Matthias Pfefferle

Hallo @inselit ??

I would challenge the “I successfully tested following @[email protected]”. I checked your profile and couldn’t find any follower. So either you instantly unfollowed your profile or the follow haven’t worked out as expected. And if the blog has no followers, it will not publish anything.

That is why I asked ??

We invested quite some time, to do comment right (I hope we’ve done it right). So only comments directly to the post or comments that came from Mastodon, will be federated. Comments on local comments should stay local.

If you want to disable outgoing comments anyways, you can do it by setting define( 'ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_OUTGOING_INTERACTIONS', true ); in your wp-config.php.

Hey @msaari ??

Do you respond in a thread (directly to the comment) or using a new comment directly on the blog-post?

So many questions ??

I switched back to the Blog profile a pinned post and a new post I made shows up twice now.

When you post the same post with different users, mastodon might take them as separate posts.

I know I can set the visibility of each blog post. But ones posted I can not hide it anymore right? The three posts you see at the bottom are indexed posts on Mastodon. I wish I could hide them.

The problem with deleting posts by changing the visibility: Some users (like you ?? ) might play around with the visibility and because deleting a post is irrevocable on Mastodon, we are very conservative with deleting posts. If you want to delete a file, you can use the WordPress CLI with the following command:wp activitypub post delete <post-id>

I changed in my WP Blog Profile the description and first it didn’t change in Mastodon but after I switched the profiles back and forth it changed all of a sudden. Is this the way it works?

No, you do not have to change between profile settings to update a description. The plugin sends updates not in real time, to not slow down the posting experience and because it maybe has to send updates in batches, based on the number of followers. So it could always take some minutes before other servers catch up on changes.

I deactivated the AuthorProfiles Only option and switched back to the Blog profile. Still you can find the AuthorProfiles Only on Mastodon. That a bit confusing. Can I delete it or does disappear after a while?

This is the same case as with the visibility of posts. If we delete users from the fediverse, it might be irrevocable and it could be impossible to change the settings back to AuthorProfiles if you change your mind in the future. We are currently working on a “Move” feature, that allows us to forward an abandoned user profile, to (for example) the blog profile. The result is similar to the delete, but it is revocable.

Is it possible to combine my WP Blog profile on Mastodon with my already existing Mastodon account. To transfer followers and Tootsandboosts…

A “combination” is not possible, but with the same “Move” feature, I mentioned above, you will also be able to forward all your Mastodon users to WordPress.

I hope this answers your questions and sorry that some features are not implemented yet. It is quite tricky to map some Mastodon features to WordPress, because a blog in general and how you use and play around with WordPress is very different from how you use a profile on a random Mastodon instance ??

Matthias hello and thanks for reply…. I followed and unfollowed my site with my Mastodon account and still I had these issues. But now I have you as a follower it all should work fine?

I followed your site and can now see three posts.

I want to hide a few posts from the Fediverse so I changed the settings in WP but they are still there. Is it possible to hide them from my feed?

you can set the visibility of each blog post in the sidebar of the blog editor. this way you can decide if it should be published on the fediverse or not.

to delete a post from the mastodon without deleting it locally, you would have to use the WP-CLI for now.

And do you have an idea about the author Profiles Only topic. When I switch to this setting I get the warning Author URL is not accessible. (Site Health)

your blog/theme has to have accessible author pages. some SEO plugins might disable them.

Hey @ltnrkns ??

I checked your site and it seems that I am your first follower. So your site had no-one to share your posts with, before I followed it ??

Hey @puffidredz ??

This is not that easily possible, because how Mastodon is handling E-Mail like (WebFinger) Identifiers. There is no out of the box solution, that would work without coding or special webserver-configurations.

Hey @joxe ??

is it possible to write local comments?

Hey @msaari ??

I am so sorry about that! Working on a fix: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/1406

Hey @beachholiday ??

The plugin currently only adds data to the HTML page.

Is OGP in RSS a thing? Do you have an example or a documentation of that?

Not yes, but this should be doable!

Thanks for the feedback!

Hey @audunmb ??

I am sorry about that, but there is currently a bug with the Authorized Fetch setting and the blog-profile. This will be fixed in the next version. For now I would recommend to disable Authorize Fetch then it should work like you expect it.

We just released 5.3.2 with the fix!

Hey @janvandenberg ??

we are very sorry about that, it will be fixed with the next version!

Hey @anwebdesign ??

I don’t know why so many sites have chosen to use the last image instead of the first one ??

You can limit the images to one, by adding define( 'OPENGRAPH_MAX_IMAGES', 1 ) to your wp-config.php.