Submitted 1 year ago by moldyringwald@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
When I used to blog 10+ years ago I had a killer list of WordPress blogs I followed but as time went on I sort of gave up on the whole blogging thing and forgot about most of them. Now that WP is part of the fediverse I’m curious, what are some of your favorites?
Just curious, how does WP federation work with Lemmy/Kbin or other Fediverse platforms?
Actually I’m not sure, I know you can follow them on mastodon
While not blogs, im a big fan of Webnovels.
Check out Worm and Twig from wildbow and Practical Guide to Evil by EE. Some great stories and im sure there are even more
Awesome, will do!
The thing about WordPress federation… Nothing shows up outside of the actual blog unless it was published after the federation happened.
Aw dang that makes sense. Like when you migrate servers on mastodon you can’t import posts. Well at any rate it will be cool to see how it unfolds.
dot20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Self-hosted WordPress blogs were actually already able to federate with the fediverse (if the blog admin installs the requisite plugin). The recent news is that blogs hosted on WordPress.com are now also able to federate.
WordPress.com is the name of the hosting service by the creators of WordPress, but you can also choose to host the WordPress software elsewhere (and many do).
Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also note that WordPress.org is run by a non-profit organization which is separate from Automatic, the for-profit business that provides hosting for their own proprietary version of WordPress that costs significantly more than the vast majority of WordPress hosting platforms that provide an unmodified version with all of the features and none locked out behind a paywall.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Moved my personal site off of WordPress around 5 years ago because, for my single-user purposes it was resource heavy compared to a static site generator like Hugo or Pelican. I also had quite a lot of spam traffic, even with anti-spam plugins, and eventually I just disabled comments outright and the new user registration page. Admittedly, I was never that active with it, so I’m fully willing to accept that it could have been a me problem.
I also recall the general security of WordPress being a concern around that time, mostly because it was a popular target, so a big part of me moving to a static site generator was just to avoid having to constantly get on and update WordPress for security patches, when I only posted on the blog a few times a year at most.
Fediverse support has me considering returning to WordPress, but I’m curious how much upkeep running your own instance is these days.
dot20@lemmy.world 1 year ago
IIUC the main problem with security (and how most WP sites get pwned) is the plugin ecosystem. There are thousands of plugins out there, which means that among many secure ones, there are also many insecure ones. If you’re judicious and don’t install low-quality plugins, it shouldn’t be a major problem.
WordPress itself has automatic updates turned on by default, so if a vulnerability is discovered with WP core, the patch will land on your site automatically without any effort on your part.
One plugin that’s I use on my WP sites is the Wordfence firewall. They have a free version, and while not really necessary given the above, it does give a little peace of mind.
All that said, the main draw for WP is to be able to manage a website without having to touch code. If you’re happy to write your pages by hand, a static site generator is definitely a lot more lightweight than a CMS like WordPress.
Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s literally the same issues, except that the market usage of WordPress is much higher now at over 43% of the entire Internet and around 60% of sites that use a CMS.