I run the plugin on my personal WordPress site. It was working well, but recently it seems to be having some problems with the coton function. The crown function is basically a queue of actions that run periodically based on time. Thinks like posting new WordPress posts to Mastodon. I’m sure it will get fixed soon.
@Teri_Kanefield One thing to consider, and I am getting out of my area of expertise. Before installing any WordPress plugin, make sure the plugin does not introduce a security problem. WordPress itself seems very secure but many plugins not so much. My companies website built on WordPress was hit by a security problem 2 weeks ago due to a SEO plugi. I don't have a recommendation for where to find out the security for any WordPress plugin.
Maybe. I’m in Australia and my CA CSLB complaint is languishing. Your SFO friend said he would review and send a letter, but can’t handle it beyond that. I’ll be back November first.
@Teri_Kanefield I tried it briefly. I noticed that it made my username my WordPress username even if the display name was different. There didn't seem to be any way to change this.
This was a big problem because I used my admin account as the sole account on this small site and I don't want that the username advertised.
I don't have comments on this particular site so I think I'm going to remove the plug-in. It's nice but not suited to my needs at the moment.
@Teri_Kanefield I installed it for my blog and it created an instance. However, none of my posts appeared on the instance, and I wasn't able to follow it with my Mastodon account. (I have a self-hosted blog)
What I do instead is I have a separate Mastodon account on botsin.space and I post to it using a WordPress plugin named Mastodon Autopost.
There are other plugins for this purpose, including Jetpack from WordPress, which added Mastodon to its Sharing service.
@Teri_Kanefield I have it turned on for GeekDad.com. It lets every one of our members have an account on our domain and everything they publish goes out as a Mastodon post under their name. With the Friends co-plugin, responses become comments too. Really neat!
@Teri_Kanefield I kind of have ignored my art Wordpress for sometime now, due to illness and have not done any art since then. It may be fun to go back in and upgrade it and connect it to Mastodon. Though I find art here gets crickets, or maybe it is just my art is not very well received?😄
@Teri_Kanefield I tried it and didn't like it. One of my followers turned me on to #Ghost as a replacement for #WordPress. Ghost is so much better. Check out my blog at https://goblackcat.com. This will give you an idea of what Ghost looks like. Ghost looks to be better for people who like writing and publishing whereas WordPress has more or less morphed into something for business with a side of blogging.
@Teri_Kanefield I have a blog hosted by Wordpress, I tried to follow their instructions, but was unable to make it work. It acted like it was going to work, the account looks like it is there, but I can't figure out how to follow it and I could not see a new post from the Mastodon side.
@dr2chase@Teri_Kanefield Probably their bug, sure. If Teri is using a self hosted Wordpress install rather than using Wordpress to do the hosting then it may be the issue I ran into.
@Teri_Kanefield The docs I've seen are all about creating a new account with new postings. This actually makes me worried that existing posts can't be connected.
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