In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse -- the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others -- with the acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is announcing ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has been released allowing WordPress blogs to be followed by others on apps like Mastodon and others in the fediverse and then receive replies back as comments on their own sites. It also introduced the ability to add a "follow me" block to help visitors follow your profile and a "followers" block to show off your followers, noted Automattic design engineer Matt Wiebe, in a post on X.

In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse – the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others – with the acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is announcing ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has been released allowing WordPress blogs to be followed by others on apps like Mastodon and others in the fediverse and then receive replies back as comments on their own sites.

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    The headline is misleading in that the plugin has existed for years. It does seem a little more polished lately.

    On the other hand, the Friends plugin which can act as a fediverse client used a lot of CPU and didn’t reliably publish replies last I tried it about a month ago. I hope it improves, but I can’t recommend Wordpress as a full fediverse participant just yet.

      • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely. I do have a site running on Wordpress that currently cross-posts to Mastodon and it would be nice to consolidate.

  • RxBrad@lemmings.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Kind of a bummer that only the content you post after installing the plugin actually gets published anywhere. But that’s federation.

  • Anonymousllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Good to see more platforms starting to focus more seriously on the fediverse, plenty of great little WordPress.com blogs out there that would be perfect candidates for federation

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    It would be cool if there was a lemmy community for good blogs to follow. I like the idea of following blogs but I don’t know how to find interesting ones.