Descripció

This is BETA software, see the FAQ to see the current feature set or rather what is still planned.

The plugin implements the ActivityPub protocol for your blog, which means that your readers will be able to follow your blog posts on Mastodon and other federated platforms that support ActivityPub. In addition, replies to your posts on Mastodon and related platforms will automatically become comments on your blog post.

The plugin works with the following tested federated platforms, but there may be more that it works with as well:

Here’s what that means and what you can expect.

Once the ActivityPub plugin is installed, each author’s page on your WordPress blog will become its own federated instance. In other words, if you have two authors, Jane and Bob, on your website, example.com, then your authors would have their own author pages at example.com/author/jane and example.com/author/bob. Each of those author pages would now be available to Mastodon users (and all other federated platform users) as a profile that can be followed. Let’s break that down further. Let’s say you have a friend on Mastodon who tells you to follow them and they give you their profile name @janelivesheresomeofthetime@mastodon.social. You search for her name, see her profile, and click the follow button, right? From then on, everything Jane posts on her profile shows up in your Home feed. Okay, similarly, now that Jane has installed the ActivityPub plugin on her example.com site, her friends can also follow her on Mastodon by searching for @jane@example.com and clicking the Follow button on that profile.

From now on, every blog post Jane publishes on example.com will show up on your Home feed because you follow her @jane@example.com profile.
Of course, if no one follows your author instance, then no one will ever see the posts – including you! So the easiest way to even know if the plugin is working is to follow your new profile yourself. If you already have a Mastodon profile, just follow your new one from there.

Some things to note:

Many single-author blogs have chosen to turn off or redirect their author profile pages, usually via an SEO plugin like Yoast or Rank Math. This is usually done to avoid duplicate content with your blog’s home page. If your author page has been deactivated in this way, then ActivityPub won’t work for you. Instead, you can turn your author profile page back on, and then use the option in your SEO plugin to noindex the author page. This will enable the page to be live and ActivityPub will now work, but the live page won’t cause any duplicate content issues with search engines.
Once ActivityPub is installed, only new posts going forward will be available in the fediverse. Likewise, even if you’ve been using ActivityPub for a while, anyone who follows your site, will only see new posts you publish from that moment on. They will never see previously-published posts in their Home feed. This process is very similar to subscribing to a newsletter. If you subscribe to a newsletter, you will only receive future emails, but not the old archived ones. With ActivityPub, if someone follows your site, they will only receive new blog posts you publish from then on.

So what’s the process?

Install the ActivityPub plugin.
Go to the plugin’s settings page and adjust the settings to your liking. Click the Save button when ready.
Make sure your blog’s author profile page is active.
Go to Mastodon or any other federated platform, search for your author’s new federated profile, and follow it. Your new profile will be in the form of @yourauthorname@yourwebsite.com, so that is what you’ll search for.
On your blog, publish a new post.
From Mastodon, check to see if the new post appears in your Home feed.

Please note that it may take up to 15 minutes or so for the new post to show up in your federated feed. This is because the messages are sent to the federated platforms using a delayed cron. This avoids breaking the publishing process for those cases where users might have lots of followers. So please don’t assume that just because you didn’t see it show up right away that something is broken. Give it some time. In most cases, it will show up within a few minutes, and you’ll know everything is working as expected.

Instal·lació

Seguiu les instruccions habituals per instal·lar extensions del WordPress.

Instal·lació automàtica de l’extensió

Per afegir una extensió de WordPress mitjançant l’instal·lador d’extensions integrat:

Aneu a Extensions > Afegeix nova.
Escriviu «activitypub» al quadre Cerca extensions.
Cerqueu l’extensió de WordPress que voleu instal·lar.
1. Feu clic a Detalls per obtenir més informació sobre l’extensió i les instruccions que podeu imprimir o desar per ajudar a configurar l’extensió.
2. Feu clic a Instal·la ara per instal·lar l’extensió de WordPress.
La pantalla d’instal·lació resultant mostrarà la instal·lació com a correcta o avisarà de qualsevol problema durant la instal·lació.
En cas d’èxit, feu clic a Activa l’extensió per activar-la o a Torna a l’instal·lador d’extensions per a més accions.

Instal·lació manual de l’extensió

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Si voleu controlar la ubicació i el procés d’instal·lació d’una extensió de WordPress.
Si el vostre servidor no permet la instal·lació automàtica d’una extensió de WordPress.
Si voleu provar la última versió en desenvolupament.

La instal·lació manual d’una extensió de WordPress requereix familiaritat amb FTP i la consciència que podeu posar en perill el vostre lloc web si instal·leu una extensió de WordPress incompatible amb la versió actual o d’una font poc fiable.

