Notices by Elena Rossini (ele@elenarossini.com)

https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

Hello Fedi friends!

I’m currently experimenting with the POSSE method of publishing (“Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”) on my federated WordPress site (this one) so that I can more easily organize posts and retrieve them in the future. This is the first of such posts.

I have created a “micro” post category and edited the functions.php file of my WordPress blog to exclude such posts from the main blog.

Here is the code I’m using:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-2132’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );

Where -2132 is the number assigned to the category “micro”.

You can find the category number by hovering over it in the Categories menu.

I also plan to tweak my site’s navigation menu to make “micro” appear under the blog category.

At some point in the future that will replace the “blog”… otherwise it’s too confusing to follow how many blogs I actually have.

I am also debating whether to migrate my GoToSocial account to WordPress using the MOVE function. What’s holding me back for now? I will need to be able to implement Serdy’s blocklists here before I do that. I experienced some terrible trolling and abusive messages when I didn’t have blocklists in place on my GoToSocial account last month, so I learned my lesson.

And I’d like to see how “social” the Friends for WordPress plugin by Alex Kirk is, before I consolidate my two accounts.

Anyway, this is all really exciting, made possible by the magic of #ActivityPub and the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin by @pfefferle. Thank you Matthias!

Onwards and upwards!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

#ActivityPub #micro #MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Fantastic! Yes I may reach out for advice soon. First burning question: do you have any manuals to recommend?

Trying out the ActivityPub x WordPress plugin for the first time, so I can federate this post.

You have no idea what I’m talking about? I have launched a new blog series called The Future is Federated to introduce the Fediverse to “regular” people. You can find it on my Ghost blog.

See you on the Fediverse!

Elena

P.S.: you can also find me on Mastodon (the Fediverse’s answer to X) at @_elena@mastodon.social and on Pixelfed (the Fediverse’s answer to Instagram) at elenarossini@pixelfed.social

https://elenarossini.com/2024/07/hello-fediverse/

#ActivityPub #blog #fediverse #thefutureisfederated #writing