Crossposting to Multiple Journals? Yes Please!

[loqia]

Recently, I decided to migrate my custom blog system to WordPress. The only problem? The old code had native support for cross-posting to multiple Danga-based journals at once.

Such functionality seemed to be sadly lacking in the existing crossposting plugins, so I wrote a new one.

Life is good.

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[branchandroot]

*sparkles at you* Thank you so much! I've kept thinking 'I should really try to do this' and kept finding other things to do, like, um, vacuuming. I shall take this and test it out and report back.

May I make a feature request for future development? One of the things I've had trouble with is crossposting a whole lot of entries at once; there seems to be a function time-out from the journal end at right about 200 posts. Would it be possible to do 'crosspost all' in batches of, say, fifty at a time? That way, even a big backlog could be posted to populate a new journal, or all entries could be updated at once on the danga-site if some global change was made on the wp site.

[loqia]

Bulk crossposting is actually not something I've as of yet implemented (mostly because I have literally thousands of posts at at least three journals, and the thought of making the server do those all at once makes me shudder a bit).

But the idea of doing batches... hrm. Say... by date or by category perhaps? I'm just trying to think of a way to break it down in a way that will make sense to Joe Random User.

I'll have a bit of a poke at it when I do v0.1.3 (probably over the weekend) and see what I can come up with.

Edit: Of course, I should also say; if you actually want in to help on the code (I am, after all, using your cut stuff already I do believe), I'd be more than happy to give you access to the repository.

[branchandroot]

*nods* My spouse and I have batted around a few ideas for bulk crossposting. When he gets back next week I'll talk with him and see if we come up with anything. I actually think the best way would be two-pronged. One part at the interface, where the user could choose a category/categories or date span to be crossposted, and one just at the code level that only sends x many at a time, so the server doesn't get hammered. I'll kick it around and let you know if we come up with anything that seems useful.