How to add additional WP.com blogs to crosspost?

Unfortunately, the way WordPress.com’s service works is by connecting the plugin (which the WP service views as “an app”) to a specific blog as its client. At the moment, this means the plugin can only cross-post to one destination blog, because it can only connect itself to one blog. As far as WP.com’s concerned, each of your blogs is its own separate account, even though they’re all associated with your account behind-the-scenes. It’s my hope that WordPress.com will change the way they limit apps’ access to your account for this reason, but I’m not sure when or if they will do this. ??

In the mean time, I understand from some users that you could use the self-hosted WordPress’s Network feature (formerly called “multisite”) to create multiple blogs with the same content that cross-post to different blogs on WordPress.com. As a disclaimer, please note that WP-Crosspost is beta software and has not been tested in this way.

Ah, okay. WP.com is great, limited and annoying. That is why I created WP.org MultiSites – parts of each are mirrors of my WP.com blogs.

I am not aware of that MultiSite function. You have to get a plugin just to crosspost with a MultiSite network. Your plugin is all that I was aware of for crossposting to WP.com. I will check it out.

Thank you for responding, a thorough explanation, and potential option.
And for a great plugin.

Cheers!

Hey Meitar,

As an alternative solution to this: Do you think it would be possible to duplicate the plugin (and rename some things within it I guess) and then connect the duplicate to another WP.com account and thereby crosspost every new post to two WP.com (or self-hosted) blogs?

Best,
Fabian

Yeah, that’d work, though it’s a little messy. That said, you should only have to rename the class name and its prefix private variable; all the internal option names are derived from the prefix, so changing the prefix should isolate the copy from its original.

The real solution to this is of course to write that feature into the plugin itself, but that’s a bigger job than I have the wherewithal to do right now.

Thanks for the heads up. Sounds like a bigger project there. I’ll try the easy way…

Just ran into this issue myself while trying to have it do two different blogs can cross-post to the main one.

Unfortunately, I can’t really figure out how the Network Feature works ?? Is there any kind of walkthrough on how to set it up to make it so two posts can post to a site?

As mentioned above, right now, WP-Crosspost can only be linked to one other blog. Multiple linkages are planned for the future but that feature is not implemented yet.

Yes, I saw ?? Thus why I was asking how the network thing worked in conjunction with this.

Ah. A Network is a special kind of WordPress installation. It’s not been tested with this plugin. If you install a a WordPress Network and try this plugin with its Sites, please let me know how it goes. ??