MySpace Crossposter v2.0a Released

Posted on September 11, 2007 by Roderick Russell

Version 2.0a of the surprisingly popular WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter plugin is now released.

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The old project page for all 1.x versions is located here.

What It Does
The WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter is a WordPress plugin that publishes all of your WordPress blog entries to your MySpace blog at the time of publication. This allows you to publish as usual on your WordPress blog, but to also capture and retain your MySpace audience without any extra effort.

Each time that a new WordPress post goes live it will automatically be sent to MySpace for publication.

Users of the plugin have the option of publishing a notification or a whole story to MySpace.

Notification-style crossposting is the default, which will alert readers of your MySpace blog that you have a new story and provide links back to your WordPress blog. This serves to drive traffic to your WordPress blog and is the recommended option. This options also allows you to avoid many of the MySpace page formatting issues.

Users that select the whole story option will have the entire story crossposted to their MySpace blog for readers to view without leaving MySpace.

The project is the same. The code is evolved.

What’s New in v2.0a

-Many users had trouble installing the original plugin due to the fact that the installation procedure did not make use of the standard WordPress plugin activation process. To help alleviate the problem, v2.0a is activated via the WordPress Plugins Management screen.

-All setup is now handled within WordPress itself directly from the Options > MySpace Crossposter screen.

-All code has been condensed to one file.

-Nothing needs to be modified to initiate the code after it is activated and configured. When you post, it posts. Simple as that.

Installation Instructions

As with most plugins, simply download the source file, place the plugin into your wp-content > plugins directory, activate the plugin on the Plugins admin panel and configure on the Options panel. That’s it. For more information see WordPress.org’s Managing Plugins page.

Quick and Dirty FAQ

When will the plugin update MySpace?
As soon as your story is published. That is, when you click “Publish” and it goes live on your WordPress blog.

What if I set the post to automatically publish sometime in the future? When will MySpace be updated?
When the story goes live on your WordPress blog.

Will the MySpace Crossposter update MySpace when I edit an already published post?
No. The only time the story will be crossposted in on the first publication.

MySpace didn’t update. Why not?
Of course, there could be a million reasons. Assuming that you configured the plugin properly with all the correct information, the #1 reason that MySpace doesn’t update with this plugin is because MySpace was down/not working/under maintenance/otherwise screwed up at the time that you published.

Will my post still be published on my WordPress blog even if MySpace is down?
Yes.

I published my post but MySpace was down, how can I get the crosspost onto MySpace when it’s back up?
Unfortunately at this time, the only way to do so is to delete the live story from your WordPress blog and to republish it.

I get a white screen with errors on it when I click publish. What’s wrong?
What do the errors say? They are usually pretty descriptive. The #1 problem is an invalid MySpace username and password. Double check all of your settings – typos, wrong info, caps lock, etc…

The system seems to hang/take-forever-to-load when I click publish. Why?
If this happens, it’s likely that your database server is not responding properly. It could be down or timing out connections, or you may have the wrong server information in your settings.

I am trying to post the Whole Blog Entry but nothing is showing up on MySpace.
Does the Notification Style work fine? If so, it’s a problem with the code not responding well to your content (we’re on it – debugging in process). If not, then there’s probably a greater underlying issue – start with confirming your setup information.
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257 thoughts on “MySpace Crossposter v2.0a Released”

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JRS on November 25, 2008 at Nov 25, 08 | 6:31 am said:

Plugin is great! Got it to work just fine. My question is that when I blog from my email, setup through the Flickr for “Extending Flickr”, the post shows up in the WP Blog but does not cross over to MySpace. I have run several tests and it still won’t work.

Any ideas?
Mongoose on December 14, 2008 at Dec 14, 08 | 7:32 am said:

I use Myspace Toolbar Ultimate Edition, it has alot of similar features and supports both firefox and IE6 (http://www.ultimatemyspacetoolbar.com)
BloggerSavvy on December 14, 2008 at Dec 14, 08 | 3:17 pm said:

WP 2.7 gets a white screen when posting or editing a post. The post does go to MySpace no problem, but I do get a white screen every time (with no error messages on the screen).

