ClassicPress Federation
I’ve been using the excellent ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress to connect this blog to the Fediverse for several years now, and it keeps getting better. The plugin makes any WordPress blog also work like a Mastodon server, so you can follow and interact from any site running Mastodon, Akkoma, Pixelfed (image posts only, of course), Snac or my favorite, GoToSocial.
Last year some features started breaking on here as WordPress and ClassicPress diverged, and I put some stop-gap fixes in place. I never quite got around to debugging it in my spare time, though. So I was very happy to see that starting with the 7.8.3 release a couple of weeks back, ActivityPub for WordPress now explicitly checks for ClassicPress to fall back to a compatibility mode!
You still need to trick it into thinking it’s on WordPress 6.5 or later (ClassicPress 2 split off from WordPress 6.2), but the latest version fixes all the problems I’d been working around on this site, including broken comment forms and missing images on the Fediverse view of a post.
Update: I missed a scenario with filtering comment authors in comment_reply_link. I’ve manually worked around it for the moment, and when I have a chance I’ll either do a proper bug report or suggest a proper fix.
So I’d like to give a shout-out to Matthias Pfefferle and the ActivityPub Plugin team and say: thanks for fixing it!
And if anyone reading this wants to connect their WordPress or ClassicPress site directly to the Fediverse (rather than just cross-posting or auto-posting links), this plugin is still the best way to do it.
On a related note…
I finally got around to fixing Share Classicly so it won’t add its link to the Fediverse view of a post. (Aside from cutting the clutter, boosting would make more sense anyway.) That’s the plugin I made that adds a ShareOpenly link to each post, so your readers can share to a Micropub, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc. account.
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