Simultaneous Cross-Posting Between LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, and WordPress
I, um. I think I figured out how to cross-post my WordPress blog entries to LiveJournal and InsaneJournal simultaneously.
I took LiveJournal Crossposter, duplicated the file, renamed most instances of “LiveJournal” to “InsaneJournal,” installed it as a new plug-in, filled in my information, and it seems to be… working. That is, cross-posting to both. I tried creating an new entry, editing it, and deleting it, and my changes were reflected on all three sites.
Obvious flaw: if edit an old entry that’s not cross-posted, or only cross-posted to one journal, it’ll cross-post it to whichever journal that it wasn’t already cross-posted to. You can disable this by checking the box telling it not to cross-post to that journal when you’re on the edit entry page.
Nifty benefit: you can have different settings for each journal. For example, I’m telling it to allow comments on InsaneJournal, but not on LiveJournal. You can also cross-post entries to one journal but not the other; just check or uncheck the appropriate boxes.
Disclaimer: I am not an expert. For all I know this could blow up your journal. Back everything up first. (But I’m using it and it seems to be working.)
Crazy thoughts: you could, in theory, duplicate the file again and use it to cross-post to Journalfen. Or DeadJournal. Or any other LJ clone. You could (also in theory) use it to copy your entire journal to any of those services (it has a built-in ability to duplicate your entire journal on the new site when you first install the plug-in). And then any time you edited an entry, your changes would be reflected everywhere.
If you want to try this, you need:
* A WordPress blog hosted on your own server. (Free.)
* LiveJournal Crossposter, located here. (Free.)
* InsaneJournal Crossposter, located here. (Free.)
Let me know if you try it.
(Thank god this is distracting me from the Doctor Who spoilers. Three more days!)
Current Mood: 
hopeful
10 Responses to “Simultaneous Cross-Posting Between LiveJournal, InsaneJournal, and WordPress”
fodian on April 2, 2008 6:06 pm | Link
I have your Wordpress blog directing to my LJ flist as an RSS feed. So! Questions!
Should I defriend your LJ? If I do that, will you be having locked posts in your Wordpress blog (I’m unsure how Wordpress works) and will I be able to see those locked post through the RSS feed? Or should I keep your LJ friended, take the RSS feed of your blog off my flist and then just follow the link from your LJ to your blog when you post in order to comment?
I’d prefer to comment here since I think you’d prefer that, too (let me know if that’s a misperception on my part) and I don’t want to miss anything!
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rusty-halo on April 2, 2008 6:22 pm | Link
Oooh, nifty. Thank you for commenting here, and for continuing to want to read my journal despite all this craziness.
I definitely prefer comments here, yes. It’s good to have them in a place that’s MINE (mwahaha!) and that no journaling service can control.
I would say that the best thing to do is remove my RSS feed from your LJ friends’ list and keep “rusty_halo” friended. Because:
* Now that I’ve figured out a way to cross-post to all three journals simultaneously, I think I’ll just cross-post everything, but with comments off on LJ. That’s basically like having a RSS feed there, but I’ll have more control over it.
* This way I’ll still be able to read your flocked entries.
* And you’ll be able to read my flocked entries. The RSS feed *doesn’t* include flocked entries, so it’s really only useful for people who just want to read my public entries.
* You’ll be able to comment on flocked entries either here or on InsaneJournal. To see them here, register and I’ll add you to my WordPress “friends” group. Registering here is safe, since this blog is hosted on my own server and I’m the only one who’ll ever see your email address. (And I can’t see anything private like password; that’s encoded.)
(WordPress doesn’t exactly have “friendslock” functionality, but it has “private” posts that you can enable certain groups to see. So I made a “friends” group and am posting “private” entries to it. It basically duplicates the “friendslock” functionality, although without the ability for custom filters. So I just won’t have those here.)
Thank you again for commenting here. :)
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fodian on April 2, 2008 6:59 pm | Link
Okay, I am all registered and ready to go!
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rusty-halo on April 2, 2008 7:04 pm | Link
Awesome! I added you to my “friends” here, so you should be able to see all of my locked entries now. (They’re the ones prefixed with “Private:”). :)
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cindergal on April 2, 2008 9:20 pm | Link
Nifty! I’m glad it all works! And I’ve registered, I’m just waiting for my password.
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rusty-halo on April 2, 2008 9:21 pm | Link
Yay! I added you to my friends group here. :)
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Barb on April 2, 2008 9:51 pm | Link
I will have to try that. I was pretty sure someone more clueful than me could figure it out!
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rusty-halo on April 2, 2008 10:29 pm | Link
Cool! Let me know how it works. :)
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