WordPress is turning 20 this week. WordPress is such a big part of my life, I must join in and celebrate.
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This came up on the Fediverse: @[email protected] wanted to automatically add titles to the posts on his microblog.
This automation would have to be compatible with all the editors, including the mobile app.
Following yesterday’s post, I’d like to do a bit of a follow-up. Sometimes you “just” want to add a Mastodon icon to your site, linking to your Mastodon profile:
I have one just like that on my home page, alongside my other Social Media links.
In this post, I’ll cover 3 different ways to add such an icon to your site.
After dipping my toes into the Fediverse for the past few months, I wanted the Jetpack plugin to be there to help bloggers who wanted to interact more with the Fediverse on their sites.
Jetpack includes Sharing buttons that can be handy for your readers to quickly share your posts to their Social Network of choice ; adding a Mastodon button seemed like a no-brainer!
If you’re actively blogging on WordPress and have been playing with Mastodon et al. in the past few months, you probably came across the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
The plugin implements the ActivityPub protocol for your site. It allows others to follow your blog from their Mastodon / Pleroma / GoToSocial account. If they reply to one of your blog’s posts there, their reply will be posted as a comment on your blog.
This is already pretty neat! But starting today with the release of version 0.16.1 of the plugin, you can even mention other ActivityPub users in your posts. When you hit Publish, they’ll be notified of your post inside their client of choice.
I’m re-publishing a conversation I had a few days ago on the Fediverse, following an excellent question from Phil Johnston:
If you’re a WordPress person who publishes more on social media than on your WP site (sadly this is still currently me), does that say anything about WordPress?
Phil Johnston (@[email protected])
I felt compelled to reply, as I’ve struggled with some version of this question myself for years. Fair warning, I’m heavily involved with WordPress, so my answer is quite biased :)
I am heavily involved with WordPress, yet I don’t post that often on this site.
What does this say about WordPress?
I find myself thinking about the Fediverse a lot these days. Probably a lot more than I should. I’m probably just easily influenced by all the chatter going on, and excited to tinker with something new.
tl;dr: I’m now on the Fediverse, at @[email protected].
Let’s talk a bit about a big part of my job today. I currently work at Automattic where I help maintain the Jetpack plugin. I spend most of my day on GitHub, where I guide others as they contribute changes. I spend more time reviewing others’ code than writing my own these days. And that’s okay! I enjoy it a lot. Let me tell you a bit more about my code reviewing process. Let me know what you think about it, and don’t hesitate to share your own experiences and tips in the comments!
The Jetpack plugin comes with a number of blocks and editor extensions. One of those features extends the existing Media blocks, and adds an option to find and upload images from Google Photos or Pexels:
While this can be super useful when you use Google Photos or need to find free stock photos for your posts, you may sometimes prefer to only see the default “Media Library” option.
I’ve recently had to think about calculating time intervals in a little WordPress plugin of mine, and I thought I would share my findings. Maybe some of you will have some ideas on how to improve things even further :)