Rec: Software: Synchronize your selfhosted WordPress Blog with your LJ

Mar 20, 2009 15:32

I'm creatively procrastinating again. This time by testing WordPress plugins that allow you to crosspost to LJ from you WP blog.

If you've got a self hosted WordPress blog and an LJ, you might want to automatically update your Journal when you post to your blog.



Live+Press turns out to be my favourite: it has everything I want neatly packed into one customizeable plugin.
It does LJ-cuts the way you do them on LJ and displays them correctly on WP! This is something I wanted for ages.
It also supports custom security levels, current mood and music, you can choose a userpic and disable LJ-comments.
Conveniently Live+Press lets you choose if you want to fill your LJ tags from your WP tags or categories or both.
Though it does support multiple LJ-accounts you can not post to more than one at the same time.

JournalPress with WP-Flock lets you post to every LJ-engine powered site (LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, DeadJournal,...). It also allows you to synch to multiple accounts at the same time.
In theory it should be able to convert the WP more-tag into an LJ-cut, support current music/location/moods and userpics. But this didn't work for me.
You need WP-Flock to handle security levels.
Bear in mind that it's only in beta at the moment. So watch out for improvements! Especially if you want to synch with IJ or multiple accounts at the same time.

journalpress, wordpress, live+press, *rec:software

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