In which I quit LiveJournal

[natbudin]

OK, I know I've threatened to do this before, but this time I am actually going through with it. Seriously

Comments

[rigel]

Is there any smooth way to handle things like post filtering and friend groups?

[mdyesowitch]

I'm curious too. That's the thing that's kept me here.

[natbudin]

OK, I think I've worked out a way to do this, using a combination of the Post Levels and Role Manager plugins. Additionally, I installed WP-OpenID (so all you LJ users don't need to sign up for a new account just to see my friends-only posts), and Weasel's Login Redirect (to make the login screen less confusing).

I've posted a protected post, just to test things out. Now I need help to see if people think this is a viable solution. To try it out, do the following 2 steps:

1) Go to my blog and under "Site Options" (it's on the right side), click "Log In

Re: OpenID provider

[natbudin]

Huh, weird. I'm using phpMyID on natbudin.com to provide much the same thing, and IWFM...

Re: OpenID provider

[ext_90761]

Seems to be working now.

[davidglasser]

This is unlikely to be compatible with RSS readers that don't get my cookies (like Google Reader), though, right?

[natbudin]

Yeah, that is probably true. I don't know if WordPress gives you a way to specify username and password via the URL or not, but if it does, then you could sign up for a regular (non-OpenID) account on the site and use that with your RSS reader.

[natbudin]

OK, better solution.

I've modified the Post Levels plugin so that people who aren't logged in can now see that a protected post exists, but they won't be able to see the content of the post. This isn't exactly like LJ behavior, but it is good enough for my purposes. So now your RSS reader can notify you that there's a private post it can't see, and you can then go to the site and read it.

[natbudin]

Short answer: I'll get back to you on that.

Long(er) answer: Not built-in, but it seems like there are a number of plugins that can help out, and I'm planning on trying them out to see which ones handle the problem well.