@pfefferle
Very helpful!
Just made aware of the plug-in and set it up for my blog. Is there any possibility to edit the blog profile on Mastodon? I wanted to delete a post, change the profile picture and add something to the bio. #WordPress#ActivityPub
@pfefferle@mattwiebe Sehr cool!
Wie folge ich denn jetzt bspw. https://wordpress.com/blog/ - Unten in der Ecke ist ein Block "Follow" - aber der scheint damit nichts zu tun zu haben.
Gibt es irgendwo eine Übersicht der Blogs von Wordpress.com, denen ich folgen könnte?
@pfefferle@mattwiebe Ach was. Nicht peinlich. Die Alternative wäre gewesen, das Feature für alle zu verzögern, weil das eigene Blog noch nicht umgestellt ist.
Aber generell kann ich nicht einfach nach @wordpres.com suchen und bekomme dann Blogs angezeigt, denen ich folgen kann, oder?
Follow-up q about authors: it’s so far not possible to “hide” authors, right? And only those with existing posts are visible?
I have two cases in mind. An old author that might distract from newer ones. And - more importantly - a silent admin account that should stay invisible.
@kaffeeringe@pfefferle@mattwiebe Yes, that’s true. I’m more curious about the visibility of the authors as such. My admin account doesn’t show in a web search here, but is mentioned (and fixed) in the plugin. I’m not even sure it’s a niche case or best security practice I picked up somewhere…
@b3n@kaffeeringe@mattwiebe there are two modes that you can combine. We introduced a blog-user that represents the whole blog and we have authors (all author has his profile in the fediverse).
Only Blog-User enabled: Blog user federates all posts regardless of the author
Only Authors: every post will be federated using the author account
Both enabled: every post will be federated using the author account and the blog user boosts that post.
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@pfefferle@mattwiebe Thank you for your work!
Is there any running example of Wordpress with ActivityPub plugin enabled so I can test how it works from user point of view?
@pfefferle@mattwiebe I am wondering about how it will work on Wordpress, as far as I know, you cannot just delete the ActivityPub without a proper remove like tootctl self-destruct command to not leave cache on another server and if you did forget, it would do a funky thing especially if you use the same domain.
So I wonder if the Wordpres plug-in already thinks about this problem and if it is safe to install and uninstall the plug-in without any problem.
@dokter@mattwiebe this is indeed a good point. The plugin currently does not support a complete wipe out. It should be easy doable on WordPress.com but is really tricky on self installed versions.
@pfefferle@mattwiebe Done. I hope in the future release it will implemented.
The only thing that concerns me is not installing the plug-in to my self-hosted WordPress due to this problem.
If in the future I have to move my host will it break my ActivityPub federation, comments on my blog, etc.
Since connection to ActivityPub is good and it will put a new breath to WordPress since the blog will be back as a blog since people can comment and discuss something not just a static site.
@pfefferle@mattwiebe I didn't know this was coming to non-Business sites, so this is amazing. I activated it immediately on my blog.
After testing though, I realized that one of the "fine-grained controls" not available to non-Business sites is the ability to restrict the AP content to just excerpts. This is quite a dealbreaker for me as I'd rather not have my articles being syndicated in full. Am I missing something or is this really not available for configuration? I'll reluctantly disable AP for my site in the meantime.
Perhaps for other bloggers it's not as much of a big deal, so this is still great news. Thanks for working on this. 🍻
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