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xPollinate - Windows Live Writer Cross Post Plugin
xPollinate is a Windows Live Writer plugin that enables you to cross post your blog entries to other blogs, as well as other social networking sites via Ping.FM. Use it to increase your exposure, reach more audiences, or even to create backups of your blog posts.
You can download the plugin from the associated CodePlex site, or from the Windows Live Writer Plugin Gallery here.
This plugin is based on another CodePlex plugin project (http://www.codeplex.com/clarius/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=6626) by Daniel Cazzulino, but with additional features and functionality.
Version 1.0.0.3 includes the following features:
- Cross post to multiple blogs at the same time
- Choose blogs to post to at cross post time
- Set plugin defaults through the options dialog, and override at posting time.
- Ability to turn comments and trackbacks (pings) on/off at the cross posted blog
- Add header or footer html to each cross posted entry
- Cross post to Ping.FM
- Supports triggers and services
- Post using blog, microblog, or status methods, simultaneously or individually
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April 11th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
Hi i am about to load in this plugin for LW something i have been looking for for some time now.
My ? is can it be possible to make it somehow work with the WP plugin All in one SEO pack.
So within your plugin it lets me fill in the extra fields the ALL in one SEO pack adds to each WP post page. like.
Title:
Description:
Keywords (comma separated):
This way it is added into the All in one SEO extra post areas for each new post or page??
Thanks
April 11th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Ok i loaded it in and i do not see it in LW???
Anything special i need to do to see it or make it work?
I am using the current version of LW Build 14.0.8050.1202
I would love to be able to post to many blogs at the same time.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Hi EddieM,
That isn’t the current version of Live Writer. The most current version is 14.0.8064.206. You can get it if you go to http://download.live.com. Just run through the installer again and it’ll upgrade Live Writer. You should see the plugin after that, but please let me know if you don’t.
It seems that this plugin keeps looking for a specific version of Live Writer, even though I tell it not to. I’ve posted a thread in the Live Writer developer forums about this, but so far have gotten no response.
Regarding your other question, it won’t be able to add those extra fields to Word Press. This plugin uses the same mechanism to post that Live Writer does itself, and Live Writer doesn’t yet have a way to set extra fields of data when posting to Word Press.
April 11th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Hi thanks when i did a check fpr updates it says i had the current version.
I did the update and not your plug is showing up but i am having a problem
It is not uploading the image to the other website.
Here is the LW site it is first going to.
http://lasvegasweddingsphotography.com/ you can see the photo of the guitar player.
Now using your plugin i sent the same post to this site and i get no image.
http://atmoreweddingphotography.com/
?? any clue on this?
Thanks
April 11th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Interesting, I haven’t seen that before. Are you using a certain kind of image plugin for Live Writer?
My plugin looks for any relative urls in the source post (i.e. “/images/file.png”) and makes them absolute pointing to the source blog (e.g. “http://sourceblog.com/images.file.png”). It doesn’t actually upload any image files to the destination blog.
It looks like it is posting the local path to your images (file:///Documents and Settings/…).
I’ll look into it…
April 11th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
OK. I think I’ve fixed this. There is a new build here:
http://xpollinate.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25469#DownloadId=63674
You can see this post with images here:
http://www.lifeonplanetgroove.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/10/how-to-wall-mount-an-hp-touchsmart-iq800/
…has been cross posted here:
http://friedtothu.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-wall-mount-hp-touchsmart-iq800_11.html
…and via Ping.FM here:
http://adamtoth.tumblr.com/post/95371524/how-to-wall-mount-an-hp-touchsmart-iq800
Thanks for the feedback, let me know if that fixes it.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
test
April 12th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I can not leave a long blog post to you about your plugin it will not work i have been trying many times it just shows up bland so i am going to try and post it in parts.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
The new version working for the images now you can see the two links i posted before.
BUT the next problem that needs to be fixed is the categories and Tags look at the main post and you can see it shows categories and tags but in the cross post it now has no categories or tags making it not show up for the categories i would need it to be in or for the tag it needs to show up under.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
One other thing - not sure if this can be fixed - when i make a cross post and then re-edit the main post and repost it it works 100% in LW for the main blog but for the cross post it will not replace or update the cross post it just makes a new post so you then end up with two of them. Can this be fixed to?
April 12th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
This is just not working i can not post anything long at all do you have a e-mail address i can use???
April 13th, 2009 at 1:05 am
Hi EddieM,
Sorry for the comment not showing up. My blog is set to mark a post for moderation if it has more than a couple hyperlinks in it. It hasn’t been a problem so far but I’ve made a change that should help that.
Anyway, I’ve added your requests into the project site, and when I have some time in the next week I’ll try and work on those.
I haven’t had a need to use categories or tags for my cross posts, since I post to totally different blog engines, which have different levels of support for tags/categories/labels. I’ll see what I can do.
The duplicate post when editing is just how it works right now, the same as the WLW Cross Post plugin this plugin is based on. I’ll look into this one as well.
Thanks again for the feedback, keep it coming.
April 13th, 2009 at 1:13 am
If you register for an account at CodePlex, you can vote on these issues and also request more changes and features here:
http://xpollinate.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx
June 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
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September 5th, 2009 at 6:23 am
hey guy, seems the WLM has upgraded to a new version 14.0.8089.726 days ago.
September 5th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Thanks! I’ll post a new version of xPollinate ASAP.
October 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Love your tool but does not work with the current version of WLR. When can we expect an update. Are Donations taken?
October 12th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Hi everyone, sorry for the delay. I posted a new version, 1.0.0.3, that works with the new version of LiveWriter.
http://xpollinate.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=34348
January 20th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Live Writer is asking for a ping.fm “API Key”. Ping.fm says that it no longer uses api key for users only needed for app developers. Please help would like to use you app to cross post. Thanks
January 20th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Hi Joel,
I may have worded it poorly. It is your application key at Ping.FM:
http://ping.fm/key/
Enter that key, and you should be good to go.