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Enter the fediverse with ActivityPub, broadcasting your blog to a wider audience! Attract followers, deliver updates, and receive comments from a diverse user base of ActivityPub-compliant platforms.

With the ActivityPub plugin installed, your WordPress blog itself functions as a federated profile, along with profiles for each author. For instance, if your website is example.com, then the blog-wide profile can be found at @example.com@example.com, and authors like Jane and Bob would have their individual profiles at @jane@example.com and @bob@example.com, respectively.

An example: I give you my Mastodon profile name: @pfefferle@mastodon.social. You search, see my profile, and hit follow. Now, any post I make appears in your Home feed. Similarly, with the ActivityPub plugin, you can find and follow Jane’s profile at @jane@example.com.

Once you follow Jane’s @jane@example.com profile, any blog post she crafts on example.com will land in your Home feed. Simultaneously, by following the blog-wide profile @example.com@example.com, you’ll receive updates from all authors.

Note: If no one follows your author or blog instance, your posts remain unseen. The simplest method to verify the plugin’s operation is by following your profile. If you possess a Mastodon profile, initiate by following your new one.

The plugin works with the following tested federated platforms, but there may be more that it works with as well:

Some things to note:

The blog-wide profile is only compatible with sites with rewrite rules enabled. If your site does not have rewrite rules enabled, the author-specific profiles may still work.
Many single-author blogs have chosen to turn off or redirect their author profile pages, usually via an SEO plugin like Yoast or Rank Math. This is usually done to avoid duplicate content with your blog’s home page. If your author page has been deactivated in this way, then ActivityPub author profiles won’t work for you. Instead, you can turn your author profile page back on, and then use the option in your SEO plugin to noindex the author page. This will still resolve duplicate content issues with search engines and will enable ActivityPub author profiles to work.
Once ActivityPub is installed, only new posts going forward will be available in the fediverse. Likewise, even if you’ve been using ActivityPub for a while, anyone who follows your site will only see new posts you publish from that moment on. They will never see previously-published posts in their Home feed. This process is very similar to subscribing to a newsletter. If you subscribe to a newsletter, you will only receive future emails, but not the old archived ones. With ActivityPub, if someone follows your site, they will only receive new blog posts you publish from then on.

So what’s the process?

Install the ActivityPub plugin.
Go to the plugin’s settings page and adjust the settings to your liking. Click the Save button when ready.
Make sure your blog’s author profile page is active if you are using author profiles.
Go to Mastodon or any other federated platform, and search for your profile, and follow it. Your new profile will be in the form of either @your_username@example.com or @example.com@example.com, so that is what you’ll search for.
On your blog, publish a new post.
From Mastodon, check to see if the new post appears in your Home feed.

Note: It may take up to 15 minutes or so for the new post to show up in your federated feed. This is because the messages are sent to the federated platforms using a delayed cron. This avoids breaking the publishing process for those cases where users might have lots of followers. So please don’t assume that just because you didn’t see it show up right away that something is broken. Give it some time. In most cases, it will show up within a few minutes, and you’ll know everything is working as expected.

Ảnh màn hình

The "Follow me"-Block in the Block-Editor — The “Follow me”-Block in the Block-Editor

The "Followers"-Block in the Block-Editor — The “Follow me”-Block in the Block-Editor

Khối

Plugin này cung cấp 13 khối.

ActivityPub Dashboard Stats ActivityPub statistics dashboard widget
ActivityPub Reply Intent Handler Handles reply intents for federated conversations in the block editor.
Posts and Replies Display a tab bar to filter between posts only and posts with replies on author archives.
Fediverse Reactions Display Fediverse likes and reposts for your posts.
Fediverse Followers Display your followers from the Fediverse on your website.
Fediverse Extra Fields Display extra fields from Fediverse user profiles.
Federated Reply Reply to posts, notes, and other content on the Fediverse directly from the block editor.
ActivityPub Stats Display your annual Fediverse stats as a shareable card.
ActivityPub Command Palette Registers ActivityPub commands for the WordPress Command Palette.
ActivityPub Post Format Suggestions Suggests optimal post formats for ActivityPub federation before publishing.
Fediverse Following Display the accounts you follow in the Fediverse on your website.
Follow me on the Fediverse Display your Fediverse profile so that visitors can follow you.
ActivityPub Editor Integration Adds ActivityPub settings and controls to the WordPress block editor.

