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The community lj2wordpress is made for researching converting LiveJournals to WordPress blogs.

Contents 1 Research List 1.1 Things to Replicate 1.1.1 Setup 1.1.1.1 Importing LJ--with comments and security levels 1.1.2 Sociality 1.1.2.1 "Friending" and filters 1.1.2.2 Authenticated Friends Page 1.1.2.3 OpenID integration 1.1.3 Media and Mobile Integration 1.1.3.1 Image Management or Integration with gallery software or gallery plugins 1.1.3.2 Integration with sound/video media 1.1.3.3 Phone Posts 1.1.3.4 SMS Posting 1.1.4 Making and Managing Posts 1.1.4.1 Desktop posting/management clients 1.1.4.2 LJ-cuts and LJ user tags 1.1.4.3 Icons 1.1.4.4 Polls 1.1.4.5 Tags 1.1.4.6 Spellchecking 1.1.4.7 Crossposting to LJ 1.1.4.8 RSS and Atom Feeds 1.1.5 Comments 1.1.5.1 Threaded and/or paged comments 1.1.5.2 Comment management--screened? 1.1.5.3 Comment notifications 1.1.6 Templates/Layouts 1.1.7 Static page that can be used as a profile 1.1.8 Spam management 1.2 Desirable Features Not On LJ or More Relevant to WordPress 1.2.1 In-site search 1.2.2 Current reading and music 1.2.3 Statistics 1.2.4 Backups

[edit] Research List

[edit] Things to Replicate

[edit] Setup

[edit] Importing LJ--with comments and security levels

• Wordpress LJ Import
• Importing LJ entries with threaded comments into WordPress

[edit] Sociality

[edit] "Friending" and filters

• Roles and Capabilities
• Registered User Features

[edit] Authenticated Friends Page

• RSS Auth Digest

[edit] OpenID integration

• OpenID Comments for Wordpress
• VerseLogic's OpenID Plugin

[edit] Media and Mobile Integration

[edit] Image Management or Integration with gallery software or gallery plugins

• WPG2
• ImageManager 2.0

[edit] Integration with sound/video media

• Podcasting
• YouTube Video Gallery Plugin
• Vlog plugin
• FLV Video Player Plugin
• WP Single MP3 Player Plugin
• Fallen Media Filter -- Japanese?
• Videopop
• Audio Player WordPress Plugin
• Extreme Video Plugin 2.0

[edit] Phone Posts

• PhoneBlogz

[edit] SMS Posting

• LetMeParty

[edit] Making and Managing Posts

[edit] Desktop posting/management clients

• WordPress Desktop Client Search
• Weblog Client

[edit] LJ-cuts and LJ user tags

• Customizing the Read More -- no end
• LJ Plugin Pack Including LJ Synch Available
• Hide or Cut Post Text Plugin
• LJ user -- replaces <lj user=”username”> with the correct html code

[edit] Icons

• Post Avatar by garinungkadol
• Gravatar -- globally recognized avatars
• LJGravatar -- Gravatar plugin with LJ userpics integration

[edit] Polls

• WP Polls
• Democracy

[edit] Tags

• A Tag System Based on WordPress Categories
• WordPress Category Page Hacks
• Ultimate Tag Warrior -- seems to be very popular

[edit] Spellchecking

• Spell Checker Plugin for WordPress -- outdated, for 1.5

[edit] Crossposting to LJ

• LiveJournal Crossposter
• LivePress

[edit] RSS and Atom Feeds

• Enabling Atom 1.0 for WordPress
• Disabling RSS or Syndicated feeds -- if you don't want an RSS feed, you can disable it. You cannot do this on LiveJournal.

[edit] Comments

[edit] Threaded and/or paged comments

• Brian's Threaded Comments
• Dodo's Threaded Comments
• Kevan's Paged Comments -- not sure if it with threaded comments
• Paged Threaded Comments -- combines Brian's and Kevan's plugins
• WP PageNavi

[edit] Comment management--screened?

• Comment Moderation

[edit] Comment notifications

• Subscribe to Comments -- can be used with Subscribe to Comments Report and Stats

[edit] Templates/Layouts

• Theme Viewer
• Thought Mechanics Themes
• Themed Login and Registration Forms Plugin -- allows the login to be themed without messing with core code

[edit] Static page that can be used as a profile

• Pages

[edit] Spam management

We often don't think about this since LJ takes care of it for us

• Combating Comment Spam
• Spam Karma
• Bad Behavior

[edit] Desirable Features Not On LJ or More Relevant to WordPress

[edit] In-site search

I've seen this one requested a lot. Currently, LJSeek.com does any LJ searching, but it doesn't work for comments.

• Search Everything

[edit] Current reading and music

Vox users get this stuff.

• Now Reading

[edit] Statistics

LJ doesn't really give good statistics abilities, unless you're a Sponsored Community

• WP-Slimstat

[edit] Backups

Use to backup your data! Very important! Backup regularly

• WordPress Database Manager -- plugin for managing database backups; useful for people with limited database knowledge or access.
• WordPress Backups -- guide to making backups