If you have a WordPress-powered blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse server and people will be able to follow the blog from Mastodon etc.

More info on how to do this here:

➡️ fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-yo

This works through the AcitvityPub for WordPress plug-in, which has just been updated to version 1.0:

➡️ wordpress.org/plugins/activity

The plug-in is by @pfefferle in association with , one of the major players behind WordPress itself.

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Aurin Azadî

@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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73 million seconds

@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.

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GötterdämmerCät

@feditips @pfefferle
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.

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Adrian Morales

@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."

Important to know.

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Maria Langer | 🚁🛥️

@feditips @pfefferle

This is definitely something I’d like to try with all three of my Wordpress powered sites.

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Michael Bishop

@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.

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MA Caiti

@feditips @pfefferle Cool! Now do Blogger. :D

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Melroy van den Berg

@feditips @pfefferle I'm actually so happy I moved away from WordPress and only use static site generator for my blog and homepage.

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Northants Greens

@feditips @pfefferle this is something we will plan on doing once the website is running wordpress.

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Michelle Hughes

@feditips @pfefferle

When people reply to your posts, does it show up as a comment in wordpress?

Does anything happen in wordpress when they favorite or boost?

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civfanatics

@feditips @pfefferle thank you, this could be useful.

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Ayo Ayco

@feditips ☝️
This is what the Web was meant to be. People empowered to spin up servers that can communicate with other servers

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Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

@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.

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Lee 🌏

@feditips @pfefferle
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.

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Erotic Mythology (comms open)
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@feditips @pfefferle Hoping this means it's coming to Tumblr soon as well!

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Jake

@feditips @pfefferle I wish I could get this working well on my Bluehost-hosted site! They’ve got something weird in the security settings which prevents any follow requests from Mastodon from actually being accepted. Been trying to find a fix for that since October!

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Dr.Implausible

@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.

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Anna-Maria Eriksson

@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!

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