How to Get Livejournal Crossposter working in WP 2.5

One of the plugins I use on a regular basis is LiveJournal Crossposter, since I have several friends who are on LJ. However, ever since WP 2.3 or so, I've had to go into to the wp_options table and manually update the settings for this plugin after upgrading WordPress. I decided to do a clean install when I upgraded to WP 2.5 and discovered that this plugin will not activate without a small change to the code.

To get this plugin working in WP 2.3 or greater, manually update ljxp_username and ljxp_password in the wp_options table. I have found that just entering my username does the trick, and I can enter my password from the LiveJournal Settings tab in the WP Admin Panel. If that doesn't work for you, manually update ljxp_password by generating an MD5 hash and pasting the result into ljxp_password.

To resolve the WP 2.5 activation error, open lj_crosspost.php and replace:

if(version_compare($wp_version, "2.1", "<")) {
require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-includes/template-functions-links.php');
}

with

if(version_compare($wp_version, "2.3", "<")) {
require_once(ABSPATH . '/wp-includes/link-template.php');
}

The author hasn't updated this plugin for awhile now, but the Google Code LJXp issues list is a good place to look if you're having other problems with this plugin.

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