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   FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:33:45 JST FediTips has moved!

   • Matthias Pfefferle

   If you have a WordPress-powered blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server and people will be able to follow the blog from Mastodon etc.

   More info on how to do this here:

   ➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

   This works through the AcitvityPub for WordPress plug-in, which has just been updated to version 1.0:

   ➡️ https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

   The plug-in is by @pfefferle in association with #Automattic, one of the major players behind WordPress itself.

   #WordPress #Fediverse #FediTips #ActivityPub

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:38:13 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Aurin Azadî

     @atarifrosch @feditips in version 1.0.0 the plugin makes some extensions to the Block-Editor, so this might be what breaks ClassicPress.

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     Aurin Azadî (atarifrosch@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:38:14 JST Aurin Azadî

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle Unfortunately it breaks #ClassicPress. Had to delete the plugin. Blog was only showing blank pages after upgrading to 1.0.0 (and it didn't work beforehand, too).

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:46:10 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • 73 million seconds

     @73ms @feditips the new version brings some nice blocks, to add a "follow" dialogue to your side and/or show your followers!

     See: https://notiz.blog/follow/##Fediverse or https://notiz.blog/followers/

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     73 million seconds (73ms@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:46:12 JST 73 million seconds

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle it is a good effort but I checked a few installations running this and it seems to be completely invisible on all I saw, you just have to somehow be able to know you can search for the account of a user on the fediverse... I guess it would be quite useful to have some kind of visible UI elements that get enabled with it as well.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:53:44 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • 时变局正宗青柠派🍋🥧 :verified:

     @jiangshanghan

     I've tried to cover this in the guide linked in the original post.

     Short answer is: wordpress.com free accounts don't have plugin support, so there's no way to use plugins with them.

     Wordpress.com paid accounts are really expensive compared to WordPress on indie hosts.

     If you read the link in the original post there is a lot more info on this.

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     时变局正宗青柠派🍋🥧 :verified: (jiangshanghan@slashine.onl)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:53:51 JST 时变局正宗青柠派🍋🥧 :verified:

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     @feditips may i ask,is there any way for people follow wordpress.com blogs by mastodon accounts?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:06:19 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • 73 million seconds

     @73ms @pfefferle

     "you just have to somehow be able to know you can search for the account of a user"

     Um... I am probably missing the point, but isn't that true for all social media accounts?

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:13:20 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Michael Martinez :verified:

     @michael_martinez @73ms @feditips can you send me an example post and explain to me what you do not like or what you expect? Maybe I can help you with some tweakings.

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     Michael Martinez :verified: (michael_martinez@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:13:25 JST Michael Martinez :verified:

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • 73 million seconds

     @73ms @feditips @pfefferle There are ways to promote Mastodon/fediverse accounts on any WordPress blog (even free WordPress.Com accounts) via widgets in sidebars and footers.

     I'm experimenting with ActivityPub + Friends plugins on several blogs but because the Featured Images don't display properly for me when I view them from this account, I'm not sure I want to promote those blogs directly.

     I'm still manually sharing content when it's published to ensure I can see my Featured Images. But I'm probably just being prissy at this point.

     The Friends plugin is still a little iffy but it's recently been enhanced and I need to scale up my experimentation to learn more about what to expect.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:29:39 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • 73 million seconds

     @73ms @pfefferle

     You could add a Fediverse icon and account address to the header/footer of your blog?

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     73 million seconds (73ms@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:29:40 JST 73 million seconds

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips well, I think discoverability is important and one way to make it happen is that a plugin like this offers ways to show visitors they can interact via ActivityPub. Seems like the latest version does already have that part covered per what @pfefferle said.

     An even better way might be to have this in the browser in a similar way to how you used to see the RSS icon on the browser address bar at least in Firefox back when RSS was in vogue and how the Streetpass extension does it (https://streetpass.social/) but I doubt we are going to see a (or maybe rather the) major browser support this as a built-in feature anytime soon.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:53:23 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Michael Martinez :verified:

     @michael_martinez do you use Jetpack?

     /cc @jeremy

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     Michael Martinez :verified: (michael_martinez@c.im)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 22:53:24 JST Michael Martinez :verified:

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @pfefferle

     This is a recent post and the screen capture below is what I see. I don't use a Mastodon client. I only access it from the C.im Website, if that matters.

     I also don't use the Gutenberg editor in WordPress. I use the Classic Editor (in case that matters).

     And this post was published on a multisite network (using subdomains).

     The "Not Available" is where the Featured Image should be.

     https://c.im/@michael@middle-earth.xenite.org/111063510798864523

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 23:16:44 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Adrian Morales
     • Matt Wiebe

     @adrianmorales @feditips for now, but we ( @mattwiebe and myself ) are about to release it on WordPress.com in the next few days/weeks. So every user will be able to use it, regardless of their tariffs.

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     Adrian Morales (adrianmorales@ieji.de)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 23:16:45 JST Adrian Morales

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle "No, this does not work with free blogs from wordpress.com, because they do not allow installation of plug-ins. You will need an independently hosted WordPress-powered blog that allows plug-ins."

