Jonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 16
I just went down this rabbithole:
Me: "Why aren't fediverse replies showing up as comments on my #WordPress blog postings?"
Me: [searches all over, finds stuff about configuring this in the block editor, discovers that my theme does not support the block editor, spends hours trying to find a theme I can tolerate that supports the block editor, eventually realizes that actually the problem isn't the non-block theme, it's that I didn't have the #Webmention plug-in installed. *sigh*]
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Mar 16
From an end-user perspective, it's annoying inbound #ActivityPub functionality in #WordPress requires a separate #Webmention plugin rather than being built into the ActivityPub plug-in.
This makes sense from a _protocol_ point of view, since full-fledged ActivityPub servers can function entirely without sending each other Webmentions, but it really doesn't make sense from a user experience point of view.
Show threadJoe CrawfordMar 16
@jik This is a reason rather than do a full AP integration I use backfill using https://www.jwz.org/hacks/mastodon-to-wp-comments.php which ends up doing what I want without needing to fundamentally change how my blog works.
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47
@artlung 🤷I don't think installing the Webmention plug-in fundamentally changes how my blog works
Mar 16 at 4:37pmWeb
Show threadJoe CrawfordMar 16
@jik Forgive whatever misimpression I gave about what I was saying. I suggested nothing about your blog. You mentioned ActivityPub plugin which I considered for a while but I didn't want to do a full integration with Mastodon. Instead I went with backfill.