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This category is about the integration of ActivityPub into WordPress.
There is no “official” WordPress plugin, but several projects instead. Let us know if you are working on an implementation.
I just installed your plugin, but comments are not shared yet and you can’t choose the number of words, or a custom tagline for the Activitypub post.
Could you give us a roadmap of the plugin development @pfefferle ?
The comments will be shared only one way (comments on you posts on mastodon & co. will be sent to your blog), but there is currently an issue, that moves most of the comments to the “trash”. Can you verify this?
You can choose to use the excerpt as content for your toots, so you can start using that. The limitation of a number of words, really only works for plain text, otherwise it can become very complex, because I have to be sure that a stripped text does not break the HTML DOM.
There is currently no real roadmap, but I try to start implementing the issues with the most feedback on GitHub or in the forum here.
And another request: I would like to share user details like roles with the rest of the Fediverse, so when someone writes an article/DM, the Fediverse knows if he’s an admin or another role. Is it possible ?
Could it be partial, with only the DMs revealing a user role ?
I’m new to activityPub, but I think it works with json-ld, right ?
So I guess you could specify the roles in the json activitystream file, with an attribute “role”, under “author”. We could imagine something like this :
{"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"type": "Create",
"id": "https://chatty.example/ben/p/51086",
"to": ["https://social.example/alyssa/"],
"inReplyTo": "https://social.example/alyssa/posts/49e2d03d-b53a-4c4c-a95c-94a6abf45a19",
"author": "https://chatty.example/ben/",
"role": "admin",
"object": {"type": "Note",
"id": "https://chatty.example/ben/p/51085",
"attributedTo": "https://chatty.example/ben/",
"to": ["https://social.example/alyssa/"],
"content": "<p>Argh, yeah, sorry, I'll get it back to you tomorrow.</p>
<p>I was reviewing the section on register machines,
since it's been a while since I wrote one.</p>"}}
Sure, you can extend the role, but then no other plattform will interpret/display it (at least for now). Can you explain your plans with the user role?
I want to make a Discord python bot that uses ActivityPub. You would have to ping him to get your Discord role, only if you have the wordpress role. That’s why I need the role
Not sure if it’s the best place for this, but I need to drop the idea somewhere There’s a feature I think would greatly broaden usability and encourage implementation of the ActivityPub plugin, translating to more content being pushed into the Fediverse: a lot of pages on Wordpress (possibly most?) are not personal blogs, but sites of groups, collectives, companies and other organizations. That means possibly a lot of authors (for example one of my collectives would have ~10), that are sometimes far more interested in broadcasting as a single stream, than individually. And that goes both ways; if I only follow some people on a page, I might not notice new ones. Option of a shared feed for all of the authors, or maybe even per category would be very helpful here.
I can imagine this would come with it’s own set of complications, but the potential of turning over, for example, NGO’s, being content generators extremely interested in direct contact with supporters, on to fediverse would be massive. It would both encourage them to properly run their websites, and show them there’s life outside of corporate networks, all with nearly no overhead for them.
Hi pfefferle! Have you done any thought already about designing tools to integrate AP with a Buddypress based Wordpress installation? I feel like this might have a large impact, perhaps even moreso than with individual blogs.
There are Buddypress sites that are dedicated to open source academics or “digital humanities” , a good example is hcommons.org or my personal passion project, poetry.garden – for decentralized literature publishing.
The customization that wordpress offers – templating, themes, etc… – to Buddypress social media networks, would quickly make it a powerful force in popularizing the fediverse, I believe – as it would open doors for the increased accessibility for developping unique products on the Fediverse network.
I am using your plugin on my site already, and I am working on trying to modify it for a Buddypress installation, but running into some major challenges. I plan to continue working on it, and I would be delighted at the opportunity to collaborate with anybody on here.
I just managed to have my WordPress 5.7.2 + PHP 7.3.24 (@pch_xyz@pchxyz.dscloud.mobi) to federate with a Mastodon instance. After that, I found the profile wouldn’t update when I check it on liker.social and g0v.social despite the post showed up on the former but not on the latter, and I couldn’t follow @pch_xyz@pchxyz.dscloud.mobi from my Misskey instance misskey.seediqbale.xyz, nor can I follow it from other Misskey/Pleroma instances, they showed processing / awaiting for approval although the identifier info is in the Followers (Fediverse) tab ubder wp-admin. Also tried saving permanent links and using Webfinger plugin for the WordPress but they don’t work.
Any suggestions?
[UPDATE] I can see post from Misskey and Pleroma now, maybe it just takes longer. However, profile iscstill not up to date, and the follow request is not accepted.
Is it possible for tags to be converted from slugs to #CamelCase hashtags, which is the more traditional format?
Also, I noticed if I delete a post, it still displays on the profile on other instances. Is that just how things are in the fediverse? Also, if I delete a user on the WP site, it still shows up in a search on other instances. Are these just a result of the instance caching that info?
Hello! I’m curious about why full content is the default post-content setting for the ActivityPub Wordpress plugin.
I just shared my first Wordpress post after adding the plugin and hadn’t thought about how the default full-text share would look across various Mastodon clients. It was truncated with a read more link to expand on Ivory and Mastodon Web, which felt nice. After boosting it from my primary Mastodon account, I realized that Mastodon iOS, Mastoot, Elk, and Ice Cubes all rendered the entire blog post inline.
This seems like a better place to ask than the plugin support forum as it’s really a philosophical question about how blog content should be federated and consumed across various platforms. It’s also not urgent as there are plenty of options to customize the output, but I would think most publishers (and maybe subscribers as well) would expect “Title and link” or “Excerpt”.
My 5 cent: The ActivityPub plugin is not meant to be a crossposting thing, the text should be readable on the plattform of your choice (mastodon, pixelfed, …) and you do not have to visit the page to read the full content…
The hashtag support is very basic and produces a lot of issues, because it there are a lot of difficulties you have with HTML instead of simple plain text posts as created on microblogging services. So I am not sure if this is a good idea at all
The remote delete problem was a bug, that is fixed in the latest version.
Thanks for the quick response @pfefferle and that’s fair.
I’ve created accounts on pixelfed, micro.blog, and a handful of Mastodon instances trying to wrap my head around the federated model.
It really should be up to the platforms and clients to present various forms and lengths of ActivityPub content better, but I definitely felt bad for my Mastodon followers after seeing the infinite scroll caused by the long list of resources at the end of my latest blog post.
But please start new topics in the WordPress category if you want to discuss something. I think it is easier and simpler as using this introduction post for everything.
There’s a feature I think would greatly broaden usability and encourage implementation of the ActivityPub plugin, translating to more content being pushed into the Fediverse: a lot of pages on Wordpress (possibly most?) are not personal blogs, but sites of groups, collectives, companies and other organizations. That means possibly a lot of authors (for example one of my collectives would have ~10), that are sometimes far more interested in broadcasting as a single stream, than individually. And that goes both ways; if I only follow some people on a page, I might not notice new ones. Option of a shared feed for all of the authors, or maybe even per category would be very helpful here.
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