Chris

I am testing three things:

1. Will this post to both DW and LJ?
2. Will all tags be used?  Including ones with a colon in it?
3. Can I use the "more" tag as a cut tag in each?

Sooo:

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

I am going to try this one last time.  I'm testing this Wordpress LJ-XP plugin, wherein I can crosspost my WP entries over to Dreamwidth.  So, good morning.

(Whoop, afternoon, actually.)

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

Do you use Wordpress?

Are you a right-thinking individual?

Then you, too, may appreciate the Unfancy Quote plugin, that replaces all &%*$ smart quotes with straight quotes.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

When I post in Wordpress, I use Visual for appearance and forcing double-spaces, but I use HTML for adding links and being very picky with my code.  Here's how to add a button in the HTML editor bar to not only add LJ user code, but to have it plug in the username in the right spots.

0) You will be editing the /wp-includes/js/quicktag.js file.  Make backups, &c &c.

1) Open the file and look for the first instance of this line: edButtons[edButtons.length]

Underneath that code block (should be for the 'strong' tag), add this:

edButtons[edButtons.length] =
    new edButton('ed_lj'
    ,'LJ User'
    ,'<a href="http://###.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="ljuser" src="[img src]" alt="ljuser" border="0" width="17" height="17"></a><a href="http://###.livejournal.com/"><strong>###</strong></a>'
    ,"
    ,'ljuser'
);

If you stop and save at this point, you will have a button that will add the LJ user code.  ### should be replaced with the user name, and [img src] should be replaced with where you've saved the 17×17 LJ user icon.  (I recommend saving it locally.)

However, I want it to ask for and insert the username, so I don't have to.  So…

2) Search for this string: function edShowButton(button, i) {

You should see an if/else if/else block.  Insert this code above the else if line:

else if (button.id == 'ed_lj') {
    document.write('<input id="' + button.id + '" class="ed_button" onclick="edInsertLJUser(edCanvas, ' + i + ');" type="button" value="' + button.display + '" accesskey="' + button.access + '" />');
}

3) Search for this string: function edInsertLink(myField, i, defaultValue) {

Below that function (and above the edInsertImage function), add this code block:

function edInsertLJUser(myField, i, defaultValue) {
    if (!defaultValue) {
        defaultValue = 'news';
    }
    if (!edCheckOpenTags(i)) {
        var theUser = prompt(quicktagsL10n.enterURL, defaultValue);
        if (theUser) {
            edButtons[i].tagStart = '<a href="http://' + theUser + '.livejournal.com/profile"><img style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="ljuser" src="[img src]" alt="ljuser" border="0" width="17" height="17"></a><a href="http://' + theUser + '.livejournal.com/"><strong>' + theUser + '</strong></a>';
            edInsertTag(myField, i);
        }
    }
    else {
        edInsertTag(myField, i);
    }
}

4) Finally, save, close, and refresh the Add New Post or Edit Post page.  When you click on the HTML tab now, you should see LJ User.  Click on that, and where it says 'news' (the default LJ user), put in the LJ username you want to enter in.  This will return code that (a) has the username in all the right places and (b) looks right both in WP and LJ.

Ta-da!

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.

I copied nearly all my data from the old URL (at blogspot) to here, including all Haloscan comments.  Next is to get links over here, but that should be easy enough.

A couple of notes, in case I ever do this WP thing again.

• The Meta section is found in sidebar.php.  Remove it.
• Go to Manage &gt; Link Categories page to rename Blogroll to anything else.
• Go to /wp-includes/widgets.php, and look for the wp_widget_tag_cloud function.&#160; Within this, look for "wp_tag_cloud();".  Comment that out, and replace it with wp_tag_cloud('smallest=10&largest=10&number=45&orderby=name&format=flat');
• Nrr.  Go to Settings and make sure the timezone is accurate.  If it is not <i>and</i> posts have been made, update the mysql table wp_posts – set the post_date to post_date_gmt minus (whatever).
• To add "[no subject]"-ness, go to /wp-includes/post-template.php.  In the get_the_title function, add below the $title= line: if ( !$title ) { $title = ']no subject]'; }

The last things to do here are (1) redo categories to categories + tags and (2) move the sitetracker dealiebopper over.

Whee!

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.