Feu una còpia de seguretat completa del vostre lloc web abans de continuar.

Per instal·lar un extensió del WordPress manualment:

Baixeu l’extensió de WordPress al vostre escriptori.
- Baixeu des del directori del WordPress
- Baixeu des de GitHub
Si la baixeu com a arxiu zip, extraieu la carpeta de l’extensió al vostre escriptori.
Amb el vostre programa FTP, pengeu la carpeta de l’extensió a la carpeta wp-content/plugins del vostre directori del WordPress en línia.
Aneu a la pantalla d’extensions i cerqueu a la llista l’extensió penjada recentment.
Feu clic a Activa per activar-la.

PMF

tl;dr

This plugin connects your WordPress blog to popular social platforms like Mastodon, making your posts more accessible to a wider audience. Once installed, your blog’s author pages can be followed by users on these platforms, allowing them to receive your new posts in their feeds.

Here’s how it works:

Install the plugin and adjust settings as needed.
Ensure your blog’s author profile page is active.
On Mastodon or other supported platforms, search for and follow your author’s new profile (e.g., @yourauthorname@yourwebsite.com).
Publish a new post on your blog and check if it appears in your Mastodon feed.

Please note that it may take up to 15 minutes for a new post to appear in your feed, as messages are sent on a delay to avoid overwhelming your followers. Be patient and give it some time.

Quin és l’estat d’aquesta extensió?

Implementat:

pàgines de perfil (representació JSON)
enllaços personalitzats
bústia d’entrada/sortida funcional
seguiu (accepteu seguidors)
compartiu entrades
rebeu comentaris/reaccions

Per implementar:

verificació de la signatura
millor integració del WordPress
millors possibilitats de configuració
suport de comentaris imbricats

Què és «ActivityPub for WordPress»

ActivityPub for WordPress amplia el WordPress amb algunes característiques del Fedivers, però no competeix amb plataformes com Friendica o Mastodon. Si voleu executar una xarxa social descentralitzada, utilitzeu Mastodon o GNU social.

Què passa si esteu executant el vostre blog en un subdirectori?

Perquè WebFinger funcioni, s’ha d’assignar al directori arrel de l’URL on resideix el vostre blog.

Apache

Afegiu el següent al fitxer .htaccess al directori arrel:

RedirectMatch "^\/\.well-known(.*)$" "\/blog\/\.well-known$1"

On «blog» és el camí al subdirectori on resideix el vostre blog.

Nginx

Afegiu el següent a site.conf a sites-available:

location ~* /.well-known {
    allow all;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/?$args;
}

On «blog» és el camí al subdirectori on resideix el vostre blog.

Ressenyes

Paul Schoe 29 de abril de 2023

This plugin is absolutely fabulous. I had never expected that connecting my WordPress site to the Fediverse would be SO SIMPLE. However, one thing surprised me. In the settings, the default is that it posts your 'full content' of your post to the Fediverse, rather than the more logical 400-character 'excerpt' Mastodon users won't be happy with getting posts of sometimes thousands of characters in their feed. I therefore suggest making 'excerpt' the default and people can choose 'full content' if they really wish that.

bymiki 12 de abril de 2023

A great feature for wordpress, once they have fixed the bug with webfinger

shawfactor 19 de gener de 2023 1 resposta

The indieweb and fediverse communities are doing great work and need to be acknowledged this plugin works well and the devs are constantly improving it

seindal 12 de gener de 2023

With this plugin your posts appear automatically on Mastodon. Replies on Mastodon becomes comments on your post. Really, it couldn't be easier.

shelleyp 1 de gener de 2023

Was able to subscribe to my WP weblog from Mastodon, post, and then all the replies went back as comments to my weblog post. Just lovely.

Nicole6870 15 de desembre de 2022 3 respostes

<p>I am changing my review because not only has the issue of what to do if your blog is in a subdirectory been solved, but the solution is a tiny simple little snippet of code. This is now within reach for the vast majority. Now that it is working, it works like a dream. Anybody who has to manage multiple social media presences should use this, and even if you just have one, this takes a few steps off your to-do list and will save you lots of time. Definitely install this on your site. BTW, this is also good because you really want to nurture your relationship with federated platforms. If you're concerned about both free speech for real and fighting the spread of disinformation, federated platforms are the present and the future. Support this. Spend on this. Seriously.</p>

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Project maintained on GitHub at pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub.

