That’s not WordPress.org
WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms | TechCrunch
Submitted 1 year ago by Geert@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It would be amazing if we could have a “WordPress community of the day/week” bot so we could discover them.
This is so exciting.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I miss the ‘next blog’ button on Blogspot that would randomly take you to another blog. It was great.
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I found one under communities so far and if you’re curious it’s !pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com It appears to work just like any other community.
Crul@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Not sure if it’s a typo or a front-end rendering issue. But I see your link wrong. The correct one would be:
!pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.comFor lemm.ee:
lemm.ee/…/pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordp…GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
How did you get lemm.ee to connect to it? I cannot open it on my instance; it just gives me “The server returned this error: couldnt_find_community.” When I try to run a search it just brings up these comments. I think the URL format in the community name is breaking Lemmy, but clearly it worked on your instance so I’m confused.
This URL loads but gives me that error work: …sdf.org/…/pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.word…
This link doesn’t work correctly: !pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 1 year ago
OK, thanks! I must have mangled it when I pasted it.
ram@bookwormstory.social 1 year ago
Huh it works on lemm.ee, lemmy.ca, and even the canonical instance
.ml. But not on bookwormstory.social.
I wonder why that would be? But also, I’m not really worried. Maybe 0.19.0 will fix whatever’s broken.CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !pfefferle@lemm.ee
4am@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Are comments from other platforms supposed to appear beneath blog posts like that? I suppose it depends on how WordPress has implemented their federation. If it is supposed to work, it might also depend on how often WordPress pulls in information from other sources; I wonder what their default federation settings are? Does a blog automatically federate everywhere? Or would they have a more allow-list model to prevent comment sections becoming a moderation nightmare for blog authors?
I suppose I should look this up 😇
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I run a little webcomics hosting platform and I really want to do the same thing, just haven’t taken the time to do it yet. Seems like an obvious win so everyone can follow along using the platform of their choosing.
sirico@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
WordPress.com is different from the open-source software WordPress (WordPress.org)
Geert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Care to elaborate?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Earlier this year, WordPress.com owner Automattic acquired a plugin that allowed WordPress blogs to be followed in the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others.
As a result, it launched version 1.0.0 of the plugin, allowing WordPress blogs to be followed on Mastodon and other fediverse apps.
That means anyone using the hosted version of the open-source WordPress software now has the ability to tie into the fediverse, connecting their blog to federated platforms like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, and others.
By using the plugin, the blog itself can also become the user’s profile in the fediverse, instead of having to set up an account directly on a federated app, like Mastodon.
To implement the plugin on Free, Personal, and Premium WordPress.com hosted sites, you simply head into the Discussion section with Settings from the blog’s dashboard and enable the toggle titled “Enter the fediverse.” From there, you’ll make note of your default fediverse name, which references the blog’s domain (e.g. “openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com@openprotocolfanblog.wordpress.com.”) That profile can then be shared with others so they can follow it on Mastodon or other platforms.
That could expand the fediverse’s numbers, as well, given that Automattic’s own statistics indicate that over 409 million people view more than 20 billion pages each month on WordPress.com websites.
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Chunk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you follow rss feeds on the fediverse?
Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck WordPress.com. They intentionally lead people to conflate the open-source software WordPress and their own proprietary and overpriced version.
WormFood@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the same organisation makes both, they just release a subset of their work as the open source version of WordPress. it’s a pretty standard business model for this kind of software
Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That is incorrect. Automattic donates some work to the open-source project, but they are in no way the same thing.