@feditips@pfefferle Awesome concept!
You're helping us towards a place where we control our own information but it's still wonderfully 'socially connected'. I've been ranting to all who don't immediately walk away that this is how social media should be.
Thank you.
@feditips@pfefferle how do you get this to work when you have a multisite subfolder install?
My user profile works, and so does the enabled blogs who are on a standalone top domain. I have 3 or 4 blogs in a subfolder, and I can't see them on mastodon. Help please!
@feditips@pfefferle Installed it and gave it a shot last night, and while I can see the poster ID from the blog here on Mastodon (ie: @Dr.Implausible ), I'm not seeing either of the two posts I made there on here.
The link under the user profile will take me back to a filtered view of the blog.
Hmmm. Might be a me problem, granted. But very close.
Did you do the blog posts before or after you followed the account?
If no one from your server has followed an account, your server won't notice its posts. If at least one person on your server follows an account, your server will notice posts made after the following happened, but not posts made before that.
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I think it would be super helpful for the Fediverse if we could promote a few high-profile accounts that are using a using lots of Fediverse platforms, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Frednica and now Wordpress, etc all working together as one.
@MegaMichelle@feditips comments will show up in WordPress but nothing more atm. but comments/replys/reactions will be a focus topic of one of the next versions!
@feditips@pfefferle great news. Though I can only imagine all those running WooCommerce on their WP and Mastodon becoming over run with posts of stuff for sale.
@feditips@pfefferle "No, this does not work with free blogs from wordpress.com, because they do not allow installation of plug-ins. You will need an independently hosted WordPress-powered blog that allows plug-ins."
@adrianmorales@feditips for now, but we ( @mattwiebe and myself ) are about to release it on WordPress.com in the next few days/weeks. So every user will be able to use it, regardless of their tariffs.
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That's all well and good, but for me to install that plugin with WordPress, I'd need to upgrade my plan from Personal, which costs US$18/year, to Business, which costs $40/month, or US$480/year. No thanks, I can't afford that.
@feditips@pfefferle it is a good effort but I checked a few installations running this and it seems to be completely invisible on all I saw, you just have to somehow be able to know you can search for the account of a user on the fediverse... I guess it would be quite useful to have some kind of visible UI elements that get enabled with it as well.
@feditips well, I think discoverability is important and one way to make it happen is that a plugin like this offers ways to show visitors they can interact via ActivityPub. Seems like the latest version does already have that part covered per what @pfefferle said.
An even better way might be to have this in the browser in a similar way to how you used to see the RSS icon on the browser address bar at least in Firefox back when RSS was in vogue and how the Streetpass extension does it (https://streetpass.social/) but I doubt we are going to see a (or maybe rather the) major browser support this as a built-in feature anytime soon.
@feditips of course but my point was that for it would be best to have the plugin include widgets/whatever that don't even require that. Like I said when checking out a few WP sites that had this installed I noticed many of them had nothing to indicate the sites had ActivityPub.
@73ms@feditips@pfefferle There are ways to promote Mastodon/fediverse accounts on any WordPress blog (even free WordPress.Com accounts) via widgets in sidebars and footers.
I'm experimenting with ActivityPub + Friends plugins on several blogs but because the Featured Images don't display properly for me when I view them from this account, I'm not sure I want to promote those blogs directly.
I'm still manually sharing content when it's published to ensure I can see my Featured Images. But I'm probably just being prissy at this point.
The Friends plugin is still a little iffy but it's recently been enhanced and I need to scale up my experimentation to learn more about what to expect.
@michael_martinez@73ms@feditips can you send me an example post and explain to me what you do not like or what you expect? Maybe I can help you with some tweakings.
This is a recent post and the screen capture below is what I see. I don't use a Mastodon client. I only access it from the C.im Website, if that matters.
I also don't use the Gutenberg editor in WordPress. I use the Classic Editor (in case that matters).
And this post was published on a multisite network (using subdomains).
The "Not Available" is where the Featured Image should be.
@feditips@pfefferle Unfortunately it breaks #ClassicPress. Had to delete the plugin. Blog was only showing blank pages after upgrading to 1.0.0 (and it didn't work beforehand, too).
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