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How to: Del.icio.us links auto-post

Several people have asked me about the Del.icio.us posts. These are generated automatically by a function in your Del.icio.us account.

Get started

To find this function, go to your Del.icio.us account. Go to Settings. Under Blogging, click daily blog posting. Click add a new thingy.

Now the following settings will vary based on your blog’s platform and/or provider…

Edit: Big thanks to Conservative Belle for the GMT conversion table link!

WordPress (WordPress.com not confirmed)

- job_name this can be anything
- out_name your WordPress username for your blog
- out_pass your WordPress password for your blog
- out_url the full URL of the XML-RPC interface for your WordPress installation, which will be http://www.yourdomain.com/xmlrpc.php, or http://www.yourdomain.com/directory/xmlrpc.php if WordPress is installed into a subdirectory
- out_time the hour (from 0-23 in GMT) to post your links at every day
- out_blog_id your blog ID number (can be any number, probably 1 if you have only one blog)
- out_cat_id optional: this is the ID number for the category you would like these to be posted to

Typepad

Courtesy of Kyle Eslick

- job_name this can be anything
- out_name your Typepad username
- out_pass your Typepad password
- out_url http://www.typepad.com/t/api
- out_time the hour (from 0-23 in GMT) to post your links at every day
- out_blog_id In typepad, this can be found by clicking on the manage link. It should appear in the address menu link this: http://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/manage?blog_id=[Blog ID Number]
- out_cat_id optional: this is the ID number for the category you would like these to be posted to

Movable Type

Courtesy of Kyle Eslick

- job_name this can be anything
- out_name your MT username
- out_pass your MT password
- out_url http://blogname/mt-xml rpc.cgi
- out_time the hour (from 0-23 in GMT) to post your links at every day
- out_blog_id your blog ID
- out_cat_id optional: this is the ID number for the category you would like these to be posted to

Blogger / Blogspot

Courtesy of Kevin Lim

- job_name this can be anything
- out_name your Blogger username
- out_pass your Blogger password
- out_url http://videoblogging.info/tools/translator/
- out_time the hour (from 0-23 in GMT) to post your links at every day
- out_blog_id your Blogger blog ID
- out_cat_id this doesn’t work in Blogger, put any number here.

Got it? Good!

I hope I explained everything OK, feel free to holler at me via the comment form below if anything’s unclear.

Magnolia Weekend

Caution: Busy weekend ahead!

Jim, Jess and I will be setting up and preparing for the the Magnolia Festival today and tomorrow. A big thanks to Jeremy Haynes and the NSR staff for lending me the equipment I needed to finish setting up the booth!

The Bama Angels site has really taken off and I’m hoping to get the word out about it this weekend and in coming months. I’m looking for news and events posters, so if any area SA members are interested, holler at me!

Sharing

I had set up an auto-post thingy in Del.icio.us, but it hasn’t posted yet so I don’t know if there’s a problem, or it has to be up a certain time before it starts? (scratching my head on that one…) I have been sharing plenty via Google Reader though, so feel free to check those out anytime!

Funny moment

Jessie and I stopped by the grocery store last night to pick up a few things I needed to make dinner. I had stopped at the pharmacy section to look for some allergy medicine for her and when I turned around, she was standing in front of the acne products with a funny look on her face. I asked her what she was looking for, and she pointed to one of the bottles and says, “This says it’s the best acne treatment, is that true?”

I replied that I didn’t know (because all those products either make me break out or dry out my skin something awful!), and asked her why she wanted to know. She said, “I think I got a bump on my face and I need something to make it go away.”

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that her “bump” was a mosquito bite.

I laughed and told her that I had something for it already at home and not to worry, we’d take care of it.