Today I’m
going to speak about a functionality of Profy that some of our users may not be
aware of since it is not really accentuated via your dashboard – the
crossposting. This functionality is useful for those bloggers that already have
a blog (or blogs) on Google’s Blogger.com
or Livejournal and do not want to
abandon those blogs only because they like Profy interface better.
The functionality
has already found a few fans and an example of successful implementation has
been given by Louis Gray on his
Blogger-powered blog. For many heavy bloggers this feature is very
appealing because it allows them to update their multiple blogs simultaneously
from the Profy platform – once all the blogs you want to update with the posts
written on Profy are linked to your Profy account, all the published posts are
sent to all those blogs you chose to crosspost to.
In this
post I am going to provide you a step-by-step guide on how to configure
crossposting from Profy to other accounts. And since we fully realize that this
is a pretty simplistic implementation of crossposting, I would like to invite
everyone to participate in a small poll in the end of the post so that we
realized what is needed the most by our users or leave your comments to the
post with your suggestions.
So, where
do you start once you decide to use crossposting from Profy to other blogging
platforms?
First, you
will need to go to the ‘Blog’ section of the platform and choose the tab
‘Settings’. In this tab you will find a pane called ‘Crossposting’:
To start
adding new blogs for crossposting, simply click the ‘Link to a new blog’
button:
This will
open a dialogue where you will have to choose the platform that you want to
send your posts to. Currently Profy only supports crossposting to Blogger.com
and LiveJournal but we will be adding more platforms in the future.
I will show
here the process of linking a Google’s Blogger blog to my Profy account below.
To start, you will need to choose Blogger from the list of platforms and this
will take you to the next step:
In this
step you will need to choose a title for your blog (this title does not affect
your Blogger blog – it is only intended for you to easily recognize the linked
blogs) and choose if you want Profy to crosspost to this linked blog by
checking in the “Enable crossposting to this blog” field. Remember, before you
are able to crosspost anything anywhere, you will need to authorize Profy to do
so by proving that these blogs are actually owned by you.
To
authorize your Profy account for crossposting, you will need to click the word
“here” in the “Click here to authorize your account”:
Don’t
forget that you will need to authorize Profy to Google in order to be able to
send your posts from Profy to Blogger (sorry it is in Russian, Google constantly refuses to apply my setting of English as my language to all their sites).
Once you authorize Profy, you will be
able to choose the blogs from your Google blogs that you want to crosspost from
Profy by checking their respective check boxes:
Once you
are done selecting the blogs you want to update from Profy, click Ok to
complete the process.
Now that
you have completed linking the blog (or blogs) from one of the blogging
platforms, you will have those linked blogs listed in the ‘Crossposting’ pane
of the ‘Settings’ tab:
For any
blog from the list you will always be able to disable crossposting if you want
to suspend publication of posts created by you on Profy or enable crossposting
again for disabled blogs. Or you can also delete the blogs you do not intend to
use in conjunction with Profy any more.
You are now
done, once everything is set up and crossposting is enabled, you will see your
new posts appear both on your other linked blogs as well.
And now the
small poll that I’ve mentioned in the beginning of this post. Your answers will
really help us understand where exactly we should take crossposting from here
on:
