Request: Mastodon

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out!

I will pass along your featured request to have this added to our development team. I would not be able to share a timeline on when it would be added, I am very sorry.

Kind regards,

Thanks for the quick response!

But… I’ve moved on to another solution, at least for now: the WPZoom plugin.

That one still has a deficiency, though; Mastodon requires a rel=”me” tag in a link to your profile from the site in order to verify your account.

So if you were able to add customized rel tags as well as Mastodon, I’d swing back over to you. ??

Thanks again!

It really is actually an easy and quick fix, I’ve done it on https://www.slated.ie (see footer) in less than 2 minutes. However, it really should be in this actual plugin by now, especially with so many jumping ship from Twitter.

Have a look at this tutorial: https://github.com/studiopress/simple-social-icons/wiki/Add-an-additional-icon-in-version-2.0

Or if you are not happy coding in anyway use this below version (includes the rel=”me” thing but will be overwritten by any plugin updates. Hopefully, updates will have same mastadon code!)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t7wjm7ipthqyg8f/simple-social-icons.zip?dl=1

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Paul Scollon. Reason: Added link to hacked plugin file

Thanks for that, Paul.

I can lightly hack the code, but I try to avoid it when possible to make sure changes don’t get clobbered in updates.

FWIW, I’ve also put a but in Zapier’s ear about adding Mastodon connection, but it’s apparently something that would be in Mastodon’s court.

Lots of fiddling involved in these migrations.

Thanks again!

Thank you Paul for your hack, I checked the modifications and they are so simple. Quick and nice fix.