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JournalPress

A cross-poster supporting Dreamwidth and similar (i.e., LiveJournal-based) sites.

community crossposting dreamwidth post posts
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Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94
won’t connect to dreamwidth

won’t connect to dreamwidth: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
I’ve tried with both my password & with an API key, & no matter what, I keep getting ‘Could not connect to user kellan_the_tabby at http://www.dreamwidth.org !’.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
two tiny patches to eliminate warnings

two tiny patches to eliminate warnings: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
two tiny patches to eliminate warnings Hey, anybody still using this, enjoy two patches, first eliminates a recurring php warning in your logs, the second lets you make your SQL installation be configured more safely without throwing errors.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Can’t add DreamWidth journal

Can’t add DreamWidth journal: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Can’t add DreamWidth journal Cross-posting to LiveJournal works like a dream!
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Disabling “featured image” on crossposts

Disabling “featured image” on crossposts: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Disabling “featured image” on crossposts Okay, so, wanted to drop this in: If you have a WordPress theme that works well with featured images and you want to use them, but you know that Dreamwidth doesn’t do them well, it’s easy to make JournalPress ignore featured images and just never copy them over.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Warning: Undefined array key “allowmask”

Warning: Undefined array key “allowmask”: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Warning: Undefined array key “allowmask” As far as I can tell, the plugin actually works in WP 6.5.5, at least for public crossposts (I just haven’t tried anything else yet), but cron complains about ‘allowmask’ being undefined.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Doesn’t updata psswrd to livejournal doesn’t crosspost

Doesn’t updata psswrd to livejournal doesn’t crosspost: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
This is a known issues and there’s some discussion about it here: https://github.com/alisinfinite/journalpress/issues/6 I confess I haven’t used LJ in over a decade so I’m not sure what the fix is (it doesn’t seem the same as the DW one?).
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Plugin home page

Plugin home page: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Plugin home page Not a support request, but for anyone clicking the link for “Plugin homepage” and finding themselves at a github repository that isn’t there – the new homepage is on codeberg .
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.69
Don’t connect to Livejournal

Don’t connect to Livejournal: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Don’t connect to Livejournal Good Idea, many settings, maybe work at my WP 5.2.3.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69
non-200 error code

non-200 error code: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
non-200 error code When I post a new entry, it takes a long time and then I get an error that says Livejournal received a non-200 error code.
question support · medium severity · relevance 0.63
[Plugin: JournalPress] Shortcodes not parsing.

[Plugin: JournalPress] Shortcodes not parsing.: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
Proof Blocked card complete content publishing operations Evidence linked to opportunity
[Plugin: JournalPress] Shortcodes not parsing. No matter what I try, I can’t convince JournalPress to parse my shortcodes. Why are these being stripped out? How do I stop it? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/journalpress/ No matter what I try, I can’t convince JournalPress to parse my shortcodes. Why are these being stripped out? How do I stop it? http://

Competitor Context

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Ultimate Member – ForumWP forum integration praise owner · intel 89.5 · weakness 92.0
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stale update history below-average rating support missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: support-heavy site owners, agencies, and community operators · Wedge: triage repeated discussion threads, failed replies, knowledge gaps, and escalation workload
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IntenseDebate Comments praise owner · intel 83.2 · weakness 86.2
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating bugs missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
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Ultimate Member – reCAPTCHA weak incumbent · intel 80.1 · weakness 72.3
weak incumbent
stale update history below-average rating security bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor member access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures
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Verified Member for BuddyPress praise owner · intel 75.7 · weakness 66.4
praise owner
stale update history 16 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor member access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures
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Ultimate Member – Online Users praise owner · intel 75.4 · weakness 66.1
praise owner
stale update history 9 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor member access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures
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Ultimate Member – Terms & Conditions praise owner · intel 75.2 · weakness 65.9
praise owner
stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor member access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures
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bbPress Members Only praise owner · intel 74.4 · weakness 67.1
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: support-heavy site owners, agencies, and community operators · Wedge: triage repeated bbpress threads, failed replies, knowledge gaps, and escalation workload
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Collected Signals

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mixed won’t connect to dreamwidth support · 2025-05-04T20:31:35+00:00 · high severity · community

won’t connect to dreamwidth: users show bugs, performance, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve tried with both my password & with an API key, & no matter what, I keep getting ‘Could not connect to user kellan_the_tabby at http://www.dreamwidth.org !’.
bugs performance support setup support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Plugin home page support · 2025-01-14T21:46:32+00:00 · medium severity · community