0.17.0

Fix type-selector
Allow more HTML elements in Activity-Objects

0.16.5

Return empty content/excerpt on password protected posts/pages

0.16.4

Remove scripts later in the queue, to also handle scripts added by blocks
Add published date to author profiles

0.16.3

“cc”, “to”, … fields can either be an array or a string
Remove “style” and “script” HTML elements from content

0.16.2

Fix fatal error in outbox

0.16.1

Fix “update and create, posts appear blank on Mastodon” issue

0.16.0

Add “Outgoing Mentions” (#213) props @akirk
Add configuration item for number of images to attach (#248) props @mexon
Use shortcodes instead of custom templates, to setup the Activity Post-Content (#250) props @toolstack
Remove custom REST Server, because the needed changes are now merged into Core.
Fix hashtags (#261) props @akirk
Change priorites, to maybe fix the hashtag issue

0.15.0

Enable ActivityPub only for users that can publish_posts
Persist only public Activities
Fix remote-delete

0.14.3

Better error handling. props @akirk

0.14.2

Fix Critical error when using Friends Plugin and adding new URL to follow. props @akirk

0.14.1

Fix “WebFinger not compatible with PHP < 8.0”. props @mexon

0.14.0

Friends support: https://wordpress.org/plugins/friends/ props @akirk
Massive guidance improvements. props mediaformat & @akirk
Add Custom Post Type support to outbox API. props blueset
Better hash-tag support. props bocops
Fix user-count (NodeInfo). props mediaformat

0.13.4

fix webfinger for email identifiers

0.13.3

fix: Create and Note should not have the same ActivityPub ID

0.13.2

fix Follow issue AGAIN

0.13.1

fix Inbox issue

0.13.0

add Autor URL and WebFinger health checks
fix NodeInfo endpoint

0.12.0

use “pre_option_require_name_email” filter instead of “check_comment_flood”. props @akirk
save only comments/replies
check for an explicit “undo -> follow” action. see https://wordpress.org/support/topic/qs-after-latest/

0.11.2

fix inconsistent %tags% placeholder

0.11.1

fix follow/unfollow actions

0.11.0

add support for customizable post-content
first try of a delete activity
do not require email for AP entries. props @akirk
fix timezones bug. props @mediaformat
fix digest header bug. props @mediaformat

0.10.1

fix inbox activities, like follow
fix debug

0.10.0

add image alt text to the ActivityStreams attachment property in a format that Mastodon can read. props @BenLubar
use the “summary” property for a title as Mastodon does. props @BenLubar
support authorized fetch to avoid having comments from “Anonymous”. props @BenLubar
add new post type: “title and link only”. props @bgcarlisle

0.9.1

disable shared inbox
disable delete activity

0.9.0

some code refactorings
fix #73

0.8.3

fixed accept header bug

0.8.2

add all required accept header
better/simpler accept-header handling
add debugging mechanism
Add setting to enable AP for different (public) Post-Types
explicit use of global functions

0.8.1

fixed PHP warnings

0.8.0

Moved followers list to user-menu

0.7.4

added admin_email to metadata, to be able to “Manage your instance” on https://fediverse.network/manage/

0.7.3

refactorings
fixed PHP warnings
better hashtag regex

0.7.2

fixed JSON representation of posts https://merveilles.town/@xuv/101907542498716956

0.7.1

fixed inbox problems with pleroma

0.7.0

finally fixed pleroma compatibility
added “following” endpoint
simplified “followers” endpoint
fixed default value problem

0.6.0

add tags as hashtags to the end of each activity
fixed pleroma following issue
followers-list improvements

0.5.1

fixed name-collision that caused an infinite loop

0.5.0

complete refactoring
fixed bug #30: Password-protected posts are federated
only send Activites when ActivityPub is enabled for this post-type

0.4.4

show avatars

0.4.3

finally fixed backlink in excerpt/summary posts

0.4.2

fixed backlink in excerpt/summary posts (thanks @depone)

0.4.1

finally fixed contact list

0.4.0

added settings to enable/disable hashtag support
fixed follower list
send activities only for new posts, otherwise send updates

0.3.2

added “followers” endpoint
change activity content from blog ‘excerpt’ to blog ‘content’

0.3.1

better json encoding

0.3.0

basic hashtag support
temporarily deactivated likes and boosts
added support for actor objects
fixed encoding issue

0.2.1

customizable backlink (permalink or shorturl)
show profile-identifiers also on profile settings

0.2.0

added option to switch between content and excerpt
removed html and duplicate new-lines

0.1.1

fixed “excerpt” in AS JSON
added settings for the activity-summary and for the activity-object-type

0.1.0

added basic WebFinger support
added basic NodeInfo support
fully functional “follow” activity
send new posts to your followers
receive comments from your followers

0.0.2

refactoring
functional inbox
nicer profile views

0.0.1

initial