I’ve deactivated and uninstalled the plugin (for now). Anyone have a fix or update for this plugin?
Thanks muchly!
:)
Dreamie on December 16, 2008 at Dec 16, 08 | 7:39 am said:

I’ve been trying to use this crossposter but have similar problems as above. The “n” mode works fine, however I would really prefer “w” mode to saciate the vast internet laziness. I noticed that if I post a comment in W mode, let’s say, “test”, it posts to myspace. If I post:
“test

test”
It wont post to myspace. This leads me to believe that there’s a problem with the line break inclusions. I noticed you have code deleting the line breaks, and I also noticed that the code created with WP creates a “p” tag instead of a “br”… so I tried duplicating the code on the “$result” line that deletes the br and putting in “p” tags instead (also “/p” and “br /” to be thorough)
It still didn’t work, but thought this idea might help.
This might be around where the “W” posting problem is.
Yemoonyah on December 19, 2008 at Dec 19, 08 | 12:27 am said:

Hi

I have been looking for something like this :-)
But when I install it I can’t activite and get this:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare xpost_it() (previously declared in /home/kabaithr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php:553) in /home/kabaithr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 576

thanks
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Tom on December 21, 2008 at Dec 21, 08 | 6:53 pm said:

Invalid query: Table ‘worddb.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist

Please help me figure out how to fix this. I saw someone else post it and dont see a solution in response.
Bones on December 24, 2008 at Dec 24, 08 | 1:46 pm said:

Will try it on a fresh WordPress 2.7. As Firewallender said, for face book you can import your feeds, i’ll see with crossposter on myspace.
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aicha on December 31, 2008 at Dec 31, 08 | 11:34 am said:

since i upgraded to wp 2.7 i have this message error each time i create a new post :

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111 in /home/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 414
Could not connect:

the post is well posted, but no more crossing with Myspace since…
Remergence on December 31, 2008 at Dec 31, 08 | 4:19 pm said:

Just found this plugin, I’ve been looking for something like this for ages, many thanks for the plugin…
Heather B on January 1, 2009 at Jan 01, 09 | 9:05 pm said:

works great thanks, the only issue i have is that it says i have the wrong username and pw for myspace but it still posted it anyways
punkassjim on January 2, 2009 at Jan 02, 09 | 7:54 pm said:

For the majority of posters who say that they’re getting the “We’re sorry but an error has occurred” message, yet the cross-post is actually working: this is actually easy to fix (or at least put a band-aid on it).

In the PHP plugin file (myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php), you can simply comment out the error reporting, and the if-then statement that follows it. So, comment out lines 228-239, and also line 242. For the un-initiated, “commenting it out” just means you need to put # at the beginning of the line.

Of course, error reporting is a great thing to have, when it works. So yes, this is a band-aid solution. But I haven’t got time to dick around with it more than that. So, I hope this helps some of you.

Also, if you’re getting the mysql_connect() error message, that probably means your database access credentials got hosed from the plugin. Go back into the settings panel for this plugin, and make sure you’ve got the right stuff in there.
TaTonka on January 7, 2009 at Jan 07, 09 | 4:10 pm said:

Do you have a working version for WP 2.7? This version ends up in a whitepage of death.
Brandon on January 8, 2009 at Jan 08, 09 | 12:15 am said:

Yeah, all this does for me is download “myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php”.
Heather B on January 10, 2009 at Jan 10, 09 | 8:56 pm said:

this was working good but my last two post from the last 2 days are not on myspace :( any clues?
amuletts on January 11, 2009 at Jan 11, 09 | 1:50 am said:

I’m getting an error message when I try to post and the post does not go over to myspace. The message is:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/epicfail/public_html/wp-content/plugins/myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php on line 139

What do I need to do to fix it?
David on January 11, 2009 at Jan 11, 09 | 11:21 am said:

Hi there,
This plugin was working great for me too. Although a while ago I found that when I published a post from within WordPress (I’m using 2.7), I was returned a page with nothing but the text “Could not connect”, and predictably, the posts aren’t making it across to Myspace.

Hope this can be overcome!

Thanks for the plugin anyway :)
Diva Shoe Fetish on January 13, 2009 at Jan 13, 09 | 9:34 pm said:

The plug-in was working great for me, I installed the latest update and none of my post have made it to myspace since.

Hope everything gets worked out soon.
Matthew Ebel on January 14, 2009 at Jan 14, 09 | 3:23 pm said:

Yeah, this plugin does not work for me either, and I’m only running WP 2.6. I get a flood of “check your password” errors when I try to post a new entry, but my connection info is all correct.

The only thing I can think is that “localhost” doesn’t work for the local database server field. Other than that, it may just be that MySpace has evolved some new retardation.

