Dave Winer has been talking about how he’s hooked up his WordPress blog to Mastodon.1 He raved about the possibilities it opens up. But he was light about how to do actually go about setting it up.
It seems like you need to:
- Install ActivityPub WordPress plugin.
- Click the checkbox of ‘Enable Blog-Profile’ in the settings of the plugin.
- That’s it? After that it seems like it just works. For example, you can follow this elliot.my blog by searching
@blog@elliot.myin Mastodon of other ActivityPub sites. Here’s the profile on Mastodon.cloud and Micro.blog.
I’m hoping this post will show up!
Update: this is me doing an update to see if it gets picked up by the Fediverse.
Update 2: it only bloodly works! Not only the post – even the body of the post appears! But also the edits. The edit I’m writing right now I’m sure will be picked up.
Update 3: Mastodon updates when I update here, but Micro.blog doesn’t. Oh well.
- Or more specifically ActivityPub. ↩︎