Live Journal Plugin Pack Release 3

Anonymous – You need to login to WordPress as a user with permissions to change the Plugin settings. In the administrative interface there should be a Plugins menu item. I am assuming of course that you are using WordPress 1.2 or later since there are no plugins for earlier versions.

KyleGM – I will look into it. I don’t fully understand the second suggestion. Could you elaborate on it for me and/or include a picture or something. Sorry if I am a little slow, it happens sometimes ??

arghnoname – Ok, when you post to LiveJournal (as in it actually shows up) is the unt_lj_entry field being set? If not, then that is likely the problem, though why it isn’t being set is a bit of a mystery. I can help you track it down. In the meantime, if it isn’t being set, we can try to manually set the ID and see if the synching works then.
Manually setting an ID is somewhat risky, you could squash an old post. However, if you know the ID of a fairly recent one, it should be possible to do it safely. Since you were able to post previously, I am guessing at least some of the old posts on WordPRess have unt_lj_entry values. So what you do is find the highest unt_lj_entry field, then try to guess how many LJ entries you have written since then including deleted ones. Then add like 10 and set the unt_lj_entry field to that calue using the WordPress meta data interface (with the update and delete buttons at the bottom of the edit page) and work your way down until you can overwrite the last entry on your LJ. I usually create a new test post specifically for this purpose on my LJ and then wait until WP overwrites it.
Also, double check that the unt_lj_synch meta field has a value of ‘checked’ because if it doesn’t, that could be a problem as well.

Thank you unteins.
Issue #4: I’m using IE6. When I try it with Firefox 0.9, it works. But with IE it doesn’t retain the last LJ pic you used when you edit a WP post. In both browsers however, the custom field unt_lj_userpic is blank. For some reason, FireFox is able retain the userpic.

KyleGM – Ok, I will look into it, I think I can fix it….we’ll see ??

Anonymous – the field is blank because the picture is set to default, I am not sure why it isn’t saving, but I will try to take a look into it.

Fantastic. I don’t have to hack the path statements for the CSS any more, and the additional features are great. How do you find the time for this?

jackiefg – If all you want is moods and music I would forgo the LJ Extras plugin entirely, it is way more clutter than you need. You can just add the following meta tags to your post in the Advanced Edit screen
unt_lj_music – Then put the music you are listening to as the value
unt_lj_mood – Type in the mood you are in
OR
unt_lj_moodid – look at the moodlist.txt file and select the number for the mood.
One thing to try to make it work is to edit the ljsynch.config.inc file and find the line that says :
$journals[‘LJusername’][‘password’] = [‘LJpassword’];
change it to:
$journals[‘test’][‘password’] = [‘test’];
The test account is a LJ test account that should allow the plugin to succesfully talk to the LJ servers which is probably where things are going wrong for you.
However, I have decided to rewrite the whole set of plugins into a single plugin with configuration options. This means that you should be able to disable all the the parts that don’t apply to you and get the nifty interface bits just for the ones you need.

Argh, the anonymous response there was from me….stupid forum…
AndySocial – How do I find the time? Uh…..you don’t want to know ?? Actually my wife is pretty understanding and she doesn’t mind me coding while we watch tv, so that works pretty well.
I’m glad you are enjoying them ??

Just wondering, can I use something similar to an LJ cut in WordPress with this hack?

Don’t bother answering my question cuz I just saw the new version of the hack.. Umm but I have another question.. :S Does it do [lj cut text="TEXT"] Blah blah blah [/lj-cut] ? Or is that feature still under construction?

I have that on the to do list…probably in the next real version release.

I don’t officially support 1.2 beta, so if something goes weird, uhm, upgrade to 1.2 release.
Anyway, here are some answers.
The ljmoods.config.inc is now ljmoods.config.php and lives in the config folder.
The files in the config folder should be left in the config folder as a subfolder of wp-content/plugins.
LJ Mood Icons and LJ Music don’t make any changes to your writing interface. LJ Extras will add the GUI elements and must be added if you want to have the GUI stuff, but there are problems with this.
I plan to release a newer version that unifies the plugins and at the same time makes the package more flexible (so that you can actually do what you are trying to do)
In the meantime, you can manually add unt_lj_music as a custom post field and unt_lj_moodid (look at config/moodlist.txt to see what numbers you can use for moodid) or unt_lj_mood to store the mood.

So I installed this, and it seems to work pretty well, except that no matter what I do, I can’t get the mood images to show up in my blog. Any ideas?

bakaneko – try setting a post with the mood angry selected from the drop down list. There should be an icon for that one. If you manually type in a mood, then you will never get an image….though I hope to write an option that will try to guess the right mood from the text entry as well….
Let me know how that goes