Crossposting WordPress posts to MySpace
JISHOU, HUNAN — Before I upgraded WordPress and trashed my MySpace layout overlay, I had a WP plugin that automatically inserted my posts into my MySpace page.
That plugin, MySpace Crossposter, doesn’t work anymore. The new code in WP 2.6 effectively killed it, and its developer (it seems) is not maintaining the plugin anymore.
What to do?
I rarely visit MySpace. I’m more a Facebook man. But I would like to advertise this blog on MySpace to get more readers, so I needed a replacement for the outmoded plugin. The solution is easy.
Use a widget to grab your WP blog’s (or any) RSS feed and insert it into your MySpace profile. I found a nice little news feed widget at SpringWidgets. Enter your blog’s RSS feed URL, customize the look of the widget, then copy and paste the code into your MySpace profile. No plugin woes!
Here’s what it looks like.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
This looks great but where do you get the code to copy? I have downloaded and installed on desktop but do not find the code. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gina
September 30th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
The widgets site has a button at the top left to click on to get the code.
First click on “Customize this widget” to set width, border, color, etc. The widget on display will be what yours will look like. Then click on “Click here to get the code.” A “Share this widget” window will pop up over the customized widget with a bunch of icons for various websites (MySpace, Facebook, WP, etc.). Once you choose the website, the code appears inside the same window. From there you can copy the code, then paste it into your MySpace profile. I put mine at the end of “About me.”
Holler if you need more help.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Thanks! That is awesome! Have a great day!