What the title says.
Or, at least, I hope so, as I’m unsure everything is working as it should.
The ActivityPub part I tested myself seems to be all fine, so anyone on Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Pixelfed, and so on, can look up for the user blog@www.whateverthewindbrings.com and follow it to see blog updates directly on their timeline. Any comment made under those posts will show up as comments on this blog, which is pretty nifty and cool.
As for the webmentions, this blog now should, I hope, ping back back and forth whenever some other site using webmentions is mentioned or post links from here. In the comments section there’s a field to make a manual webmention with instructions. Not sure if it’s working, but it should be.
Anyway, that’s the advantage of WordPress, I guess: despite the reliance on plugins to do stuff, which also makes it vulnerable, most of the time one just needs to install something to get extra functionality and get everything working on their own.
I’m not gonna lie: I like WordPress. It’s easier to customize than Ghost, which I’ve used as self-hosted up to a few weeks ago, or Bear Blog, which I love but doesn’t have natively some of the features I like from WordPress (especially when I have to use multimedia). However, considering Matt Mullenweg’s shenanigans these last few weeks, I’ll see if I’ll continue on WordPress or if I’ll move to Bear Blog when my credits end on PikaPods. Everything will depend on how the people behind wordpress.org1 react to whatever is going on in the next few months.
But, for now at least, this blog federates and webmentions.
- Forever confusing for almost everyone, wordpress.com is a for-profit company that hosts WordPress websites and belongs to Automattic, of which Matt Mullenweg is the CEO. Meanwhile, wordpress.org is the website of the open-source WordPress project, which can be self-hosted (as I’m doing right now) and doesn’t have any relation to Matt Mullenweg, although he seems to be on the board of the WordPress Foundation. ↩︎
hi! Just wanted to say I really appreciate all the writing you’ve been doing on these different blogging systems! It’s been really useful in showing what can be done with blogging, what each system requires to set up a blog, and what’s missing from each one!
Hey, thanks a lot! I figured that if I was having such a hard time, more people would probably be going through the same, so writing it out could help. I’m glad you and others found it useful!