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Enter the fediverse with ActivityPub, broadcasting your blog to a wider audience! Attract followers, deliver updates, and receive comments from a diverse user base of ActivityPub-compliant platforms.
With the ActivityPub plugin installed, your WordPress blog itself function as a federated profile, along with profiles for each author. For instance, if your website is example.com
, then the blog-wide profile can be found at @[email protected]
, and authors like Jane and Bob would have their individual profiles at @[email protected]
and @[email protected]
, respectively.
An example: I give you my Mastodon profile name: @[email protected]
. You search, see my profile, and hit follow. Now, any post I make appears in your Home feed. Similarly, with the ActivityPub plugin, you can find and follow Jane’s profile at @[email protected]
.
Once you follow Jane’s @[email protected]
profile, any blog post she crafts on example.com
will land in your Home feed. Simultaneously, by following the blog-wide profile @[email protected]
, you’ll receive updates from all authors.
Note: if no one follows your author or blog instance, your posts remain unseen. The simplest method to verify the plugin’s operation is by following your profile. If you possess a Mastodon profile, initiate by following your new one.
The plugin works with the following tested federated platforms, but there may be more that it works with as well:
Some things to note:
So what’s the process?
@[email protected]
or @[email protected]
, so that is what you’ll search for.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.