Converting LJs to Wordpress

Has anyone been able to cross-post images successfully using Journalpress/LJXP and NextGen Gallery? I would love to be able to not have to look up the direct link to the photo each time and use HTML. The LJ RSS feed I have set up picks up the images fine, but not the cross-posted entry itself.

Original entry: http://decemberproject.net/?p=347
DW mirror: http://greenwitch.dreamwidth.org/1152.html
LJ feed: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/decprojectblog/23908.html

Any ideas for workarounds? Also, I profess to not being a very savvy NextGen Gallery user (I've managed to create basic albums but that's it.) I've been fiddling with different options since deciding to let my pro flickr account expire (I've tried Gallery2 but it was too bloated, Coppermine I like a lot but it doesn't have a decent WP plugin...) Actually, if anyone has any recommendations for other (self-hosted) photo management options, I'd love to hear those as well...

I have had nothing but problems with WordPress 2.8 . Does anybody happen to have a copy of 2.7 on hand that they can email me?

Ok this might be a big request, but can anyone help me?
Wordpress confuses me like hell. I have an account set up, but I want to change the theme to others that I find on theme sites, or maybe even create my own (I do code). But how do I implement a new layout/theme into my existing worpress account?? Some sites have said "Copy this code into this area of wordpress"... and yeeaah, it's not that simple; it doesn't work. I might need to be walked through it.

Help would be appreciated, thanks!

Now that LJXP is back in development and the really broken bits have been fixed, I've updated my patched version. As before, it will work with Reilly's Hide or Cut Text plugin. It also has some new additions. The most significant are that it supports userpics (keyword only, no previews) and will allow posting of categories in hierarchical format (pets, pets: cats as well as pets, cats). There are a handful of other things in the way of limiting crossposting and on-off switches for all options.

Share the wealth.

Anyone who has their browser set for a large font size has probably noticed that the top-level admin menu items in the 2.7 dashboard overlap the page content. I finally got fed up enough with this to go hunting through the stylesheets for the culprit.

The result is the admin overlap fix plugin. Share the wealth.

It just adds an extra line of css, overriding the offending code. Unzip, load and activate it and you're good.

It may start breaking down again at font sizes larger than 20px, as the text of the links themselves start pushing with menu wider, but for anything between 12 and 20, this should work.

Hi All,

A few users have registered at my self-hosted WP Blog. Here's the situation. None of these users have made any comments and what few comments made on the blog are from LJ communities of posters I am familiar with their screen names.

I am thinking about closing down registration since I don't publish private entries. I had specifically noted that registration is not required to comment.

So why would anyone register? Is this a means of hacking into my blog. What security measures should I take to protect my blog.

So, after my success the other day wrestling WP-OpenID into the ground, I thought it was about time to revisit another one of my LJ-to-WP integration plugins, Also LJ Avatar.

This plugin’s idea is great but I’ve always been a bit bleh on the specifics; particularly, I don’t like the way users have to format their names as username@server-without-extension in order to be picked up. I always figured it would make much more sense (and better integration with OpenID) to read off a supplied URL than a name. I also had issues with ALA when I first installed it due to its reliance on remote includes. This was patched pretty quickly with cURL, but the plugin still kept a couple of narky behaviours like not caching images due to a reliance on system().

Hrm.

So this morning, in between loads of washing, I gutted the plugin, re-wrote most of the regexps and logic, replaced wget with cURL and ended up with Avalicious!.

Similar to ALA, Avalicious! hooks off get_avatar in WordPress. It reads out a commenter’s URL, and if it matches one of its internal list of known LiveJournal Server sites, it returns that user’s default avatar. If that doesn’t work, it fails out neatly with whatever avatar it was passed in the first place (Gravatar by default, but it could theoretically be something else if you’re running other plugins).

It works with users and communities for LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, DeadJournal, JournalFen, Dreamwidth and Inksome.

Awesome.

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Comment?

WordPress.com has taken the time to make a very much improved LiveJournal Importer, for those interested in moving there.

http://code.google.com/p/google-blog-converters-appengine/

Google has some scripts for converting to and fro blogger and other blog formats, such as Wordpress and Livejournal. Although the script is from LJ to blogger, you can also go from blogger to wordpress.

In other news, WP 2.7 supports threaded comments.
However, you need to either update your theme yourself, or use a 2.7 compatible theme to use them. (As well as turning it on in the options)

Does anyone use a good wordpress plugin that allows you to reply to blog comments and send email notification to the people who leave them?

Thanks!

Just discovered this plugin that mimics the lj user tag functionality: lj users

Usage:
[ljuser]USERNAME[/ljuser] for users.
[ljcomm]COMMNAME[/ljcomm] for comms.

Recently, I decided to migrate my custom blog system to WordPress. The only problem? The old code had native support for cross-posting to multiple Danga-based journals at once.

Such functionality seemed to be sadly lacking in the existing crossposting plugins, so I wrote a new one.

Life is good.

