Nicolas Q. Wardington III ([info]ultranurd) wrote,
2009-01-11 16:44:00
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I Cast Resurrect Blog

I've alluded to this in comments, but I've started blogging on a self-hosted Wordpress install at http://blog.ultranurd.net/. My inaugural post is here.

As you may note, I imported my entire LiveJournal archive into Wordpress, including comments; if you commented in a public post in my LiveJournal, your LJ username and a link to your LiveJournal (but not your usericon) appear with the text of your comment (although unfortunately without full threading)..

I will not be posting here anymore, although I will continue to use my account to comment on your LiveJournals, as I have for the past 3.5 years of nearly non-existent blogging from me.

Please let me know if you have any layout/style suggestions, or if you have trouble leaving comments or other potential technical issues - this is a brand-spanking-new Wordpress install, so I haven't had a chance to test everything. I am planing to customize my theme a bit more.

Should I set up an auto-post feed to link posts here? I was leaning away from that, so I don't get comments in two places.

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[info]foxfour

January 11 2009, 23:06:15 UTC 3 years ago

set up a crossposter and disable comments on one or the other; the crossposter can provide a link to the main version of the post.

[info]antimony

January 11 2009, 23:29:58 UTC 3 years ago

That's what I was going to suggest -- turn off comments on LJ and put a "comment here please" link automatically at the end of each LJ entry.

[info]stormwynd

January 12 2009, 00:01:31 UTC 3 years ago

Um, what they said (nods at previous posters). In a completely self-serving opinion, I'd prefer a LJ feed since that's my primary means of blog-reading -- but if you decide not to, I can certainly add you to my RSS reader.

Either way, glad that you're coming back.

[info]ultranurd

January 12 2009, 06:31:21 UTC 3 years ago

Does the cross-post as it appears work for you?

[info]stormwynd

January 12 2009, 12:55:15 UTC 3 years ago

Yep, crossposting is five by five.

[info]wayman

January 12 2009, 00:13:52 UTC 3 years ago

Please crosspost--I fail at reading blogs elsewhere.

[info]crystalpyramid

January 12 2009, 00:36:29 UTC 3 years ago

Ditto. Still don't have an RSS reader, wouldn't read it if I did.

[info]ultranurd

January 12 2009, 06:31:08 UTC 3 years ago

Does the cross-post as it appears work for you?

[info]crystalpyramid

January 12 2009, 11:46:58 UTC 3 years ago

Yes. It looks really good.

[info]wayman

January 12 2009, 17:43:54 UTC 3 years ago

Works fine, yup.

[info]ultranurd

January 12 2009, 06:30:51 UTC 3 years ago

Does the cross-post as it appears work for you?

[info]flurious

January 12 2009, 00:40:27 UTC 3 years ago

STILLERS WIN

[info]whiskerwing

January 12 2009, 02:44:16 UTC 3 years ago

Added to my feed reader. =]

[info]skyfaller

January 12 2009, 03:49:47 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  January 12 2009, 03:50:13 UTC

if you commented in a public post in my LiveJournal, your LJ username and a link to your LiveJournal (but not your usericon) appear with the text of your comment
How did you make that happen? I'm working on something very similar at http://skyfaller.net/ but I don't have links back to people's journals along with their comments.

Incidentally, I got a threaded comments plugin working in Wordpress (Brian's Threaded Comments), but I couldn't get LJ comments imported with threading (I failed at following the instructions at http://heinous.org/wiki/LiveJournal_XML_Export_Script ).... Maybe since you're a coder you could help me fix that? ;-)

[info]ultranurd

January 12 2009, 06:00:56 UTC 3 years ago

Some manual SQL-fu. I'm putting together a post on my import process.

[info]tirerim

January 12 2009, 13:14:09 UTC 3 years ago

I vote for comments here rather than on Wordpress, since LJ's comments engine is better (threading, reply notifications, not having to enter identifying info every time).

[info]wayman

January 12 2009, 17:46:20 UTC 3 years ago

You're right, reply notifications are pretty much a must-have for any useful comments dialog to occur.

[info]skyfaller

January 12 2009, 20:16:11 UTC 3 years ago

There are plugins for Wordpress that can do this, such as the new Thread Email Notification plugin, as well as the older Subscribe to Comments plugin which Wordpress.com based their implementation on. I don't know if Nick will be using one of these, but it seems like a good idea :)

[info]ultranurd

January 12 2009, 18:14:27 UTC 3 years ago

I'm fixing my theme to support threading (the database backend does as of WP 2.7), and I'm setting up OpenID logins. You'll login once as tirerim.livejournal.com, and then LJ will prompt you to allow blog.ultranurd.net to sniff your LJ login cookie. There will be another post here once I've got all these plugins fixed and configured; I'm also documenting all of this so others can play the LJ migration game.

[info]skyfaller

January 12 2009, 19:37:19 UTC 3 years ago

Ha ha, silly me for not noticing that Wordpress 2.7 natively supports comment threading. I guess that's another plugin I can delete!

I'm still trying to get LJ comments imported with threading, but it is becoming clear that I can't do this under my own power since the instructions at <http://heinous.org/wiki/livejournal_xml_export_script> assume the "Brian's Threaded Comments" plugin and don't know about Wordpress's native threaded comments support. I don't understand Wordpress well enough to check whether Wordpress's native threaded comments requires different data than the plugin did, and I don't understand Perl well enough to edit the script to fix it :P
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