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Syndicate posts to wordpress.com sites

I also have a site on wordpress.com. You know, wordpress.com is blocked in China, so I just used that site as a backup. It works perfectly in my last devastation of data loss. I recovered my lost posts from this backup site.

However, there is a problem. When I post a blog, I have to do it twice. One on nanzt.info and the other on nanzt.wordpress.com. I have to feel lucky I have only two mirror sites. Therefore, I decided to test this plugin, namely Push syndication. The latest version v2.1 is only availale on github.com. (There is a 2.1-wp branch, grab it as a zip file, and upload to your own-hosted website.)

Be aware, this version from the github only works with php 7.1. The reason is the scripts contain a function named mcrypt_*, which has been deprecated in php 7.2+.

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