Plugin home page: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin home page Not a support request, but for anyone clicking the link for “Plugin homepage” and finding themselves at a github repository that isn’t there – the new homepage is on codeberg .
support support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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mixed Warning: Undefined array key “allowmask” support · 2024-06-27T14:43:47+00:00 · medium severity · community

Warning: Undefined array key “allowmask”: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Warning: Undefined array key “allowmask” As far as I can tell, the plugin actually works in WP 6.5.5, at least for public crossposts (I just haven’t tried anything else yet), but cron complains about ‘allowmask’ being undefined.
bugs compatibility reliable support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise Still works in 6.5.5 (5 stars) review · 2024-06-27T14:32:52+00:00 · medium severity · community

Still works in 6.5.5: users show bugs, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Still works in 6.5.5 I don’t know about LJ, but it definitely posts to Dreamwidth, as long as you use an API key, instead of your password.
bugs support setup reliable support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Disabling “featured image” on crossposts support · 2023-02-25T02:33:45+00:00 · medium severity · community

Disabling “featured image” on crossposts: users show compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Disabling “featured image” on crossposts Okay, so, wanted to drop this in: If you have a WordPress theme that works well with featured images and you want to use them, but you know that Dreamwidth doesn’t do them well, it’s easy to make JournalPress ignore featured images and just never copy them over.
compatibility missing feature easy reliable support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Can’t add DreamWidth journal support · 2022-04-25T19:26:30+00:00 · medium severity · community

Can’t add DreamWidth journal: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Can’t add DreamWidth journal Cross-posting to LiveJournal works like a dream!
support setup reliable api support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Doesn’t updata psswrd to livejournal doesn’t crosspost support · 2021-01-14T16:26:39+00:00 · medium severity · community

Doesn’t updata psswrd to livejournal doesn’t crosspost: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This is a known issues and there’s some discussion about it here: https://github.com/alisinfinite/journalpress/issues/6 I confess I haven’t used LJ in over a decade so I’m not sure what the fix is (it doesn’t seem the same as the DW one?).
bugs support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint Don’t connect to Livejournal (1 star) review · 2019-10-05T18:23:51+00:00 · medium severity · community

Don’t connect to Livejournal: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Don’t connect to Livejournal Good Idea, many settings, maybe work at my WP 5.2.3.
missing feature login support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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neutral NNG Gallery Shortcodes support · 2018-03-10T11:20:16+00:00 · medium severity · community

NNG Gallery Shortcodes: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: NNG Gallery Shortcodes Hi! There is a problem when crossposting to Dreamwidth (LJ). Shortcodes in the post related to NNG Gallery images remains shortcodes in dreamwidth. [singlepic id=1176] Hi! There is a problem when crossposting to Dreamwidth (LJ). Shortcodes in the post related to NNG Gallery images remains shortcodes in dreamwidth. [singlepic id=1176]
support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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praise still works in 6.1.1! (5 stars) review · 2016-08-10T05:29:30+00:00 · medium severity · community

still works in 6.1.1!: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: still works in 6.1.1!
bugs compatibility support setup support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint two tiny patches to eliminate warnings support · 2016-08-10T05:25:22+00:00 · medium severity · community

two tiny patches to eliminate warnings: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: two tiny patches to eliminate warnings Hey, anybody still using this, enjoy two patches, first eliminates a recurring php warning in your logs, the second lets you make your SQL installation be configured more safely without throwing errors.
bugs compatibility setup form support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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question [Plugin: JournalPress] Shortcodes not parsing. support · 2012-09-24T03:22:24+00:00 · medium severity · community

[Plugin: JournalPress] Shortcodes not parsing.: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: [Plugin: JournalPress] Shortcodes not parsing. No matter what I try, I can’t convince JournalPress to parse my shortcodes. Why are these being stripped out? How do I stop it? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/journalpress/ No matter what I try, I can’t convince JournalPress to parse my shortcodes. Why are these being stripped out? How do I stop it? http://
support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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complaint non-200 error code support · 2011-07-29T10:56:12+00:00 · medium severity · community

non-200 error code: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: non-200 error code When I post a new entry, it takes a long time and then I get an error that says Livejournal received a non-200 error code.
bugs value support triage and conversation operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source plugin