Jen’s Corner

Well, LJXP isn't working for me right now. It's either (a) something with my GoDaddy host that I'm not allowed to do; (b) something I've got messed up with my WordPress install; (c) computers hate me; or (d) some combination of the above.

That's ok though - I've got a satisfactory kludge to meet my needs.

I can write posts w/ Journler, and I can format them pretty much how I want to - it's totally WYSIWYG. Journler can post both to my WordPress blog and to my LJ. It does this by bringing up another window, where it shows my post w/ HTML. I choose the blog I wish to use - at this point I can drop in the LJ code snippet for the header you see above (if you're reading this on LJ).

The sad part is I wrote an AppleScript that dropped it right into the Journler post - and it worked! But it was HTML code to make the cute border, and links and everything - so when I went to post, the < and > got oh so helpfully translated to & l t ; and & g t ;. Sigh. See? Here's the snippet:

<p style='border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;'><b>Originally published at <a href='http://www.robandjen.com/jen/'>Jen's Corner</a>. You can comment here or <a href='http://www.robandjen.com/jen/XXX/'>there</a>.</b></p>

It would've worked perfectly - all I'd have to do is change the XXX to the wordpress posts' url.

So! My fix is, instead, to use SOHO notes, which I love. I've got the code snippet in a Note, and the note is set to a spot on my right-click mouse menu. Works fantastically - I didn't need to bother w/ AppleScript. Actually, SOHO Notes duplicates Journler in a lot of ways - maybe I should just go with that. Hmm. Gotta see if it will post to both blogs. Plus, Journler, while powerful, pretty, and cool just bugs me because the name is misspelled.

So again! I'm extremely pleased with this solution - that I solidified while writing this post. Awesome!

</end of completely boring geekness - as well as (hopefully!) the end of test posts!>