Cross-posting is a unique system developed by Blip to make videoblogging easier than ever before. In a nutshell, cross-posting allows you to automatically mirror your post on Blip to your own blog, to group blogs or to special Web sites like del.icio.us and Flickr.
At Blip we support hosted blogging services like Blogger, WordPress.com and Typepad. We also support installed software including Movable Type and Wordpress.
In general we support any system that makes use of the Metaweblog, Blogger, MovableType or Atom APIs. In addition to blogging systems, Blip can cross-post to del.icio.us and Flickr. We also mirror videos to the Internet Archive.
Setting up Blip cross-posting is easy. If you want to cross-post to a blog just visit our easy blog addition wizard. You can set up Flickr cross-posting with your Flickr preferences and del.icio.us cross-posting with your del.icio.us preferences. Setting up Internet Archive cross-uploading is easy with your Internet Archive preferences.
When you edit a blog cross-post destination (you can do this from your blog list) you have the option of selecting a playback style. A playback style is a preferred way of presenting your video on your blog or Web page.
By default Blip uses the "flipper" style, which places a regular image thumbnail in your blog post. When clicked the thumbnail automatically turns into a video player. Other options include the "inline" style, which places a video player directly in your blog, and a "popup" style which opens a new window with your video in it when clicked. You also have the option of choosing the "linked" style, which simply links the viewer to a copy of your video in a blank browser window.
When you change your blog's playback style your change will apply to all future posts, but posts that have already been made will retain the old style unless you cross-post them again.
Yes, you can edit a post that has already been cross-posted. If you edit the post on Blip and check the cross-posting box again it will be updated on your blog within two to five minutes. The only exceptions are cross-posts to Flickr, which cannot be edited, and cross-posts that have been deleted from your remote blog.
At Blip we process cross-posts every few minutes. This means that there could be a delay of up to ten minutes before your post will be copied from Blip to your remote blog. It usually doesn't take that long, though — most cross-posts process within a minute or two.
You can check on cross-posting status at any time by visiting your Dashboard. The status of each cross-post will be listed alongside each of your recent episodes.
Every cross-post will show a status of "Requested," "Pending," "Completed" or "error." If your cross-post is showing "Requested" it should be processed shortly. Pending cross-posts are being processed as you watch, and a "Completed" cross-post has been placed on your remote blog and should be available.
If a cross-post is showing an "Error" status it should have a message next to it giving some indication of the problem that was encountered. Sometimes cross-posts show up as having encountered an error even if they worked. Please check your blog to see if this is the case. If not, contact support@blip.com for assistance.
A transient error is usually a temporary one. Sometimes blogging systems have temporary problems. When we see a problem that looks like it's temporary we mark the post as having a "transient error" and try again a few minutes later.
Once the post goes through (as most posts marked as having a "transient error" do) the post will still show an error message but the status will show as "Completed." This is normal.
When you set up your NucleusCMS blog with Blip you should tell Blip that you're using Movable Type. When it asks you for an administration location, put in the location of your XML/RPC endpoint, and when it asks you for your API endpoint put your XML/RPC endpoint in again.
Even though NucleusCMS supports the Blogger API, its support is incompatible with 's Blogger API support. The Movable Type API will work fine, though.
Most likely your blogging system is just taking a moment to reflect the new post. This can take up to five or ten minutes with some systems. Give it a few minutes. If your post still isn't showing up, login to your blogging system and check to see if maybe your post has arrived but is marked as a draft. This happens from time time, particularly with systems like Blogger.
If your post still isn't showing up, your best bet is to contact support@blip.com and we'll check your issue out as soon as possible.
MovableType installations after version 3.2 use a separate password for third-party software like Blip. Six Apart offers a FAQ entry on this subject that will walk you through setting up an API password.
In order to post a video (any video) to a WordPress blog you must be the admin user or use an account that has permission to post all HTML. Otherwise WordPress will filter out the video embed code for security reasons. Make sure that when you copy & paste a video into WordPress that you do so as a user with the proper permission, and also make sure that when you're setting up cross-posting that you do it with an account with proper permissions.
