2 posts tagged “cross-posting”
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
We're back with a new release with some features you're sure to enjoy.
Email Posts to Your Friends!
It’s a little-known fact, but not everyone reads their Vox neighborhood all the time. (In fact, we understand that some people have friends or family who aren’t on Vox yet!) But don’t fret – even if some folks haven’t accepted your Vox invites, you can share your life on Vox with them using good old-fashioned email.
We just added a feature where you can email an excerpt of a public post on Vox to anyone, whether or not they have a Vox account. Right after saving your post, you'll get the option to share it by entering in one or several email addresses. Right now the only way to access this option is after you save a post, so if you want to send something that you posted previously, just open it up to edit it, then save it to access the share option. (Don’t worry, we'll tweaking that part of the feature in future releases.)
So now there’s more ways to share your posts than ever! After you save your post, you can: choose your privacy level, send it to a Vox group using the still-in-beta Groups feature, and email it to those few remaining souls who haven’t yet discovered Vox for themselves. Around our office, we like to say [Vox is Love] and now we can say [Vox Loves Email]!
Group Design
If you’ve created a Vox group or are an administrator on a group, you can now pick from a bunch of Vox themes to customize the look of your group. Right now the available themes include Cityscapes and Clean/Minimalist. Personalized themes don’t work for Groups yet, but remember this is just the first phase – we’ll be adding new options for group designs in the future, in classic Vox style. (Tip: To pass the time while you wait for this feature, try inviting more members into your group, or discovering which groups you’ve missed out on, in the Explore tab.)
To pick your group’s theme, just go to any group you're an administrator of and click on the Settings tab.
Adding Friends and Neighbors
Humans! Humans in my Vox! Need another easy way to add friends and neighbors? Just do a search for people on the Explore page, and next to each person’s name, you’ll see a little link to let you add them to your neighborhood. If they’re already a friend, you’ll see a little icon reminding you about it. And these quick-add links show up in the About page of your friends’ blogs, too.
Full Cross-Posting
You can now choose a setting to allow for either cross-posting of full posts, or just cross posting of excerpts. Under the Account menu, click on Outside Services and find the check box under "Your other blog". The preference you set will apply every time you use the cross-posting option.
New Themes
Just because we've released personalized banners doesn't mean we're going to stop adding new themes to Vox. We've added some more themes from our banner contest winners (thanks Michael, Steven, Lynn & Katy!)
