https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

Hello Fedi friends,

Yesterday I started posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here) so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my GoToSocial account started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.

So far so good!

The script I mentioned in yesterday’s post did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are in a category of their own.

This is what “My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category looks like right now:

I just installed Alex Kirk‘s plugin Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app Ivory for iOS!

It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.

Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in Phanpy.social and the app Mona for iOS for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.

It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this @alex !

If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!

Onwards and upwards!

Elena

P.S.: for all my social links, check out: elena.social

#AlexKirk #EnableMastodonApps #fediverse #micro #myAdventuresInSelfHosting #mySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLife #plugins #selfHosting #WordPress