fury

That won't include comments though.

I'm using LJCrossPost. It does what I need it to do. And since Facebook draws from the RSS feed that Livejournal makes, it puts the same little header saying it was originally posted at my site at the top of the notes on Facebook too.

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ceo

Wow, still? They've had that same system for like 8 years. Oiy. No wonder I stopped using mine ages ago. And to think I was an early adopter too.

Kayla

I remember using Deadjournal years ago too... weird stuff.

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fury

I have had Livejournal for a loooooooong time. I had to get an invite to use it, I remember that. I've been a paid member for some time, and will likely not be renewing my paid membership (needed to embed your journal to a website without using iframes). I still read my friends page there, since a lot of my friends are on LJ, and I read several communities there.

I still have to sort some things out with Wordpress though too. Eventually I will need archives to display (they arent there now because I didn't put them into my very basic template). But aside from that, I like how it looks and works.

I've heard quite a few people saying that WP takes up a lot of resources for high traffic sites.. I don't really consider my site to be high traffic, but I also don't want to deal with issues down the line.. How do the plugins like Super Cache or whatever work?

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DewKnight

wp-super-cache takes all of the php / mysql that happens when somebody loads your wordpress website and makes them a static html page (except for plugins that have been written to override the cache). Whenever you make a post or somebody makes a comment (depending on your settings) the cache for those pages will be regenerated. Anybody who is logged in or has left a comment does not see a cached page to make it more friendly to them.

Basically it cuts out your mysql and php enough to really largely cut down on resource usage

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fury

Hmmm I may have to consider this plugin then. I looked at it, but the install looked complicated at a glance. All the other plugins I used just had a single php file that you put in the plugins folder and click activate and that's it...

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DewKnight

wp-super-cache is that easy to. Upload the folder to the plugins directory, go activate it, then go to the settings page for it and enable the cache.. You're done. Check your site to make sure it shows up correctly (that it wrote to the htaccess file correctly) WordPress › WP Super Cache WordPress Plugins

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fury

I guess I just assumed it was hard to install because the instructions were longer than the rest :P

I have a question though. I installed it, and it created the cache folder, but there isn't a .htaccess file in there. There are HTML files, but no htaccess file. The site seems to be moving much faster... but I thought it said logged in users aren't shown static files? Maybe I am getting a steady flow of traffic and them seeing the static .html pages is making my php pages load faster???

I also see on the settings page it says: Mod Rewrite rules cannot be updated!

I read the installation page, and it shows what the .htaccess should look like. I do have my ending and starting deals in there, but I have a bunch of my own rewrite rules in there too, and the WP stuff is after that. I manually put in the rules and conditions that it lists.. Only thing I can think of is that the directory it says doesn't exist.

The bolded part is where I assume it's looking for the .htaccess file. Problem is, that directory does not exist. I have WP set up so that robmonroe.net and robmonroe.net show the same thing. In the WP settings, it asks for the site URL, and then the blog URL, which I have set to /blog/...

Help?

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DewKnight

It doesn't place an htaccess file in the cache folder, but in your root for the blog.

So your blog is installed in the public_html and not in /blog ?

You can always try copying over the text it gives you on the config page to your htaccess file. Once it comes down to the actual coding it gets where I can't be of much help lately, haven't done any real coding in years

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