Using Blog Writer with LiveJournal.com

Posting to LiveJournal.com (LJ) from Blog Writer is supported starting version 0.9.133. LiveJournal uses a different API than most other platforms (MovableType and Metaweblog being the common XML-RPC apis). Although LJ also supports the older Blogger API (v1) and the Atom API, we decided to integrate some of LJ's features by using the xml-rpc API.

Account Setup:
During account set up, choose the following settings:

1. Account Type: LiveJournal
2. Account username: your LJ username
3. Account password: your LJ password
4. API Endpoint URL: http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc
   

For the file upload mechanism, you can select "Blog's file upload feature" if you have paid LiveJournal account. If you use a free LJ account, then your options to upload pictures would to use FTP (or drag and drop images from your online site such as Flikr).

Scrapbook Support:
If you have a paid LiveJournal account, you can upload images to your Scrapbook (fotobilder). Blog Writer uploads images to a gallery named Blog Writer Media in your Scrapbook (all images uploaded to this gallery are public). To upload images to your Scrapbook, make sure you choose "Blog's file upload feature" for the file upload mechanism during the account set up.

Basic LJ Features in Blog Writer:
Since Blog Writer is generic posting tool, only a few of the LiveJournal features have been integrated to the existing UI.

1. All posts made from Blog Writer are public entries in LJ, except for drafts (see below).
2. Posts made as drafts will be private entries in LiveJournal. Similarly, when downloading recent posts, private entries in LJ will be shown as drafts in Blog Writer.
3. LiveJournal does not support categories. The categories dialog in Blog Writer is used to display LJ moods (currently you can select only one LJ mood).
4. LJ Friends and related features are currently not supported in Blog Writer.
5. Tagwords - there is a new tagspace for LiveJournal in Blog Writer UI. When downloading recent posts from LJ, the tags found in each of the LJ entries are associated with this tagspace. When posting to LJ, Blog Writer assigns all your tagwords (including other tagspaces such as Technorati) to your LJ entry tagwords field.

Tagspace for LiveJournal



Same tagspace is available in the Post Entry dialog. Inline tagging (i.e. adding a tag to a word or phrase within your post is not supported).

Technorati : Blog Writer, LiveJournal, Scrapbook, Zoundry, fotobilder
Del.icio.us : LiveJournal, Scrapbook, Zoundry, fotobilder