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Congratulations on picking up the project. I was a former ljxp user who just switched servers, upgraded to the latest wp and had difficulties. LivePress seems to be working great. That said, I’m a bit concerned about the fact that there’s a need to replace the class-IXR.php file to get it working.

What do you think would be necessary to get the plugin to work without that hack to core WP? How much effort would it take to achieve and is there any way I could help?

1. Tania (digsite) posted August 1, 2008 @ 1:32 pm.

   Hi Brit,

   Strangely I was thinking about the same thing last night. I don’t like the fact that any part of the original wordpress code needs to be changed. And I will be making that part of future goal to remove that requirement for the plugin.

   Honestly I have not had a chance to look into it at all. My more immediate goal is to iron out some other bugs wtih the plugin which I have listed on google code.

   (BTW, I openned a google group just yesterday, we should probably have this conversation there instead to make it easier)

   But anyways, if you want to help and have whatever coding skill needed to do it, go ahead and take a look at the code. If you come up with a patch, I’ll be happy to incorporate it into the plugin.

   Thanks!
   -Tania

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Oh, thank you soooo much for this. I’m in the process of moving my LJ over to wordpress and was planning on crossposting but didn’t like LJXP very much. And I’ve just about driven myself batty trying to figure out how to add and disyplay custom fields; this takes care of both problems.

This plugin wouldn’t happen to work (or be manipulated into working) for importing LJ xml into wordpress, would it? I’d love to be able to somehow preserve my tags, not to mention the moods and music and haven’t found a good solution yet.

In any case, I’m really happy that you’ve adopted this plugin. Thanks again!

1. Tania (digsite) posted August 6, 2008 @ 11:18 pm.

   Hi Julia,

   I’m glad you’re making use of this plugin. I also didn’t like tha alternatives out there which is why I’ve stuck with this one bugs and all.

   I don’t think I’ll be putting any effort into turn this into a sortof importer. I think there are other solutions out there for that. Correct me if I’m wrong. if it turns out there is not, maybe.. someday… I’ll invest the time and effort. or if someone comes along who wants to help me out with it. I have a growing list of bugs that really need ironing.

   At any rate, let me know if u have any other questions.

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   1. Julia posted August 7, 2008 @ 2:42 pm.

      I love that I have my music and my mood themes back without needing to download yet another plugin, AND I can post it to LJ. It’s just brilliant.

      Importing from LJ is now built into wordpress, but it doesn’t import tags, moods, current music, or even threaded comments. I found a resource for a way to preserve the threaded comments, but haven’t found anything for keeping the rest. There were some very, very old plugins from 2004 with the first versions of WP, but I don’t know enough (next to nothing) to figure out how to translate it to 2.6. I had hoped that since this plugin goes so nicely in the WP–>LJ direction that the reverse would be easy (easier?) as well, since the custom fields are now there.

      In the end, it’s probably not important, so I’m not begging you to devote your time and energy into that project as well!

      The only thing that I’ve found is that I use a custom mood theme on my LJ. I modified the admin options so that it locates the right images, but my mood theme is .png files not .gif and I use all of the moods, rather than just the parent moods. Because of this, I made a new moodslist.txt (moodslistpng, moodslistjpg) and uploaded it, which works great… until the next update is downloaded. Any chance that the file can be modified so that it accepts gif, png or jpg?

      Thanks again for all of your hard work!

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   2. Tania (digsite) posted August 10, 2008 @ 8:40 pm.

      Julia,

      I will make a note of what you said so I can revisit the ideas down the road.

      I don’t know that there’s any limitation to what image file type can be in moodslist.txt I’ll make a note on that as well tho to look into it. ;)

      Reply to Tania (digsite)

Just wanted to pop over and thank you for picking up this project. I noticed the update notification through my WP console. I had a hacked version of 1.99 myself and made changes to support LJ/WP updates. I’m glad to see this fork and the continued support for a great plugin!

1. Tania (digsite) posted August 11, 2008 @ 9:52 pm.

   Hi Duncan,

   I bet a few people have done that same thing with this plugin. It’s a good plugin but with some problems because of neglect.

   If you made any changes to your copy that you would like to see added to this one, please let me know. 2.1 should be available in a few weeks. I hope you can give suggestions after you take a look at that one.

   Thanks!

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