Vox Tip: Full Cross-Posting

Feb 6, 2007 at 2:09 PM
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In our last release, we launched the ability to do full cross-posting to TypePad and/or LiveJournal. We've had cross-posting functionality for a while now, but prior to this release we'd only send an excerpt of the post to TP or LJ. The excerpts only include the first few lines of the post and all the images and formatting are stripped out. For some people, that's the exact behavior they want in their cross-posting functionality. Some of us, on the other hand, wanted the option to completely replicate our Vox posts to the other site, and that's where the full cross-posting comes in.

If you enable full cross-posting, your entire post will be cross-posted to your other blog, with all of the formatting, pictures and assets intact. The media assets are clickable and linked back to their originals on Vox, and everything should pretty much look like it does on your Vox blog.

To enable this feature, you need to reconfigure your other blog - you can't just change the setting. Go to Account, and then click on Outside Services. If you already have another blog configured, then you should see a link under "Your other blog" to reconfigure. Put in your other blog's credentials, authorize, and then check the "Yes, send full post to this blog" box. Save, and you're done. From now on, when you choose to cross-post your Vox entries to your other blog, it will be the full versions instead of excerpts. If you ever decide to go back to excerpts, then just follow this procedure again and don't check the box.

Whichever option you choose will apply to all your posts, so you'll either always cross-post just an excerpt, or always cross-post the full post. Read "Cross-posting from Vox" for more tips and information.

-- Steve

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Izzard is God.

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Always an awesome job at Vox! Curious though...how long before we can cross post FROM TP or LJ? Especially TP which tends to be preferred for professional use. I don't really want my personal Vox blog posts on my Typepad but there are often things I post there that I would love to have on my Vox...

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Feb 6, 2007
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You can currently import posts from TypePad and LiveJournal. Just go to Organize -> Posts, and then click on Import. Give it your TP or LJ url and it will find posts that you can import. It works for Blogger as well, and pretty much any other site that has a feed.

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Well, this is rather helpful! Thanks!

This is good, but it could be great. The ability to pass edits along from Vox to Typepad would be the perfect tool. One of my favorite features about Vox is how easy it is edit a post. In fact, I'm so happy with it that I'll frequently write a post quickly, post it, and then go back quickly and fix spelling/grammar and then rename picture files. But none of these edits make their way back to Typepad, which is a shame.

Is this something Six Apart is going to fix?

Because of the lack of posting clients for VOX like LJ, I prefer to write on LJ and import to Vox. I know you can import, but I find the experience rather curiously difficult. It doesn't remember your blog's URL or use the "outside blog" you've set up already. It seems to only be grabbing entries from the RSS feed, which means any entries with any privacy applied cannot be imported. Considering you already authenticate my external blog's credentials, I'd love to see the Import functionality improved to a) remember those credentials, and b) use them to import protected posts. That would make my life wonderful and greatly expand my vox usage. Thanks!

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This is the feature that brought me back to Vox. So thanks for that. :)

Now for the ungrateful feature begging segment: being able to send the tags along would be fantastic. (As it is, I have to go to Livejournal and edit tags each time.) Of course, in a perfect world, I could somehow link livejournals and have them show up as lj user=... on the livejournal end, but I won't hold my breath, there. :) Tags sure would be nice, though!

Wonderful feature, really.

Unless of course, if you go into Live Journal to edit the post or add tags and then the pictures go Kaput. OH well...

Yes, I know it's only a peanut butter cup, but I expect the world from it.

It would be nice however, if you guys really did buy Live Journal, if I could add my Live Journal friends to my Vox Neighborhood and my Vox Neighbors to my LIve Journal friends. Then we could all play in one sandbox instead of shoveling sand back and forth between two sandboxes.

(And then when you're done fixing live journal, could you please buy up Five Across and fix the mess they made of NHL Connect? Pleasepleaseplease?

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Sounds GREAT!

Now when can we cross-post to non-Six Apart blogs? That's what I'm hoping for!

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Thank you! You guys are awesome!

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I have a suggestion, don't you guys think it'd be cool of I could also import my LJ posts to Vox? And then my Friends-Only posts can be set to only be viewable to my family and friends. Because my LJ is Friends-Only. Of course I made my Vox to be my Public Blog in purpose (since my LJ is Friends-Only), but some people (I found out) who have been my friends online for ages have also signed up to Vox but still don't have an LJ. And I trust them enough to read my LJ Friends-Only posts.

I just think that X-posting Friends-Only posts and automatically turning them to be viewable to Friends/Family here on Vox would be cool. But regardless, you guys are doing a good job. And I love Vox. Whoever came up with the idea to have QotD was also awesome! Thanks!

Eeek! Eddie! So yes, the comment is completely irrelevant, but you don't understand how seeing him on here made my night. Thx for that!

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You guys are awesome! I've been waiting for this. I love you! :D

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My most wanted feature, been using it and loving it so much more than excerpts. Thank you!

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I'm using it already :)

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I just wanted to say thanks for adding LJ cross-posting support! I imagine this has made many-a-user very happy!

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I love this, being both LJ & Vox user, but sadly it doesn't seem to work for me at the moment - another test later and I shall see.

I love being able to import from LJ to Vox as work has (boo hiss!) blocked access to LJ (too popular?) - currently I rather tortuously post to LJ via e-mail, then often import (badly formatted) posts to Vox, then reformat!

"It would be nice however, if you guys really did buy Live Journal, if I could add my Live Journal friends to my Vox Neighborhood and my Vox Neighbors to my LIve Journal friends. "

Er, [a] I agree - nice idea but [b] they did!

Six Apart owns Typepad, Movable type, Vox & Live Journal - they are just sepeate services used for different reasons!

I love both :)

YES!!! Finally got it to work :) :) THANK YOU VOX!

I created a crossposter from wordpress to vox. Check it out at www.acedanger.com/vox-crossposter.

It would be nice to import your private posts.
It would also be nice to cross post friends and family entries to LJ.
I want to use vox full time, but can't because LJ friends won't come over and play.

I tend to do just the opposite. I do my post in LJ and import it here. I wish my mood icons would cross over too. I have to always insert them manually from my collection here and then there are in a square with file name on it. I don't like that.

When will Vox --->> Blogger and vice versa?

Lots of great blogs on Blogspot and people get lazy and don't go to my Vox, haha.

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