jubee ([info]euterpeslullaby) wrote in [info]crackified,
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Instructions on how to upload your custom mood theme (for a free account)

Aug 2 2006: THIS TUTORIAL IS NO LONGER NECESSARY
Thanks to LJ's new Plus account type, you no longer need to manually add your mood images to each entry. You can change to a Plus account, install your mood theme, and then either keep the Plus account or go back to Basic. If you choose the latter, your theme will still be on your LJ when you change. Now all instructions are on the paid user tutorial page.

I am going to keep this page up incase LJ ever changes its account types and no longer offers the same features.


INSTRUCTIONS

Alright, due to the large amount of people commenting to tell me that you can use a mood theme with a free account, I've written up a tutorial on how to do so. Frankly, I think it would be a lot easier to just spend the $5 and get a paid account for 2 months, and then the mood theme would still be working when your paid account runs out. That way, if you wanted to change the theme, you'd just have to replace the images you have uploaded with the new ones, as the urls would still be the same.

Anyway, if you don't have the $5, or don't have any way to send it in, here's a tutorial on how to manually add each image to your entries for free accounts (if you have a paid account, go here).




1. Download the zip file for the mood theme you want, and unzip it in winzip or a similar program.

2. Then upload the 132 mood images to your domain, or an image hosting site like Photobucket. Do not change the file names. If the file names are changed, then this will not work.

3. Download this file, and open it.

4. Using the replace tool (Edit > Replace, or ctrl+h in most programs), replace "http://www.hosting.com/" with the url to the folder that stores the images on your domain, or the photobucket album. Make sure you select "replace all", and that it does it for every line. Also, make sure that there is a / between your url and the mood.

5. Now, save the file somewhere that's easily accesible, as you'll need to pull it up every time you make an LJ entry.

6. When you're ready to make an entry, open the file. Before you start typing the entry, figure out what mood you want to use for this entry, and then paste in the corresponding line into the top of your entry. If you want to specify music for this entry, then type that in between the | and ]. If not, delete the second line. Press your enter button a couple times, and then type in your entry. Do not fill in the "mood" or "music" text boxes. If you do, then it will look like you entered them in twice. To see a screencap of what your formatting should look like now, click here.

Your entry should look like this once it's posted:

"[mood| weird]
 [music|The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go]

Blah blah blah"

If not, go through the steps again. If you're still having problems, comment here and I'll try to help.

7. Please make sure to credit me in your info if you do use one of my mood themes.

That's all!

Before you comment with any problems with your mood theme upload, please READ THIS TROUBLESHOOTING POST.
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[info]elizajane86

June 6 2005, 04:45:40 UTC 6 years ago

You mean...I...spent 5 bucks for nothing?!!!

Okay...not for nothing...I did want to get a paid account for another 2 months :D I did it once before and had so much fun with it, I wanted to do it again.

~*Liz*~

[info]mosquetera

June 7 2005, 15:38:30 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

[info]thoushaltkissme

June 9 2005, 05:08:21 UTC 6 years ago

i love you. you probably have no idea who i am, but i absolutely adore you. i was dying because i couldnt use my pretty Friends mood theme set. and now, thanks to you, i can. :-D

[info]cutiebabie2391

February 23 2006, 09:02:49 UTC 6 years ago

I love that icon

[info]thoushaltkissme

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[info]wtf_blurp

June 9 2005, 06:48:19 UTC 6 years ago

w00t!!!! Thanks a heap, you'll be credited in my userinfo:)
<3

[info]kiyda

June 21 2005, 07:02:37 UTC 6 years ago

thank you.

[info]serenity_ii

July 25 2005, 14:24:12 UTC 6 years ago

Wow, where'd that avatar image come from (I mean, is that from Goblet of Fire or what)? That's quite cool.

[info]a_fallingstar_

June 25 2005, 19:19:23 UTC 6 years ago

wow!! thx so much- and the themes are great. will use and credit, but im not sure which one i will take, they are all great

[info]elementsix

June 28 2005, 17:58:46 UTC 6 years ago

Your Wilson theme is perfect! Thanks you so much both for the theme and the tutorial (I'd be lost without it). I'll credit you in my userinfo.

