How to post daily del.icio.us links to your MT blog.
As I wrote on my previous post on del.icio.us, I will now explain how to automate the link posting. Better, we will see how to post daily del.icio.us links to your Movable Type (or Wordpress) blog. Following this procedure, del.icio.us bookmarks will automatically show up on your Movable Type blog, once every 24 hours. Good examples of the output are: Micropersuasion (Steve Rubel), Macchianera, my blog.
First of all, open your account on del.ioc.us. Once you are in, start with the process.
- Go to del.icio.us/settings/[your_username]/daily where your_username is the login name used to enter to del.icio.us services. In my case, as an example: del.icio.us/settings/giusec/daily;
- start to fill the empty fields (see following points);
- job_name: This can be whatever you like, just give it a name. Important: this is not the post title. It's just a name. I called my first one "giusec Links";
- out_name: your MT login.
- out_pass: your MT password.
- out_url: this is the absolute URL of mt-xmlrpc.cgi script and will depend on the software you use. For MT users is usually http://[blogname]/mt-xmlrpc.cgi. In my case, http://giusec.net/blog-mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi. For Wordpress it should be something like: http://[blogname]/xmlrpc.php (I am not a WP expert, sorry);
- out_time: is the time you'd like the links to be posted every 24 hours. The value should be between 0 and 23, based on GMT. For Central European Users (like me; I live in Milan): GMT = CET+1. I have this set to 2 GMT, so my post will be generated at 3am;
- out_blog_id: Should be 1, if you have only one MT blog. Otherwise log into your MT control panel, click on the entries icon and look at the URL. My URL is: http://giusec.net/blog-mt/mt.cgi?__mode=list_entries&blog_id=2. Well, blog_id is = 2;
- out_cat_id: this one is optional, if you want to categorize your automatic posts. You should be able to find the ID by logging into MT control panel and clicking the Categories icon. Put your mouse over the Category you want to choose and look at the URL. You will get something like: http://giusec.net/blog-mt/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=category&blog_id=2&id=8. Well, the blog_id is 2 and the Category_id is 8.
Now you can Submit your Query and simply wait for the automatic post (of course you are supposed to add some links to your del.icio.us list in the next 24 hours). Sleep well.
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