So, 2.7 is coming and it will have native threaded comments (Yay!). It will even pick up seamlessly from plugins like Wordpress Thread Comments and preserve all the threading you already have (Yay!!). What it doesn't have is email notifications to the parent comment author (Argh!).

Since this is currently being left up to plugin authors to do, I wrote a plugin to do it. It's a lot like LJ comments: simple html and it quotes the parent comment and then the new one and has a link to the thread.

While I was at it, I wrote up a plugin to do the same thing to post-author notifications of new comments (quoting parent and html-ified).

And, while I was in the groove, I rewrote my old patch of the LJ icon + Gravatars plugin--in fact, I rewrote it sufficiently that I gave it a new name. It now recognizes LJ, IJ, JF, GJ and DeadJournal just because; new Danga-type sites can be added easily (anyone know of any more that should go in?).

To top off, since the lack of local user icons was driving me batty, I split off that function into its own plugin. It's pretty simple, but it will let any logged in user with file upload abilities load, replace and delete a local user icon.

Note, both of these run on top of the native get_avatar function, so your theme needs to have that in place for the plugins to work. On the bright side, that function is automatically bundled with the shiny new wp_list_comments function that comes with 2.7.

Has anyone purchased a domain name while hosted on Wordpress, then decided to export the blog? What happens to the domain name?

Does anyone incorporate advertising in some way? I didn't realize that I could have select sponsors on my site and there are a few places I'd really like to endorse.

Thanks!

I have been crossing posting my LJ entries to WP for a few years now. I'm interested in having a link on my WP blog to the corresponding LJ post, because I get a lot more comments over there and I want to have a reference link. Does anyone know how I could edit the php in order to do this? I have absolutely no skills in this area.

Today I set up plugin "LJ crosspost" for posting directly from wordpress to livejournal. Unlike Live+Press which has many interesting features, it's not so customizable. However, it is enough for me and it works a little faster then the Live+Press. And finally, it works with russian language)))

But I missed one feature - it's quite annoying that you can only post to livejournal the same text as to wordpress. I wanted to have two quite different variants of text. So I modified plugin a little to work with excerpts.

Details on Here. Sorry for Russian. If you need the same feature - just replace the first code fragment with the second. You can check cross-posted entry here.

How can I make the sidebar look different, depending on the page in question?

For example, on my home page, I would like the sidebar to show an excerpt from my latest blog entry, and also an excerpt from the most recently updated page. But on individual pages, I would like the sidebar to show a list of pages only of certain categories- on my page about Ponding, for example, I would like the sidebar to show a list of pages categorised "ponding" and an excerpt from the most recently updated page in that category.

Is this best done with widgets, or with the sidebar itself?

I recently installed the "Into The Ocean" theme and have been playing with it a little. It's an older theme and it doesn't really do everything I need, but I think it could with the right changes.

Here are the issues I am having:

- this theme was not originally made to accommodate widgets. When the author added them, she added them only on the single post pages. I managed to add the widget function to both the journal page and to the static pages, however, the widget bits look very different from the old, static sidebar bits that they have displaced. You can see what I mean on the main page of my site, http://00goddess.net . The old static sidebar bits begin at "page details". I would like to make the widgetized sidebar look the same as the old static sidebar- any ideas on how to do that?

- the second issue: content vs sidebar. On my display, the content and the sidebar div are of equal size; they each take up half the page. I would like to make the sidebar smaller and the content div wider, in order to make the content the main focus. The sidebar will be used for widgets and a few ads, and I don't want it to be overpowering.

I really like this theme and think it's the one I want to work with. Thank you for any help you can provide!

Awhile back I had posted in the WP.org forums about the site I am building. What I asked was if it was better for me to make several subdomains, each with its own installation of WP, or to use one install of WP to run one big site (a big site with several sub-sites" on lots of different subjects.)

Someone suggested that I use categories to label all posts/pages, and then I could assign a specific page template to each category, making each category look a bit different.... using the categories to make the subsites. I asked him for more details but he never responded. So can someone tell me how I would go about making this work?

Thanks!

I recent;y upgraded 2 of my sites to 2.6 (I need to do the others but haven't had time.) Since the upgrade, one of my sites has a problem with the visual editor; the html buttons appear when the visual editor is selected. I cannot therefore use the visual editor at all.

I do have the option to use the WYSIWYG editor selected.

I've tried re-installing the upgrade.

I've tried de-activating all my plugins.

I've even tried directly copying the files from the site that IS working, to the site that's NOT working, in case those on the broken site were corrupted somehow.

At the suggestion of another WP user, I tried deleting extra lines/spaces at the end of my wp_config file (they always re-appear on their own, so I am not sure why the user suggested this.)

Nothing is working. I am not the only person experiencing this, so are a lot of other people, but it's really getting on my nerves and no one seems to know how to fix it! Please help.

ETA: never mind, I have fixed it. Apparently the suggestion to remove extra spaces/lines at the end of the wp_config file was the way to go, I just had to do it differently than I had been doing it. I had been opening the file in ftp and removing them, then saving it; what fixed it was downloading the file, removing the lines, saving, then re-uploading. Whew!