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[bubosquared]

I should be doing NaNo stuff, or at least poking at website stuff/redesigns/whatever, or doing something productive. Instead, I'm playing Bejeweled. Because apparently I've been transported back to 2001.

Questions for the Magic Eight-Ball that is my friendslist:

1. I'm trying to find a free content management system that will let me have both categories/top level tags (e.g. "quotes," "stories," "art") and tags/subtags (e.g. fandom and pairing tags for the stories). any suggestions? Or would I be better off going with eFiction for the stories and just doing the other pages by hand?

2. I'm starting to accept that it'll be impossible to import my LJ including tags. It'll take me a while, but I can and will back up nearly six years of entries to a wordpress blog, including comments, then re-tag them. I'll find a workaround for the friendslocked ones (although I'd appreciate any tips). What I'd want to know is, is there a way to selectively crosspost to one or more of several LJs? Preferably one that works with shared journals?

3. Any othe recommendations for Wordpress plugins are also welcome.

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[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

1) I think Wordpress works really well for fiction, actually. first, it has categories that *can* form a tree structure if you want - as in, you declare that harry/draco is a child-category of HP, if you want. Yet that is not how I do it. I like using categories for fandom, tags for pairings (yes, tags! I used to use a plugin called Jerome's keywords, but now tags are native in WP), and any other keywords I liked - in this recent install of WP I made I have both the native tags AND Jerome's keywords, and though I haven't made a system using those yet I can totally see one used for pairings and the ther for genre considerations of notations of theme, warning etc, like

Category: HP + WPtag: Harry/Draco + keywords: kink, blowjob, xrated

Some people use the category for rating or warning also, so that a fic is in the category: fandom and the category: PG at the same time - all these things are mostly useful for the index pages that go along, and for searches, of course.

Here, I host a few people's fic-WP, you can look at how they did it?

http://lallybroch.anatsuno.net/fic/ || http://chaya.anatsuno.net/


2) to selectively crosspost, you have tos tart looking into the mutiple blog-posting clients. I know how to selectively crosspost to several LJ platform journals w/ semagic, but I don't think it works for other systems. BUT! I know Scribefire and Deepest Sender both are Firefox add-ons which can post to several blog types (perhaps not AT ONCE, might be your issue there), and then there are the client software that are not embedded in FF, like Ecto - I know there are more though.

3)I'd make you a list but most of my WPs are old-ish installs, so it's not guaranteed that the plugins I loved work for a recent WP nor are needed. Still, get a Wordpress API key so you can power the Akismet anti-sam plugin, at least! that'll come in handy.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

1. I'm probably going to go with eFiction rather than WP for story archive, simply because I'll alraedy be installing a copy of WP on my domain, and it feels like overkill to install another, especially since I can do the same with a "lighter" piece of software.

2. You know, even though I've alrady been using semagic for crossposting, it hadn't occured to me it could be used for posting to WP. D'oh! Thanks! :D Can't use that at work, but I can always manually crosspost from work if need be.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, and nearly forgot:

3. The Akismet plugin is native now, apparently, or at least I've seen it in a clean install. It will be used, oh yes. :D

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

the akismet is native, but the API key is not - was why i mentionned it. :D

(Semagic CAN be used for posting to other systems? really?i have to figure that out!)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

It's listed here/a>, which makes me think it's possible! :D

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Think further back than 2001--

Dave is watching Space Above and Beyond

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

!!!!!

Dave is clearly MADE OF AWESOME! :D