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[personal profile] 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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[personal profile] 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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[personal profile] insidethestorm
Hey! I just managed to install for myself a mood theme. However now I would like to set the mood theme pic left, like I have on my LJ account:

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I managed to install Flexible Squares layout from LJ in here Dreamwidth. I would love to get also the working mood theme layer code for Flexible Squares layout as well.

When I tried to add the same layer which I have on my LJ account (http://community.livejournal.com/s2flexisquares/355359.html) to the same section where I have flexible squares layer, it doesn't work :(

Has anyone managed to make the code work over at Dreamwdith?

This is how my metadata section looks now:
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Thanks!
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[personal profile] jana
A few days ago I created a custom mood theme, but it took me a little while to figure out how to create a custom theme without having to copy & past hundreds of links... I'm probably not the only one experiencing this problem, so I thought I could share my newly acquired skills with other Dreamwidth:ers ^^

Read more here.
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[personal profile] aedifica
[personal profile] boji's recent post reminded me of something I'd been wondering for a while: if I wanted to copy the images that make up the mood theme I use on LJ and use them to create the same mood theme on Dreamwidth, are there any rights issues there, or are LJ mood themes considered public property once created? I am not the person who created the theme on LJ.
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[personal profile] boji
I downloaded a mood theme (created my an LJ user) and wanted to import it here. After uploading the 133 png's to photobucket, I followed the instructions at Admin console, pasted in the relevant codes (i.e. the four digit number and url where the picture is pasted) and got nothing but error images from photobucket.

When I looked at the mood theme codes - through the link via customize style - I saw that DW had added pre-named moods to the end of each png url so rather than read [first part of url here then/accomplised.png] for instance, it reads:

[first part of url here then/accomplised.pngangry.png]

The latter definition having been added by dreamwidth.

Does anyone know of a work around?
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[personal profile] kali

Hello!  I couldn't find anything about this in the wiki or this comm, so I was wondering if anyone's had any success with custom mood themes, or is this a known bug?  I tried to create one, and it exists as a theme I can select, but I can't set the moods to go to any images (hosted offsite); after I hit "save changes" it... doesn't, basically.  Any ideas, or should I report a bug?

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