

Something extremely simple, basically I want my journal's front page just to be a navigation page. In the case of secretare, it seems like they basically have no theme, the only feature is the navigation post and the previous page button at the bottom. Also, when you click on their links, the pages it takes you to go back to being in the DW default theme for the comment page (if that makes sense?). I want to do something like this. catholicisms' is another example of the journal just being a single post with navigation links and no other features.

Sorry for these probably really basic questions... I'm not at all used to sites with this kind of setup and I can't understand layers versus styles versus coded post formats, etc...

Thanks to anyone who can help.

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looking for someone to help me out

2018-04-15T22:44:23Z

Posted by: avismalus

(is this group still active)?
well, hopefully someone sees this.
i've just made an account on this website a few days ago, in search of a roleplaying community. i've read a lot of resources made by DW users about getting started with the website, but i still have some specific questions that it's been difficult to find answers for. also, a lot of guides assume that you're experienced in using livejournal, which i am not. would anyone experienced in this website (particularly the roleplaying aspect of it) be willing to help me out and answer some questions of mine? kind of like a mentor?
thanks so much! it would be greatly appreciated!!

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Uploading mood themes through admin console

2017-12-20T19:22:13Z

Posted by: nimueth

I'm really not sure if this is the right place to ask, because it's less to do with Dreamwidth specifically, and more about third party hosting. But I really don't know where else to look for help (google came up with zip), and who knows, maybe others have wondered this as well.

One of my favourite things about journal sites like DW are custom mood themes. I used Photobucket as hosting, but unfortunately ever since they revoked sharing privileges from free users, I was forced to look for alternatives. The problem is this: unlike Photobucket, they all generate random links. Even the ones that leave the original file name in the link will include random numerals, which means that using the admin console codes to quickly replace the hosting in the links is no longer possible.

I guess my question is, does anyone know of a workaround? I want to avoid doing it manually, if I can.

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OpenID and Livejournal

2017-10-20T16:39:26Z

Posted by: fifty_fifty

Hi,

I have been using OpenID in order to comment on LJ communities as I don't want to have an LJ account for obvious reasons.

I used to be able to log in just fine and post comments and create posts etc. But I recently got a new computer and went to log in and comment and it told me I needed to validate my email address. So I clicked through to a link and then clicked the link that was in the email that LiveJournal sent to my email address.

When I click this link in the validation email, it takes me to a page titled:

"Please, verify that you are human"
When you submit the form an invisible reCAPTCHA check will be performed.
You must follow the Privacy Policy and Google Terms of use.

Then there's a continue button to click on. I click the page and it looks like it's doing something, but it takes me back to the same page again and I remain unverified and now unable to comment or post on any communities.

Any ideas as to how I can get LJ to actually verify the email address for my OpenID account? Thanks!

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There's an Accessibility Problem

2017-10-01T09:07:32Z

Posted by: gehayi

Hi!

I've been told that recently--say, the past week or so--people have been coming to a comm that I co-mod (which transferred to Dreamwidth earlier this year), but they haven't been able to access it. This is happening with both Firefox and Chrome users, and is occurring both when they go directly to the blog and when they try to follow links to specific posts. In both cases, the server redirects indefinitely, so that they are effectively locked out of the comm.

As I said, this is very recent. We have made no changes recently to our comm's settings. Frankly, I am at a loss as to what could be causing this.

a) Does anyone know what is causing it? If so, what?

b) Does anyone know how to fix it? If so, how?

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Open ID Account and LiveJournal Account

2017-07-02T03:52:39Z

Posted by: zelda_queen

Hi! I had a question about the connection between the Open ID account used to edit community posts imported from LiveJournal and the LiveJournal account itself. Specifically, I was wondering if it's possible to continue to use that Open ID account to edit imported posts and delete the LiveJournal account the posts were imported from.

I'm a member of a community that's been imported here from LiveJournal and have periodically used my Open ID account to edit links in the old posts I made. I'm currently on the fence in regards to deleting my LiveJournal account, but I don't want to do it if it means I won't be able to edit those posts.

Than you very much!

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getting_started @ 2017-05-07T20:39:00

2017-05-08T03:39:17Z

Posted by: gushi

Hey all,

I've been on dreamwidth for a long, long time now, and even went to a crazy house party that Mark and crew threw back in the day. Met Mark and Denise and Azzy and even Tupshin and petted their dogs and stuff. Was a blast.

