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If you own an independently hosted WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse blog that people can follow from Mastodon:

➡️ fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-yo

Also, this method means the blog will effectively be its own Fediverse server. You won't need to rely on anyone else's server.

As the blog's owner, you will be the one deciding how long your content stays published, and there will be no character limits either.

(Note that this won't work on wordpress.com accounts, you need an indie hoster.)

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Kenny W

@feditips this beats copying and pasting on every new post I create. I'm gonna look into this.

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[nate@social0 ~]$ :idle:

@feditips I do this for our podcast, @Nate and it's so much nicer than having to manage a whole account for the podcast like I did on the old birdsite.

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`Da Elf

@feditips Yeah, about the #ActivityPub plug-in for #WordPress ...

Turn on Debug Logging and tail wp-content/debug.log

It's a Really good start, and I encourage folk to try it, but it's Not ready for a Production WordPress site.

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Paranoid Factoid

@feditips This approach has real problems with content presentation in a Mastodon timeline.

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Malick Ghachem

@feditips very helpful thanks!

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Mr. Funk E. Dude

@feditips
From the plugin...

"ActivityPub for WordPress extends WordPress with some Fediverse features, but it does not compete with platforms like Friendica or Mastodon. If you want to run a decentralized social network, please use Mastodon or GNU social."

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Aswath Rao

@feditips It will be great if there is an associated plugin that can field the received posts (not just the replies to blog posts that Webmention can do) and append to a dedicated page. Then we would have a full fledged instance.

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Stu

@feditips this is awesome 👍

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Darnell Clayton :verified:

@feditips You can use this #ActivityPub #WordPress plugin on WordPress.com if your premium plan allows plugins. My blog is hosted on WP.com & it works for me.

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Geof Hughes 🖤

@feditips Oh bugger. I'm on .com.

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Arnan de Gans

@feditips Except you can't browser any feeds or post comments anywhere - So no, it's not a Mastodon instance or a replacement for it.

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Max Riethmuller (TechLife)

@feditips enabled activitypub plug in my alt media blog, so people can follow it from the fediverse. There's another plug in, friends I think it's called, which basically turns the installation into an instance. I'm doing that on another domain.

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KennoM

@feditips now that's a tip! I'm passing it around, the idea sounds great, I'd love my blog to do that! Thanks!

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ElisabettaC77

@feditips I will test this on my blog where I use @classicpress (a WP 4.9 fork) and see if it works. Thanks for the tip!

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