Semagic and Dreamwidth

[andrewducker]

I keep meaning to get the laptop set up so I can post to DW from it. And then wanting my semagic macros. And then forgetting. So here's a post written at the desktop that I can use when I'm over at my other computer. And tag so I can find it later!

First, how to set semagic up to post to Dreamwidth.

Username:
<user name=[lj0] site=livejournal.com>

Embedding videos and suchlike:
<site-embed>[lj0]</site-embed>

Making a block of text smaller
<span style="font-size:smaller">[lj0]</span>

(For those who are curious I have these set up to keyboard shortcuts, so I can type andrewducker, select it, hit Ctrl-Alt-U and get andrewducker automatically. This is basically why I like semagic - ctrl-alt-i for an image, ctrl-b for bold, etc. As a heavy keyboard user it's incredibly useful.)

Comments

[andrewducker]

And now I can go over to my laptop and past those macros in!

[cahwyguy]

I miss the days of semagic. Since I've gone over to Wordpress for the main blog (Wordpress xposts to DW, and DW to LJ), I can no longer use the userhead stuff, and I can't as easily mention the music I listen to. Perhaps one of these day's I'll find a wordpress plugin that makes the wordpress editor a bit better.

[andrewducker]

You should be able to use it with Wordpress:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/using-semagic-to-post-to-my-blog
and
http://semagic.sourceforge.net/api.html

seem to indicate that it's possible.

[cahwyguy]

It looks like my site setup disables the services that semagic uses to post to Wordpress (xmlrpc). Oh well.