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Crossposting Woes
Oct. 25th, 2017 04:24 pm So, the other day the plugin I was using to crosspost from my WordPress blog up and stopped working. Actually, all my crossposters stopped working! But I gather everyone who's been crossposting to Dreamwidth is suddenly without a crossposter.
I've been poking around, looking for ways to make this work. I got my other xposting stuff cleared away--things are now going to Twitter and Tumblr and--though I pretty much never go there and it's not a good idea to try to contact me through it because I just won't see it--my author page on Facebook.
I couldn't find anything to do Dreamwidth for me. But I finally pasted something together. It's not perfect, it has some formatting things I can't change, but eh, it'll do for now. And I figured I'd share what that is, in case anyone else wants or needs it.
What I did was, I went to IFTTT. If you haven't used IFTTT before, well, it's actually pretty simple. You make an account, and then you can choose from a list of services that you want to use to generate a trigger for an action. WordPress is one of those services, but it won't accept my blog url as a valid blog url, which blows. If it does accept yours, make the "if this" part be a new post on your WordPress blog, and the "then that" bit can send an email to your Dreamwidth mobile posting email.
If it won't take your WordPress url, then find the blog's RSS feed url and when you click on "if this" search for rss, choose the orangey "RSS" service and the "then that" is the same as the other method--have gmail (or email or whatever) send an email to your Dreamwidth mobile posting address.
It automatically generates a "[TITLE} originally appeared on [BLOG]" line which would be fine except it's got hyperlinks in the email but not in the Dreamwidth post. I can't get rid of that or alter it. So that's stuck there for now. But until there's another solution, that's how crossposts are going to look. It was that or do it manually every time, and eh, no.
I've been poking around, looking for ways to make this work. I got my other xposting stuff cleared away--things are now going to Twitter and Tumblr and--though I pretty much never go there and it's not a good idea to try to contact me through it because I just won't see it--my author page on Facebook.
I couldn't find anything to do Dreamwidth for me. But I finally pasted something together. It's not perfect, it has some formatting things I can't change, but eh, it'll do for now. And I figured I'd share what that is, in case anyone else wants or needs it.
What I did was, I went to IFTTT. If you haven't used IFTTT before, well, it's actually pretty simple. You make an account, and then you can choose from a list of services that you want to use to generate a trigger for an action. WordPress is one of those services, but it won't accept my blog url as a valid blog url, which blows. If it does accept yours, make the "if this" part be a new post on your WordPress blog, and the "then that" bit can send an email to your Dreamwidth mobile posting email.
If it won't take your WordPress url, then find the blog's RSS feed url and when you click on "if this" search for rss, choose the orangey "RSS" service and the "then that" is the same as the other method--have gmail (or email or whatever) send an email to your Dreamwidth mobile posting address.
It automatically generates a "[TITLE} originally appeared on [BLOG]" line which would be fine except it's got hyperlinks in the email but not in the Dreamwidth post. I can't get rid of that or alter it. So that's stuck there for now. But until there's another solution, that's how crossposts are going to look. It was that or do it manually every time, and eh, no.