An comprehensive list of the links found on the site, useful communities and journals and your own journal/scrapbook links.
Some of them may appear in several categories.
Note: When you write these links in your code you can replace http://www.livejournal.com by $*SITEROOT.
Don't hesitate to point out any mistake or broken link or indicate links which are not mentioned.
Key/Legend:
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Can add argument for different journal. | |
![]() | Available to Paid Accounts only. |
![]() | Can authas a community. Or for Community Accounts only. |
![]() | Enhanced for Paid Accounts. |
Available to or enhanced for Plus Accounts. | |
Available to Permanent Accounts only. Or given to Permanent Accounts without charge. |
Table of Contents
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- >> Getting Started
- >> Your Universe
- >> Services
- >> Having some Trouble?
- >> Manage/Settings
- >> Stay Informed: LJ News
- >> Looking for Something?
- >> Customization
- >> $$$: The Gift Shop
- >> Suggestions/Feedback
- >> Wanna Help?
- >> Advertising/Promotion
- >> Behind the Scenes: Staff and Contributors
- >> Administration Area
- >> Statistics
- >> Know the Law: Legal Documents/Official Guidelines
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>> Getting Started
- The Newbies Loungehttp://community.livejournal.com/newbies/
- Did You Know?http://www.livejournal.com/didyouknow/
- Interface Options
- Site's layout and languagehttp://www.livejournal.com/manage/siteopts.bml
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Create a Journal
- Create a personal journalhttps://www.livejournal.com/create.bml
- Create a communityhttp://www.livejournal.com/community/create.bml
- List of Purged Usernames (available for use with a rename token)http://www.livejournal.com/misc/2005_05_expunged_list.bml
- Buy a Paid Account, Pricing Details, List of additional features of Paid Accountshttp://www.livejournal.com/paidaccounts/
- Feature by account type (basic vs. paid vs. plus)http://www.livejournal.com/site/accounts.bml
- Turn a personal journal into a communityhttp://www.livejournal.com/community/settings.bml?mode=create
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Portal/My LJ
- LiveJournal Homepagehttp://www.livejournal.com/
- Log inhttp://www.livejournal.com/login.bml
- Log outhttp://www.livejournal.com/logout.bml
- Portal/My LJ (Post, Friends' birthdays, Memories, Frank the Goat, Popular FAQs, etc.)http://www.livejournal.com/portal/
http://my.livejournal.com/ - Scrapbook Homepagehttp://pics.livejournal.com/
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Post in Your Journal
- Posthttp://www.livejournal.com/update.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?usejournal=communityname - Post (rich text mode)
- Post with another username while already logged inhttp://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?altlogin=1
http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?altlogin=1&usejournal=communityname - Edit your entries (multi-editing possible)http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml?usejournal=communityname - Download client software (post, edit, manage your friends list, etc.)http://www.livejournal.com/download/
- Poll creatorhttp://www.livejournal.com/poll/create.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/poll/create.bml?authas=communityname
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Upload to Your ScrapBook
- Upload pictures: multi-upload possibility, create a gallery, set security settings,etc.http://pics.livejournal.com/manage/upload
- Download uploading clientshttp://pics.livejournal.com/site/clients
- Frequently Asked Questions
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Posting
- How do I post and entry to my journal?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=222&view=full
- How can I format my text?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=72&view=full
- How do I hide part of my entry behind a link? What is anhttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75&view=full
<lj-cut>
? - How do I enable or disablehttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75&view=full&q=set%20opt_ljcut_disable_
<lj-cut>
s on my journal? - How do I add a link to another entry or website?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=67&view=full
- How do I insert images?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=6&view=full
- Which HTML tags are allowed on LJ and where?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=72&view=full
- What are the limitations on data?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=148&view=full
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Security
- Who can read my entries? What are the different security settings?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=24&view=full
- How do I set the minimum security level for my journal?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=120&view=full&q=newpost_minsecurity
- How do I set the minimum security level for my community?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=234&view=full&q=newpost_minsecurity
- Who can comment on my journal? Comment security settings.http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=23&view=full
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=24&view=full - Banning and unbanning users. What does that mean and how do I do it?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=20&view=full
- Banning and unbanning in communities. What does that mean and how do I do it?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=84&view=full
- Someone has broken into my account. What should I do?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=117&view=full
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Communities
- Watching and joining a community: What's the difference?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=179&view=full
- Moderators and Maintainers: Who does what?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=225&view=full
- Moderated communities: What does that mean?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=157&view=full
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Memories
- Adding, Editing, Deleting Memorieshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=47&view=full
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Userpics
- What are userpics? How do I upload them?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=1&view=full
- What are userpic keywords? How do I use them?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=95&view=full
- What are userpic comments? How do I credit an icon maker?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=206&view=full
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Tags
- What are tags? How do I use them?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=226&view=full
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Navigation Strip
- What is the Navigation Strip? How do I modify its settings?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=264&view=full
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Renaming
- How do I change my username?http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=25&view=full
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Posting
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>> Your Universe
N.B. 1 All of these links can of course be used to link to another person's pages.
