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   Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:10:07 JST Colin Devroe

   • Matthias Pfefferle

   @pfefferle I have a question re: the ActivityPub plugin dev workflow. Do you commit minified files to the repository? If so, why?

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:10:06 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     @cdevroe there are some reasons:

     1. I have not yet had the time to update the GitHub runner, that releases the code on WordPress.org
     2. It is possible to install the script through composer, so it should include all code that is needed to run it without an extra build
     3. It is easier to run/test the latest version if you do not have to run npm stuff

     😊

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:15:31 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Colin Devroe

     @pfefferle These were my guesses as to the reasons! Thank you for letting me know. When I looked at the diff to see how you implemented the fix, I was surprised is all. TY! And TY for taking care of that very simple improvement so quickly!

     Btw, I _think_ I fixed my site by turning off my author profile, enabling the blog profile at @colin , and turning ON the @stupid profile. I'm still learning. I just didn't want my username to be cdevroe.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:17:30 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     @cdevroe 😳

     you turned authors OFF and one author ON? How is that possible?

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:22:22 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @pfefferle Sorry. First, I only had blog profile. Then, I wanted additional accounts - so I turned author profiles on. However, that gets weird because my main author is me but the username is cdevroe. And I didn't want that. So I disabled ActivityPub on my main author and created an additional author.

     I'm still unsure if this is a good idea. Because then posts get split between authors (which makes sense). But it may not make sense for a single person website? Again, I'm still learning!

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:30:49 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     @cdevroe ah, I see!

     this has some history... I originally started with only author profiles, but the most requested feature was the single user mode (blog-profile). So we added that afterwards and I thought it might be a nice idea to have them also combined.

     I plan to simplify the settings a bit and to add some more explanation. I also think about a way to change usernames, but for this we need ActivityPub IDs that do not include the username.

     See: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/894

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:31:39 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     @cdevroe I also use both by the way!

     I have the blog-profile enabled @notiz.blog and my author-profile: @pfefferle@notiz.blog ☺️

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:33:40 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @pfefferle I think how the settings are makes sense. Because each “account” requires a profile, I think tying them to authors in WordPress is the best approach. I had thought about tying them to categories - but that doesn't make sense.

     It would be up to me to figure out how best to display, or not display, the author information on my site - while the content is federated under each author.

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:34:26 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • notizBlog

     @pfefferle @notiz.blog @pfefferle@notiz.blog Totally! This is great. I would have too, but my WordPress author is cdevroe rather than colin. And changing it isn't trivial.

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:55:17 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Ton Zijlstra

     @cdevroe @ton you can already have that! simply create some authors and use them as the author of the post :)

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:55:18 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Ton Zijlstra

     @ton @pfefferle Oh this is interesting... what about not worrying about categories at all... and just add the “AP account" as metadata on the post?

     So, in the ActivityPub plugin you'd create AP "accounts” - and they could be associated to authors or not. But they could also be selectable in the editor to associate a post to?

     (Obviously, this would need to be written and described much more clearly, but I would love something like this)

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     Ton Zijlstra (ton@m.tzyl.eu)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:55:29 JST Ton Zijlstra

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @cdevroe @pfefferle I'd prefer having something like a setting that determines per author profile which of the author's content gets represented in AP. Such categories are not meant imo for outside consumption, it's just an internal filter for me to manipulate various content streams. I do have categories meant as externally communicated structure. E.g. a post could be in Culture and Messages or RSS-only. The first is a content category, the latter are 'channel' categories if you will.

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:55:30 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Ton Zijlstra

     @ton @pfefferle Would you then need to create profile metadata for a category in WordPress?

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     Ton Zijlstra (ton@m.tzyl.eu)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:55:38 JST Ton Zijlstra

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @cdevroe @pfefferle Imo tying to categories can make sense, if the aim is to not share every posting by an author through AP (which is what I do, not all my posts get presented in html, not all in the feeds, some in neither but do get posted through AP e.g.) Bc my website is not _just_ a website, it's the nexus of my sharing of content, and it allows different viewers on such content (rss, html, ap, api's, others) I use categories to pipe content to specific viewers

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     Colin Devroe (cdevroe@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 23:57:42 JST Colin Devroe

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     • Matthias Pfefferle
     • Ton Zijlstra

     @pfefferle @ton 😅 I totally get that! It is just how WordPress "handles" authors more broadly that makes a single user site get muddy this way. But it is usable!

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     Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 00:00:02 JST Matthias Pfefferle

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     • Ton Zijlstra

     @ton @cdevroe you do not have to login as the author... you can simply set the author in the post-editor!

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     Ton Zijlstra (ton@m.tzyl.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 00:00:03 JST Ton Zijlstra

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     • Matthias Pfefferle

     @pfefferle @cdevroe if those content channels were mutually exclusive maybe, and perhaps if I then remembered to log in / write as which author up front.