Pax,
Matthew
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Jizza on January 15, 2009 at Jan 15, 09 | 1:14 am said:

I am getting the Standard Error Message: “We’re sorry but an error has occured, please check your user name and password. If you are sure this is correct this may be due to myspace, please try again later. if you continue to recieve this error please contact the developers with the following information : your name and email, what function you were attempting to use, page that error occured.” Everything is correct is it the code? I am using the newest download. Let me know!
Duke ironside on January 15, 2009 at Jan 15, 09 | 11:45 am said:

I got the problem, that the plugin doesn’t even appear in my plugins management screen, although it is installed correctly. Any ideas? All my other plugins just work fine.
John on January 15, 2009 at Jan 15, 09 | 6:31 pm said:

im getting the “can not connect” error message.
I have no clue as to what i fill out in the settings area. It would be nice if you could cover that for me.
Diva Shoe Fetish on January 15, 2009 at Jan 15, 09 | 8:36 pm said:

I am getting the same error message as Jizza also, plus none of my post have made it over to myspace since the new upgrade. I have made like 10 new post on my site that haven’t made it to myspace. Please Help??
David on January 17, 2009 at Jan 17, 09 | 7:02 pm said:

For some reason, posting works fine, I get no errors, but the posts never make it over to myspace. I know that the db credentials are good, I know that my myspace credentials are good. I’ve tried setting it to both ‘n’ (notification) and ‘w’ (whole post) modes, but either way get no luck. Since there are no error messages, I have no way of troubleshooting this.
David on January 17, 2009 at Jan 17, 09 | 7:07 pm said:

Hmm, it’s blatantly not even trying to post this. I went back in and screwed up the mysapce credentials intentionally to see if I got an error message. I created a new post, I hit publish…and I got a success message from wordpress. No error, no nothing. I’m guessing this plug-in is never even being invoked.
Liam on February 4, 2009 at Feb 04, 09 | 9:40 pm said:

Hi I downloaded the most recent version of your plugin un zipped it and put it in the plugins folder. It does not appear as an option to activate. Not at all. Am I missing something?

Thanks, L
Nate on February 5, 2009 at Feb 05, 09 | 4:47 am said:

this plugin is exactly what I needed, however I am using the latest version of wordpress and current myspace account and after making a post I don’t see anything change on my page. Is there code that I’m missing or is the code put in place automatically? Please let me know what can be done to fix and if there is an update I need to install!

Thanks!
Nate on February 5, 2009 at Feb 05, 09 | 5:10 am said:

Just from some online searches it appears that this plug-in stopped working around January 6th or 7th. I think myspace changed something and the plug-in needs to be updated. If anyone knows of a bug fix please let me know!
Nebuleux on February 26, 2009 at Feb 26, 09 | 9:57 pm said:

Same issue, seems myspace has blocked the crossposting app. No sql errors no feedback, just no push.
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Chelle on March 12, 2009 at Mar 12, 09 | 1:10 am said:

Adding myself to that list of no nothing anymore.
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fretbuzz on June 2, 2009 at Jun 02, 09 | 7:16 pm said:

I am a new victim of the everything is fine in WP but Nothing posts in MySpace. I even tried changing my myspace password, but the plugin doesn’t act like it is even connecting.
Christopher Joel on June 15, 2009 at Jun 15, 09 | 4:01 pm said:

Hey Roderick,

I really like the idea of your plugin, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work. I’d like to endorse your plugin in my upcoming book, but I won’t endorse something that doesn’t work for me. Could you take a look and get it to work with 2.8?

Thanks,
CJ
ian on June 19, 2009 at Jun 19, 09 | 9:47 am said:

same – no error – no myspace post – can you help?
ian on June 19, 2009 at Jun 19, 09 | 10:01 am said:

Plugin here that does work to post to FB, MySpace & Twitter http://www.gilfether.com/socialite/
Chris Gordon on June 20, 2009 at Jun 20, 09 | 3:22 pm said:

I will hire someone to fix this plugin. Help me pay for it by visiting my site: http://www.browardtherapy.com. It is a pay-per-click site (hint hint).

I posted a project on Scriptlance and will post the fix when I get it.

Chris
MySpace Friend Adder on June 21, 2009 at Jun 21, 09 | 2:16 am said:

Hard to beleive, but true it is LOL…. Thanks Again
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twitter proxy on June 26, 2009 at Jun 26, 09 | 11:52 am said:

Thanks For keeping it on point!

Best Regards
Nino Natividad on July 1, 2009 at Jul 01, 09 | 1:09 pm said:

Wow.. this is really great. Thanks for sharing this great information.

Nino Natividad
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Brinny on July 29, 2009 at Jul 29, 09 | 4:33 am said:

This plugin didn’t end up working for me, and it caused me to get an error message whenever I tried to post / edit and entry: “Invalid query:
> Table ‘[sitename].wp_posts’ doesn’t exist”. The posts would still be posted / edited, but it was worrying.

I’ve since uninstalled and everything’s back to normal.
Maddmix.com - Get In The Mix on March 4, 2010 at Mar 04, 10 | 10:40 pm said:

YES! After some alterations to the original myspacecrossposter_v2_0a.php file
I finally got the MySpace Crossposter plugin to work for WordPress 2.9.1
Check out the cross poster in action at maddmix.com and myspace.com/alphadaviz
Email me if you would like a copy of the code, I would be happy to give it to you!
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