N.B. 2 You can view another person's journal in your style by adding ?style=mine to each of their pages' URLs (homepage, friends page, calendar page, tags page). It will also works for communities but not for syndicated feeds.-
Your Journal
- Your LiveJournal Homepage (all types of accounts, except for below exceptions): Recent entries and access to sub-pageshttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/
http://users.livejournal.com/exampleusername/ - Your LiveJournal Homepage (communities only)http://community.livejournal.com/communityname/
- Your LiveJournal Homepage (syndicated only)http://syndicated.livejournal.com/new_rss_feed/
- Your LiveJournal Homepage (user accounts that start with an underscore, end with an underscore, or have two or more underscores next to each other)http://users.livejournal.com/exampleusername/
- Information page: name, location, birth date, contact information, biography, interests list, friends list, membership listhttp://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml
http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/profile
http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/info
- Full mode for the information page: adds statistics and posting access listhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/profile?mode=full
- Friends page, unfilteredhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends
- Friends page, filtered with a custom grouphttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/groupname
- Friends page, personal journals onlyhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/?show=P
- Friends page, communities onlyhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/?show=C
- Friends page, syndicated feeds onlyhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/?show=Y
- Friends page, news journals onlyhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/?show=N
- Friends page, shared journals onlyhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/?show=S
Note 1: you can combine all these letters. For example ?show=PY will only show personal and syndicated journals.
Note 2: you can apply ?show=letter to any friends group. For example http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friends/groupname?show=C will only show community journals within this particular friends group. - Friends' Friends Pagehttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/friendsfriends
- Calendar page; access to month and day viewshttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/calendar
- Tags pagehttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/tag/
- Tag-filtered recent pagehttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/tag/tagname
- Icons pagehttp://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=exampleusername - Your Memorieshttp://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=exampleusername - Your RSS Feedhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/data/rss
- Your RSS Feed with Authenticationhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/data/rss?auth=digest
- Your Atom Feedhttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/data/atom
- Your FOAF Datahttp://exampleusername.livejournal.com/data/foaf
- Your Friend-Datahttp://www.livejournal.com/misc/fdata.bml?user=exampleusername
- Your Interest-Datahttp://www.livejournal.com/misc/interestdata.bml?user=exampleusername
http://www.livejournal.com/misc/interestdata.bml?user=communityname&comm=1 - Your recent comments (received in your LJ and those you posted)http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml?authas=communityname - Your friends' birthdayshttp://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml?user=exampleusername - Your todo listhttp://www.livejournal.com/todo/
http://www.livejournal.com/todo/?user=exampleusername
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Your Scrapbook
- Your Scrapbook Homepagehttp://pics.livejournal.com/exampleusername/
- Your Scrapbook Homepage (top-level galleries)http://pics.livejournal.com/exampleusername/?sort=top
- Your Scrapbook Homepage (sorted by recently updated galleries)http://pics.livejournal.com/exampleusername/?sort=recent
- Your Scrapbook Homepage (alphabetical order)http://pics.livejournal.com/exampleusername/?sort=alpha
- Your Scrapbook Homepage (date order)http://pics.livejournal.com/exampleusername/?sort=date
- ScrapBook Pictures filtered by tag (in this case, "http://pics.livejournal.com/exampleusername/tags/tagname/
tagname
") - Your Scrapbook Tag Cloudhttp://pics.livejournal.com/tools/tagcloud
http://pics.livejournal.com/tools/tagcloud?user=exampleusername
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Your Journal