Recent politics have forced my hand to finally kill off my LJ. (I've unkilled it for a bit so I can reclaim my openid, but it's ultimately going the way of the dodo).

That said, I've tried using my old LJ client, jlj. (In the list of clients, someone links to a newer version but it's a dead link).

It doesn't seem to want to work, and bombs out with Client Error: Missing required arguments.

I'm competent enough in perl to try to fix it, and try and get it running, but I can't find the interface specs.

Could someone point me to the relevant docs?

-Dan

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Entry Width for Practicality

2012-01-30T20:15:23Z

Posted by: myillusions

How do I change the Entry Width. I have been searching for this answer on google and around dreamwidth and I can not find it. Can someone help me? Thank you in advance! Also one more question is there away to move the reply to links to the right of the page?

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Table position on the page

2012-01-15T08:44:49Z

Posted by: peaceful_sands

Hi,

This is my first time posting here so I hope I get this right!

I've been making tables to act as masterlists for the fics that I've posted here, but I've got a different reaction on one page to on the others despite using the same coding and now have a huge space before it shows the actual table *headdesk*

Can anyone suggest a simple solution? I say simple because my coding skills are very basic!

This is a link to the page that displays correctly and this is a link to the the page that does not display correctly.

And this is the coding that I used : < cut text="Supernatural" >
< table border = "4" table width = 700 align = center >< tr >< td >< b >Supernatural< /b>< /td></tr>

<tr><td>One shots</td></tr>

I even tried copying directly from the one that works to the one that doesn't - the weird spacing was still there.

Thank you in advance to anyone for your help.

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Mass editing entries

2012-01-13T06:53:36Z

Posted by: orchidfire

Hi all :D

I'd like to privatize all my old entries, but I don't see a mass edit option under the edit entries page. Is this a paid feature like it is on LJ? How would I access it?

Thanks!

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Crossposting Footers

2012-01-12T14:41:37Z

Posted by: starfleetbrat

Hi. Quick Question,

I can see where I can edit the crossposting footer that appears on my livejournal entry, but where can I edit the crossposting footer that appears on my dreamwidth entry? At the moment is just says "Crossposts: [html link to lj entry]" and I'd like to change that to something prettier.

Thanks : )

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Tag search question

2012-01-05T00:55:38Z

Posted by: yourlibrarian

I thought I remembered reading some time back that there was a way of performing a combined tag search in journals -- in other words doing a Tag A AND Tag B search. However, I couldn't see anyplace where this would be done. Is this possible?

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Exporting journal to LJ?

2012-01-02T02:12:26Z

Posted by: alee_grrl

I know that there is a way to import journals from LJ. Is there a way to export DW journals to LJ? Or do I need to go in, edit individual posts and crosspost from there? Silly me only recently decided to synchronize all my journals. Took me a while to realize that it isn't a complex process. :)

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Disabling custom comment pages.

2011-12-28T00:49:01Z

Posted by: linear

There's a feature to do so on livejournal, and I'm pretty sure you can do it here on dreamwidth, too. (I've seen it! This journal is also proof that you can disable it.) But how do you do it? I've tried looking around for an answer, but I couldn't find one. I looked under Presentation, and it says this:

"Disable customized comment pages for your journal
OBSOLETE: This option has been moved to Account Settings"

I checked under Account Settings, but I couldn't find the option to disable custom comment pages. Please help me! @~@

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Communities: setting up & administering

2011-12-26T15:51:21Z

Posted by: zellieh

I've set up[ a comm. I've set myself up as mod/administrator. I've set up my email to receive notifications. I've set up a co-mod with administrator privileges. So far, so good.

How do I set up email notifications for both me and my co-mod? Can I do that, or does my co-mod need to do it?

I've seen instructions in the FAQ for how to set up as a solo mod, pass all the modly duties on when you want to give up modding, but not how to share modding duties. Please help!

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Editing tags

2011-12-24T03:51:00Z

Posted by: surreal_44

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

2011-12-15T02:33:55Z

Posted by: princessofgeeks

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.

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DW not crossposting to LJ?

2011-12-08T16:48:06Z

Posted by: faedreamer

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

2011-11-27T11:30:51Z

Posted by: garedeuropa

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

2011-11-12T05:08:12Z

Posted by: zycroft

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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