I have to deal with ill-communication with my friends and readers who subscribe to the LiveJournal and MySpace networks. Rather than go through all the effort of posting every post that I would ever post in three places, I simply let those other blogs languish, leaving those friends and readers in the dark somewhat.
Wouldn’t it be nice to get rid of all that?
WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposting by Roderick Russell is a promising hack.
I installed it, so we’ll see if it works.
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did the cross poster work and if it did could you email it to me! thanks much
Hi – I notice that the author’s website for the myspace plugin for wordpress is no longer working. Any chance you could let me know if it works and if so, could you post the plugin?
It works! Here’s what I did:
1. download the file http://noumenon.roderickrussell.com/downloads/myspacecrossposter_v1_4a.zip
2. the file contains two files. open them with your text editor, dreamweaver, etc.
3. edit the file named ‘pingmyspace_v1_4a.php’. Lines 78 through 83 need to match values specific to your wordpress install. You may want to refer to the wordpress file ‘wp-config.php’ for these values.
4. save ‘pingmyspace_v1_4a.php’ and upload the two files you opened in step two. you do not need to upload these files to your plugins directory.
5. In the WordPress Admin panel, select Options > Writing. In the Update Services box at the bottom of the page, enter the direct URL for the pingmyspace_v1_4a.php file that you just uploaded: example: http://www.yourdomain.com/yourdirectory/pingmyspace_v1_4a.php
The next time that you publish to your blog, WordPress will call your pingmyspace.php file automatically and your MySpace blog will be automatically updated!
To test the functionality, you can manually visit the url of your pingmyspace.php file and the last entry that you made will be crossposted to MySpace.