[9/30/07 - currently working with WordPress 2.3 (important details at end of post)]

[5/15/07 - currently working with WordPress 2.2 (details at end of post)]

[3/15/06 - modified plugin currently working with WordPress 2.0.2]

Through a bit of trial and error I’ve managed to come up with a (relatively) quick ‘fix’ to get Live+Press (a LiveJournal compatibility tool for WordPress) to play nice with WordPress 2.0.#. It’s not a pretty fix, but if you’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.0.#, have a LiveJournal and aren’t coping well without the functionality of the Live+Press plugin the changes I’ve made will suffice for the time being.

Pros:

• The ‘write’ page no longer breaks in WP 2.0.# once the plugin is activated.
• LiveJournal usertags (e.g. creepigurl, tiny_terrors) will be visible/functional in your WordPress install once again (without the plugin, they simply disappear from the entry).
• The WordPress post entry and edit entry functions both synch with LiveJournal, with all LJ options (mood, music, security, disable comments, ‘post to journal’, select user, etc)

Cons:

• Deleting an entry from WordPress will not synch with LiveJournal. The entry will have to be manually deleted from LiveJournal.
• Moodicons will not show in WordPress. I’m not sure if it is theme specific in my case or an error due to the upgrade. I have not used this option in the past therefore I am not sure if this option was ever functional on my site. <– Moodicons work just fine ~ I simply needed to edit the moodlist.txt file in order to use the custom mood theme I selected *oops*.

You will need to make a few simple changes to the following files in the Live+Press 1.5.2 plugin: LivePress.php, lpextras.php and lpeditjournal.php. The class-IXR.php, found in the wp-includes folder of your WordPress install, will need to be modified as well. The changes consist primarily of commenting out several lines and insert a couple of lines of code, but to be on the safe side be sure to back up your Live+Press files and class-IXR.php before you make any changes.

Noteworthy: Live+Press1.5.2 was installed prior to upgrading and active during the upgrade of my WordPress intall from 1.5.2 to WP2.0.#. The rich text editor is disabled in my WP 2.0.# install. Also, the Live+Press plugin was active when I copied the three edited files over the original files. I don’t know if these factors have any real bearing on whether or not the mods will work ~ but since I was asked…

LivePress.php

Edit:

• comment out line 11

lpextras.php

Edit:

• comment out line 77, 79-82

lpeditjournal.php

Edit:

• comment out line 113
• insert a new line @ 114 and add the code exactly as depicted on line 114 in the image below

class-IXR.php

• Line 526: find

  $contents .= trim($line)."\n";

  and change to

  $contents .= trim($line); //Unteins Fix Original: trim($line)."\n";

  (as in Unteins version of class-IXR.php).

• Line 497: comment out

  //echo '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars($request)."\n</pre>\n\n";

• Line 530: comment out

  //echo '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars($contents)."\n</pre>\n\n";

[Please note]

These changes are offered ‘as is’ and ‘use at your own risk’. I’m an HR manager by trade and playing around with code, etc. is something I do in my (extremely scarce) spare time ~ there is a good chance these alterations may cause Live+Press to ultimately be more ‘broken’ than ‘fixed’ (though the changes have worked on each of the four WordPress installs I maintain). If you have any questions or suggestions on how to properly ‘fix’ this plugin please feel free to comment below. I’ll try my best to respond in a timely manner ~ no promises, though =)

Support history for SoMuchGeek’s original plugin can be found ::here:: and in the wordpress.org support forums.

IMPORTANT! Remember to replace the current class-IXR.php, found in your wp-includes folder, with the modified version of the file. Otherwise you will receive a series of frustrating errors regarding lpextras.php on your ‘write entry’ page.

Text versions of the modified files can be found here:

• class-IXR.php
• LivePress.php
• lpeditjournal.php
• lpextras.php

[UPDATE 3/15/07] Unteins has adopted the changes above in the unsupported version of Live+Press (1.99 at the time of this writing). The modified plugin is available in a handy zip file on his site.

[UPDATE 5/15/07- QUICK FIX FOR WORDPRESS 2.2] Live+Press no longer appearing in your ‘Write Post’ screen? It’s a simple enough fix - edit the following files: lpsynch.php & lpextras.php.

Find this line:

if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'wp-admin/post.php') || strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'wp-admin/bookmarklet.php')){

and add the following bit just after the first parenthesis:

strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],'wp-admin/post-new.php') ||

I don’t know for sure but I do not believe Unteins is supporting the plugin any longer. I have been unable to access the plugin page on his site for quite some time.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to manually edit the LP files, you can just download the edited plugin here: ::Live+Press1.99.9::. I cleaned up the ‘options’ page - made it a bit less ‘ugly’. I bumped the plugin version to ‘1.99.9′ ~ not due to any significant change in code, just to differentiate the updated version from 1.99. That, and I’m very tired right now ;-p

[UPDATE 9/30/07] No changes to the code were necessary, however after upgrading my Wordpress install from 2.X2 to 2.3 I did need to to take a couple of extra steps to get rid of array errors on the ‘write’ page. First I deactivated the plugin. Then I deleted the “unt_livepress_options” from the ‘option name’ in the ‘wp_options’ table of my database (warning: do this at your own risk). I reactivated the plugin and navigated to the Live+Press option page (I needed to refresh as I received ‘LivePress is not installed’ error) where I set my options and re-entered my journal information. I’m not sure if these steps will be necessary for everyone - I could not get Live+Press to work until I did this, however.

Current Mood:  okay

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