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>>Services
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Backup, Embedding and Domain Aliasing
- Backup your journal in CSV or XML formathttp://www.livejournal.com/export.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml?authas=communityname
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=8&view=full - Embed your journal in your own websitehttp://www.livejournal.com/developer/embedding.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/developer/embedding.bml?method=all
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=68&view=full - Domain Aliasing (aka Domain Forwarding)http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml?authas=communityname
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=129&view=full
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LJ Talk
- LJ Talk Indexhttp://www.livejournal.com/ljtalk/
- LJ Talk Introductory Posthttp://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/716451.html
- LJ Talk s2s Updatehttp://community.livejournal.com/lj_dev/717808.html
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Text Messaging
- Enable text messaginghttp://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/
http://www.livejournal.com/manage/profile/?authas=communityname - Send a text messagehttp://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?user=exampleusername
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=details
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Backup, Embedding and Domain Aliasing
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>> Having some Trouble?
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Technical Problems
- SixApart Status Report (check this site when any SixApart site is down)http://status.sixapart.com/
- LiveJournal Status Report (check this page when the LiveJournal site is down)http://status.livejournal.org/
- Status Journalhttp://status.livejournal.com/
- LiveJournal Known Issueshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/known_issues.bml
- Your cluster and subcluster (useful for maintenance alerts)http://www.livejournal.com/misc/whereami.bml
http://www.livejournal.com/misc/whereami.bml?authas=communityname - LJ maintenance journalhttp://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/
- Support board: read current bugs reportshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/help.bml
- LJ Text Message: Maintenancehttp://community.livejournal.com/lj_textmessage/
- Bugzilla for LJ.org: read listed bug reports (now defunct)http://zilla.livejournal.org/
- Request Tracker Community: read listed bug reportshttp://community.livejournal.com/rt_bugs/
- Request Tracker for LJ.org: read listed bug reportshttp://rt.livejournal.org/
Log in by first logging in to LiveJournal. Then provide your LiveJournal URL (http://exampleusername.livejournal.com/
) at the RT login page.
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Help/Support
- Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faq.bml
- Search the FAQshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqsearch.bml
- 'How to' journal: tutorials and lessonshttp://community.livejournal.com/howto/
- Site maphttp://www.livejournal.com/site/
- Navigation Strip Flash Demohttp://www.livejournal.com/didyouknow/navigationstrip.bml
- Lost your password or your username? (a validated e-mail address is required)http://www.livejournal.com/lostinfo.bml
- Age verificationhttp://www.livejournal.com/agecheck/
- Support Homepage (Known Issues, Guidelines, FAQs, Access to the support board and the request form)http://www.livejournal.com/support/
- Support board: read support requests, report bugshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/help.bml
- Submit a support requesthttp://www.livejournal.com/support/submit.bml
- Prohibited Material on LiveJournalhttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=107&view=full
- Standards of Indecency on LiveJournalhttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=112&view=full
- Guidelines for Adult-Oriented Communitieshttp://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=196&view=full
- LJ Text Message: Supporthttp://community.livejournal.com/lj_textmessage/
- Report violations of the Terms of Servicehttp://www.livejournal.com/abuse/report.bml
- Abuse Policies and Procedures (may be outdated)http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/policy.bml
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Technical Problems
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>> Getting Started
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