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Jul 26, 2005 / 7:39 am

Post to MT (3.2) from del.icio.us

in Movable Type

Last week, I started to use del.icio.us to post to my quicklinks section. And it works fine. I did this based on some tutorials. But, after moving to MT 3.2, it seemed that del.icio.us can not post to my quicklink anymore. Hmmm…

Editing my del.icio.us ‘daily blog’ posting settings

I will rewrite based on the tutorials.

First, log in to your del.icio.us. Go to your daily blog posting settings (del.icio.us/settings/username/daily). If you have not any settings, click on “add a new thingy”.

After that you need to fill in some fields. Here are what I have in the fields:

• job_name: this is just a name for the settings. You can give any name here to help you identify your settings.
• out_name: fill this with your username used to login to your Movable Type. The username must have the permission to create new post to the target weblog (my target weblog is Quicklink section).
• out_pass: you have to provide the API password (For use with XML-RPC and Atom-enabled clients). In your MT 3.2, you will have two types of password. The first is used to login to your MT, and the other one is the API password. If I am not mistaken, the previous version (MT 3.1x does not have this API password settings). Note: your API password can be different from your main password. To set the API password, go to your author list page, and edit the profile. You will see the input field.
• out_url: This is the location of your mt-xmlrpc.cgi, something like: http://yourdomain.com/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi.
• out_time: This is the time when you want your links on del.icio.us posted to your weblogs. I put 0 (zero) here. Because in my weblog settings, I already set the timezone into GMT+7. So, if I put 7 in this field, del.icio.us will post the links at 14:00. (GMT+14).
• out_blog_id: The weblog ID where del.icio.us should post your links to.
• out_cat_id: The category ID where new entries from del.icio.us should be placed. I am not sure about this too, because new entries are posted without no categories.

Now, I think I will post to my del.icio.us rather than writing entries from my MT for my quicklinks section. By the way, about displaying the links, you can modify your CSS. This is what you will have in your post:

<ul class="delicious">
<li>
<div class="delicious-link"><a href="/url/">description</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Extended</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: tag1, tag2, tag3)</div>
</li>
<li>
<div class="delicious-link"><a href="/url/">description</a></div>
<div class="delicious-extended">Extended</div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: tag1, tag2, tag3)</div>
</li>
</ul>

In my sidebar, I do not display the del.icio.us tags. I do this by adding .delicious-tags { display: none; }. You can customize it more if to suit your need. It will be easier because del.icio.us uses a real list. Go to Listamatic for more list customization. Enjoy!

• July 26th, 2005 • # 7:39 am