Via Dreamhost One-Click installs interface.

I left it a bit longer than I’d intended, but I’m doing the deletions now.

The utility I found is working, but is going more slowly than I thought. Also, it’s possible that I nuked some entries I didn’t mean to nuke. So sorry.

If you try to use the thing, my advice is to delete its cached copy of your journal between deletion operations and restart the app. Also, prepare to do operations throughout the day because if you do enough server requests Livejournal gets cranky and refuses to work with you.

Testing LiveJournal CrossPoster 2.0 plugin.

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This is about the WordPress plug-in User Permissions, which works great from the point of view of organizing users so they can all collaborate at different permissions levels on the same blog, but is clearly not written or designed to facilitate different users’ varying access levels to a single blog/journal that is written by a single author. So like, I’d say if you were going to run a Wordpress-driven LJ-like community, User Permissions would be your bag, baby, but for my purposes, I think the other one I was looking at (that is still being ported to WordPress 2.3) is probably better. So I will wait with bated breath for that one (Disclose-Secret) to be ported/made available for WordPress 2.3 instead.

So in the field of battle, it works. It allows for different individual posts to have different audiences. Unfortunately, you can’t change the naming of the audiences, and some of them automatically have rights to, for instance, edit your posts (and the ability to change different post settings).

But for my purposes, I think I will just continue to make only unlocked posts and wait for something better to come along.

Also, I had earlier mentioned WordPress Group Restriction. That one, according to my further reading, only really does similar things to User Permissions, but for WordPress Pages, which are non-post publishing entities people normally use for permanent/semi-permanent pages like about pages. They’d map more closely to your LiveJournal Profile page or Userpics page or so on. So that’s not a good choice for me either.

I’ll certainly let ya’ll know, though, if I find a good alternative.

Meanwhile, it should be known that I installed/activated Google Analytics Plugin for Wordpress 2.0 (recently updated), as well as LJ4WP (which activates the <lj username> tag within WordPress, which I shall largely use to refer to misia in my posts - and which does not appear to work, so screw that.).

P.S. Something screwed with the outgoing URLs on this post. Fixed.

Wordpress 2.3 added tags, like the ones we use in LiveJournal, so how do we enable them?

First, I followed this entry’s advice in the WordPress Codex and added my tag cloud to my theme’s sidebar file (sidebar.php - which you can do from within the admin interface).

Basically I put this code:

<h2>This Blog's Tag Cloud</h2>
<ul><?php wp_tag_cloud('smallest=8&largest=22&number=50&orderby=count'); ?></ul>

in the sidebar.php file where I wanted it.

Second, I noted that my theme lists Categories as tags in the sidebar file, so I went out to fix that.

This other article in the Codex provided the answer. I put this code:

<?php the_tags('Tagged as:', ', ', ''); ?>

in my Main Index Template (index.php) and Page Template (page.php) where I wanted it.

This didn’t actually work, but I tracked it down to the fact that my “The Loop” in the theme I’m using is written for an older version of WordPress, so I also had to update my The Loop in both index.php and page.php for the Version 1.5+ Wordpress functions. Here’s a good article from the Codex on The Loop. After I made these fixes to my The Loop, everything worked fine!

Almost forgot: The last thing I did was delete all my old categories (there’s a built-in tool to convert them to tags, if you like), and renamed the “Uncategorized” category to “Everything”. Now I’m committed to just using tags to categorize my posts, and as long as I stick with this theme, it should display tags properly as both a tag cloud in the sidebar as well as tags listed for each individual post.

P.S. Oops, forgot to modify The Loop and insert tags markup in the Single Post (single.php).

Hey there.

This is where http://perigee.livejournal.com will live after I finish setting this blog up.

Currently activated plugins:

• Akismet (Anti-spam)
• Extended CommentOptions
• WP-FLV (for embedding FLV videos)

Current configuration:

• Users can register themselves.
• Various categoriestags.

To-do:

• Install and activate reCAPTCHA (more anti-spam that also does Good)
• Investigate following plugins:
  • User Permission (for group permissions, hopefully LiveJournal-like)
  • Wordpress Group Restriction (same, probably less likely)
  • LJ4WP (creates a wordpress tag for referring to LJ users/communities)
• Figure out whether there’s a cross-posting plug-in I want to use, or whether I want to write one. I think probably write, given that I don’t want to crosspost in toto, but just post in LJ stubs that are protected in analogue to the ones here and that point to here.
• Figure out whether there’s a plugin that makes categories synonymous with tags. Implement it. done within the object model of 2.3 and some tweaks to my theme