Julianna Yau’s blog

For several months, I have been looking for something (anything) which can post a digest of my Ma.gnolia bookmarks to this blog.

My first attempt was with Feedburner’s link splicer, which does that…but only integrates the content into the blog’s feed. Although that’s useful, it isn’t the functionality I want.

Then I tried Ma.gnolia’s own blog posting tool. Although it worked wonderfully, I stopped using it when my host upgraded to ModSecurity 2. This was a problem because modsecurity needs to be deactivated for the xmlrpc file so that Wordpress will accept remote posting, but ModSecurity 2 can only be disabled by the host and for my entire site. This posed a security risk I wasn’t willing to take just to get digest posting of my bookmarks.

I was manually creating digests for a while, but that couldn’t be a permanent solution.

And then I searched through the WordPress plugins again and found that Postalicious had been updated to handle not merely De.licio.us bookmarks, but others…including Ma.gnolia!

At this time, it looks like Postalicious only supports one account from De.licio.us, Ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit or Yahoo Pipes.

You can select:

• the WordPress user acount to attribute the post
• the categories for the post
• whether pingbacks are allowed
• whether comments are allowed
• the minimum number of links a post can have
• the frequency of posting (no limit, max of x bookmarks per post, minimum of x hours between posts, or post once every x days after hh:mm)
• whether to publish after the criteria are met, or keep in drafts
• whether to edit an existing post or start a new one if the author publishes the draft
• allow/disallow a custom list of html in bookmark descriptions
• post only or no bookmarks with a custom list of tags (no spaces, comma separated)
• whether to use bookmark tags as the tags for the post
• whether to always use the same custom list of tags for the post
• date format, based on PHP standards
• post slug template
• post title for single or multiple days
• bookmark syntax (e.g. bookmark link - description - custom text)
• tag syntax
• customizable post template for single or multiple days

Overall, I would say the available options have been very thoroughly considered, and the plugin works wonderfully.

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