ActivityPub 1.0.0 released for WordPress - eviltoast

Changelog

Add: blog-wide Account (catchall, like example.com@example.com)

Add: a Follow Me block (help visitors to follow your Profile)

Add: Signature Verification: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

Add: a Followers Block (show off your Followers)

Add: Simple caching

Add: Collection endpoints for Featured Tags and Featured Posts

Add: Better handling of Hashtags in mobile apps

Update: Complete rewrite of the Follower-System based on Custom Post Types

Update: Improved linter (PHPCS)

Compatibility: Add a new conditional, \Activitypub\is_activitypub_request(), to allow third-party plugins to detect ActivityPub requests

Compatibility: Add hooks to allow modifying images returned in ActivityPub requests

Compatibility: Indicate that the plugin is compatible and has been tested with the latest version of WordPress, 6.3

Compatibility: Avoid PHP notice on sites using PHP 8.2

Fixed: Load the plugin later in the WordPress code lifecycle to avoid errors in some requests

Fixed: Updating posts

Fixed: Hashtag now support CamelCase and UTF-8

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    1 year ago

    Well this is pretty great, I hope it gets mass adoption across WordPress sites

    It doesn’t explicitly list Lemmy compatibility, but it should be fine given it works with Mastodon, right?

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    1 year ago

    Cool, I hope this gets mass adopted, so that I can replace my RSS reader with my Mastodon account.

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      1 year ago

      I still prefer RSS and I wish all blogs would have RSS. That being said, of course it’s great if they offer ActivityPub as well and I hope both are used as wide as possible.

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    1 year ago

    Been using this plugin for a while now, and it honestly makes it super simple to get your blog on the fediverse. Really cool, and I recommend it if your site is on WordPress. You basically have to do a tiny bit of set up, then you can pretty much forget them plugin is even there, it just works.

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      1 year ago

      what is the result of being on the fediverse, I just can’t picture the thing. You can be found from mastodon, or is it link to account on different plateformes?

      Like your publication are directly pushed on whatever social network you linked?

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        1 year ago

        Basically, people on other activitypub services like Mastodon can follow your posts on WordPress and they’ll see them in their feed like any other content. You can install another plugin to follow others on the Fediverse from within your WordPress site as well, but I haven’t felt the need for that yet personally.

  • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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    1 year ago

    My only complaint is that each individual blog administrator must learn about this addon and enable it. So subscribing to a given blog in the hopes of having AP support is literally trial and error.

  • Haui@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Looks promising! Will check it out. I‘m a little wary of lemmy integration since I see lemmy as a forum, kind of. Mastodon makes more sence to me for a blog.

    I tried to make a subreddit for a project in the past and it didn’t work at all. It’s just not the best fit for a forum imo except if the project is highly adopted already and discussed. For news and updates, a blog makes more sense.