Xanga Crosspost Plugin for WordPress

Keep your Xanga friends in the loop with this WordPress crossposting plugin. Every time you make a new WordPress entry, this plugin will take it and automatically post it over to your Xanga blog. That’s pretty much all it does.

If you are so inclined, this plugin will also allow you to use CSS to customize the look and feel of each post within Xanga based on the WordPress category it gets assigned. Note that “normal” blog posts can look different from “random” blog posts, and so on.

Thanks to Ryan Lee for the initial work and inspiration. I decided to write my own plugin because I wanted more customization and crossposting options.

Author: Joe Tan ([email protected])
License: GPL

Features:

  • Syndicate your posts automatically over to your Xanga blog
  • Look and feel of syndicated posts in Xanga can be customized with CSS based on WordPress categories
  • You can select which WordPress categories syndicate, and disable the plugin on a per-post basis
  • WordPress 2.1+: Future dated posts will show up as scheduled

Installation:

  1. Unpack / unzip the archive
    Note: If you already have a tantan directory from one of my previous plugins, you can safely overwrite existing files. Back up first just in case.
  2. Copy the entire “tantan” directory to your WordPress plugins directory ([WORDPRESS DIR]/wp-content/plugins)
  3. Go into your WordPress admin, click on the “Plugins” tab, and then activate “Xanga Crosspost”
  4. Click on the “Options” tab, then click “Xanga Crosspost” and follow the on-screen instructions to link your blog with your Xanga account
  5. You’re done! Just blog as you normally would, and your entries should show up in your Xanga

Customizing Xanga Posts’ Look and Feel:
You’ll need a baseline knowledge of CSS. Each post in Xanga will be wrapped with a <div> tag with the category names assigned as the class attribute. You can then add custom CSS to your Xanga look and feel to customize these entries.

If you want to show comment counts in your syndicated posts, try installing my Get Comments Count plugin.

Download the Plugin ›

Support:
If you are having problems setting up or customizing this plugin, please visit the support group for help. Someone may have already posted a solution to your problem!

More Documentation: Modification History, Known Issues and Bugs

Bug Reports:
Post bugs or feature requests to the Google Project page.

Developers:
Browse source code at the Subversion repository.

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