[info]suwillgetu

June 30 2005, 07:29:25 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for posting this! I've been wanting to use a certain mood theme for a while now and I thought I'd have to get a paid account to use it... Thanks again!!!! ^_^

[info]quiet_river

June 30 2005, 14:35:35 UTC 6 years ago

yay! thanks so much for posting this. what a nice trick! :)
it's really a great help for all of those who have free accounts.

[info]isis_azariel

June 30 2005, 18:46:08 UTC 6 years ago

thanks so much =) i will credit! =)

[info]hikaru_daydream

July 1 2005, 21:07:00 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you so much for making this theme! It's so beautiful. As soon as I get it all uploaded and such I'll credit you. :nodnod:

Thanks again! :hugs:

[info]lordstarfish

July 3 2005, 19:31:13 UTC 6 years ago

Hi, I came here from the [info]gimmehellopro community and was trying to do as you said, but when I went to download the rtf file you said to download, Windows said I don't have a program to open it and it didn't list any programs I could download ^^: Is there a program I need to download somewhere or am I doing something wrong?

[info]euterpeslullaby

July 3 2005, 19:42:50 UTC 6 years ago

You probably just don't have Wordpad or Wordperfect, which are the programs that use .rtf. Do you have Microsoft Word? If you do, I can try uploading it as a .doc instead.

[info]lordstarfish

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[info]deb_almighty

July 4 2005, 17:23:53 UTC 6 years ago

Wow! I love Hugh and Bridget so I wil take it thank you so very much

[info]hammerxsword

July 10 2005, 05:24:10 UTC 6 years ago

This is a wonderful tutorial. Will be crediting you for sure for the know-how.

[info]scarlettrose_

July 11 2005, 04:39:04 UTC 6 years ago

i tryed someone elses way to put the mood themes on(i have free account) and then i tryed yours and it still wont work..i dont know why it wont. i followed all the directions on hers and yours. do you think you might be able to help me?

[info]euterpeslullaby

July 11 2005, 04:47:06 UTC 6 years ago

For some reason, you're using the url address "http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/abbie322/friends%20moodset-fandom_moods/thankful.gif/thankful.gif". As you can see, the mood repeats at the end. If you take off the "/thankful.gif", then the image works. I don't know how you managed to repeat the mood.gif portion, but you'll need to take off the /mood.gif off of each part of the code before you use it.

[info]scarlettrose_

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[info]choruslines

July 11 2005, 22:16:48 UTC 6 years ago

THANK YOU

you have no idea how much i love you right now.

<3

[info]steamrollpotter

July 12 2005, 14:09:47 UTC 6 years ago

Thank youuuuuuuuu ♥

[info]______faux

July 13 2005, 05:26:42 UTC 6 years ago

Do I have to individually upload the images or is their a quicker way.
132 is a big number..

[info]nemova

July 22 2005, 20:40:42 UTC 6 years ago

Saving it to memories, thanks a bunch! :D

[info]serenity_ii

July 25 2005, 14:27:18 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks very much for all your work and for making it easy for me to use what you've done!

[info]_illusiveallure

July 30 2005, 21:07:11 UTC 6 years ago

Thats a lot of uploading. Is there a way to upload them all at the same time?

[info]euterpeslullaby

July 30 2005, 21:16:34 UTC 6 years ago

No.

[info]_illusiveallure

6 years ago

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[info]floorshow

July 31 2005, 05:37:22 UTC 6 years ago

whoot i'll have to try this. thanks a lot!

[info]studyingstones

August 3 2005, 21:58:25 UTC 6 years ago

hey. just commenting to let you know i downloaded the Secretary mood theme. i credited you in my user info. thanks a bunch. :)

[info]euterpeslullaby

August 4 2005, 05:28:39 UTC 6 years ago

I've never made a Secretary mood theme. Did you mean this one by [info]xagentstarling?

[info]studyingstones

6 years ago

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[info]zayden

August 4 2005, 05:20:02 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you very much! It wasn't so bad if you use find and replace in Word.

[info]theblindwillsee

August 6 2005, 18:34:25 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you very, very, very much! I'm using the Princess Bride theme.
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