Automatically post daily links

Filed under: Tips & Tricks by Miraz on June 28, 2006     Print This Post

Kevin Lim has a guide for How to automatically post daily links from Del.icio.us to WordPress:

I compile all my links using del.icio.us and through some dark magic, have my links automatically posted on my blog every night at 10.30pm.

1. Have you tried this, Miraz? I set it up yesterday (at least I thought I did) and nothing appeared on my site today. I’ll give it another 24 hours, then try troubleshooting more extensively than just checking my setup options.

   Am curious to know if you or anyone else who has read this has had success with it.

   Comment by Maria — June 30, 2006 @ 7:37 am

2. Well, it worked after all. It just did it about 8 hours after I expected it to. It’s probably because I screwed up the clock setting. I’ll check on it later.

   Also, it didn’t use the Post Title I’d entered. Instead, it used “links for 2006-06-30″. I can live with that. But the problem might be my inclusion of an apostrophe in that field of the form. Will check on that, too.

   Thanks for sharing this, Miraz. I guess I’ll be using del.icio.us more often now.

   Comment by Maria — June 30, 2006 @ 11:54 am

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