@D4D3MURPHY this is no longer a reason at all. Mastodon supports full posts from remote servers with (some) styling by default now... Its just that the post 'type' in what they consider valid is only 'note' and if a post is set to 'type:article' then mastodon just displays the link to it and the title. So Wordpress is getting around that by just calling their article's that federate across 'type:note'