I did it, I created my first WordPress plugin! I am one happy mofo! It was very easy relative to how difficult I thought it was going to be. I only started writing my plugin two days ago!

My plugin is much like the LiveJournal crossposter I use in that the output is the same. My original plan was to use the same code from the LJ crossposter plugin but could not.

Six Apart is the company that owns both LiveJournal and Vox. Vox is relatively new, still in beta stage and isn’t even listed on the Six Apart Products list (look here). Since Vox is so new, there is not an API available, that I can find anyway. I have looked for it on the Six Apart developers page. I got an invite to Vox and have yet to do anything with it (other than create a profile) since I don’t know anybody that does uses Vox.

Now for the part where I shut up and just offer up the link to the Vox Crossposter plugin. To install my plugin, just download the zip file and unzip it. Upload the vox-crosspost.php file to the plugins folder (generally located at http://yourhost.tld/wp-content/plugins/).

Please note the limitations to my plugin: It will not edit a post on Vox if you edit it on WordPress. I cannot do this with my plugin until an API is created and released by Six Apart (see paragraph 3).

If you have any problems with my plugin, leave a comment.

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