     Important to know.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 23:59:20 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Adrian Morales
     • Matt Wiebe

     @pfefferle @adrianmorales @mattwiebe

     Woooo! Great news! 👏 Keep the rest of us updated, think a lot of people will be interested!

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 23:59:52 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Adrian Morales
     • Matt Wiebe

     @feditips @adrianmorales @mattwiebe you can be sure that we will do ☺️

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:00:41 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Adrian Morales
     • Matt Wiebe

     @pfefferle @adrianmorales @mattwiebe

     Thank you for all your work, you've put so much into this! 🙏

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:18:25 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • MA Caiti

     @MarioMakesStuff @pfefferle

     Unfortunately Blogger isn't an open platform. There's no way to host your own Blogger, it's effectively just part of Google.

     WordPress is free open software so anyone can host it.

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     MA Caiti (mariomakesstuff@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:18:26 JST MA Caiti

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle Cool! Now do Blogger. :D

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:20:03 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Melroy van den Berg

     @melroy @feditips also fine 🙂

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     Melroy van den Berg (melroy@mastodon.melroy.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:20:07 JST Melroy van den Berg

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle I'm actually so happy I moved away from WordPress and only use static site generator for my blog and homepage.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:22:30 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • MA Caiti

     @MarioMakesStuff that would be also nice! But as @feditips said, this has to be done by google because it is a closed platform!

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     Northants Greens (northantsgreens@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:31:09 JST Northants Greens

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle this is something we will plan on doing once the website is running wordpress.

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:43:50 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
     • Adrian Morales
     • Matt Wiebe

     @nizarus @pfefferle @adrianmorales @mattwiebe

     I will do another post all about it when it happens!

     ActivityPub on free wordpress is something that has been very, very requested.

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     Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني (nizarus@mastodon.tn)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:43:56 JST Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Adrian Morales
     • Matt Wiebe

     @feditips You have to update "Can I use this with my free blog on wordpress.com?" section, to say that it will be possible soon 😉
     @pfefferle @adrianmorales @mattwiebe

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:53:45 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Michelle Hughes

     @MegaMichelle @feditips comments will show up in WordPress but nothing more atm. but comments/replys/reactions will be a focus topic of one of the next versions!

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     Michelle Hughes (megamichelle@a2mi.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 00:53:57 JST Michelle Hughes

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle

     When people reply to your posts, does it show up as a comment in wordpress?

     Does anything happen in wordpress when they favorite or boost?

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     Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi: (niall@mastodon.nz)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 06:54:31 JST Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle Awesome concept!
     You're helping us towards a place where we control our own information but it's still wonderfully 'socially connected'. I've been ranting to all who don't immediately walk away that this is how social media should be.
     Thank you.

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     Dr.Implausible (drimplausible@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 23:47:07 JST Dr.Implausible

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle Installed it and gave it a shot last night, and while I can see the poster ID from the blog here on Mastodon (ie: @Dr.Implausible ), I'm not seeing either of the two posts I made there on here.

     The link under the user profile will take me back to a filtered view of the blog.

     Hmmm. Might be a me problem, granted. But very close.

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     • Dr.Implausible

     @drimplausible @pfefferle @Dr.Implausible

     Did you do the blog posts before or after you followed the account?

     If no one from your server has followed an account, your server won't notice its posts. If at least one person on your server follows an account, your server will notice posts made after the following happened, but not posts made before that.

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     Dr.Implausible (drimplausible@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:03:53 JST Dr.Implausible

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle @Dr.Implausible Thank you. Thought I had it correct last night, but it appears to be coming through in the feed now.

     Tagging on the blog appears to port over directly into #mastodon

     I set it for the limited version, not full text, as I can ramble.

     A couple tweaks still needed, but it appears to be successful!

     Direct posting from #wordpress to the #fediverse

     #POSSE via Wordpress is possible!

     Awesome! Thank you!

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:04:29 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Dr.Implausible

     @drimplausible @pfefferle @Dr.Implausible

     Brilliant! 🥳

     Congratulations 👏

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     Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋 (o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 06:40:27 JST Olivier Simard-Casanova 🦋

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @pfefferle Stellar work!

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     • Anna-Maria Eriksson

     @annamariaeriksson

     Hmm, I'm not sure how to help, think this is definitely a question for @pfefferle !

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     Anna-Maria Eriksson (annamariaeriksson@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:08:37 JST Anna-Maria Eriksson

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle how do you get this to work when you have a multisite subfolder install?

     My user profile works, and so does the enabled blogs who are on a standalone top domain. I have 3 or 4 blogs in a subfolder, and I can't see them on mastodon. Help please!

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:11:21 JST FediTips has moved!

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Anna-Maria Eriksson

     @annamariaeriksson @pfefferle

     Was also going to suggest the support forum at:

     https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/activitypub/

     ...but I see you've already posted there! 😁

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     Anna-Maria Eriksson (annamariaeriksson@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:11:23 JST Anna-Maria Eriksson

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @feditips @pfefferle Thank you. I am desperate! 😂