Cài đặt

Follow the normal instructions for installing WordPress plugins.

Automatic Plugin Installation

To add a WordPress Plugin using the built-in plugin installer:

Go to Plugins > Add New.
Type “activitypub” into the Search Plugins box.
Find the WordPress Plugin you wish to install.
1. Click Details for more information about the Plugin and instructions you may wish to print or save to help setup the Plugin.
2. Click Install Now to install the WordPress Plugin.
The resulting installation screen will list the installation as successful or note any problems during the install.
If successful, click Activate Plugin to activate it, or Return to Plugin Installer for further actions.

Manual Plugin Installation

There are a few cases when manually installing a WordPress Plugin is appropriate.

If you wish to control the placement and the process of installing a WordPress Plugin.
If your server does not permit automatic installation of a WordPress Plugin.
If you want to try the latest development version.

Installation of a WordPress Plugin manually requires FTP familiarity and the awareness that you may put your site at risk if you install a WordPress Plugin incompatible with the current version or from an unreliable source.

Backup your site completely before proceeding.

To install a WordPress Plugin manually:

Download your WordPress Plugin to your desktop.
- Download from the WordPress directory
- Download from GitHub
If downloaded as a zip archive, extract the Plugin folder to your desktop.
With your FTP program, upload the Plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins folder in your WordPress directory online.
Go to Plugins screen and find the newly uploaded Plugin in the list.
Click Activate to activate it.

Hỏi đáp

tl;dr

This plugin connects your WordPress blog to popular social platforms like Mastodon, making your posts more accessible to a wider audience. Once installed, your blog can be followed by users on these platforms, allowing them to receive your new posts in their feeds.

What is “ActivityPub for WordPress”

ActivityPub for WordPress adds Fediverse features to WordPress, but it is not a replacement for platforms like Friendica or Mastodon. If you’re looking to host a decentralized social network, consider using Mastodon or Friendica.

Is this a Mastodon crossposter? Can it post to my existing Mastodon account?

No. A crossposter pushes copies of your posts to a separate account you already have on someone else’s server. ActivityPub for WordPress does the opposite: it makes your own site a first-class Fediverse account (@you@example.com), so people follow your site directly and replies come back as WordPress comments, with no second account required.

The plugin will not add crossposting to an existing account; that is a deliberate choice, not a missing feature. If you would rather mirror articles to an established Mastodon account, that is a job for a dedicated crossposter plugin.

Why “ActivityPub”?

The name ActivityPub comes from the two core ideas behind the protocol:

Activity: It is based on the concept of activities, like “Create”, “Like”, “Follow”, “Announce”, etc. These are structured messages (usually in ActivityStreams format) that describe what users do on the network.
Pub: Short for publish or publication. It refers to the fact that this is a publish-subscribe (pub-sub) protocol — one user can “follow” another, and receive their published activities.

Put together, ActivityPub is a protocol for publishing and subscribing to activities, which enables decentralized social networking — where different servers can interact and users can follow each other across the Fediverse.

How do I solve…

We have an FAQ section in the docs directory with checklists for the most common problems — for example follow requests stuck on “pending” and comments from the Fediverse not showing up — and a How-To section in the docs directory for configuring specific setups.

Constants

The plugin uses PHP Constants to enable, disable or change its default behaviour. Please use them with caution and only if you know what you are doing.

ACTIVITYPUB_REST_NAMESPACE – Change the default Namespace of the REST endpoint. Default: activitypub/1.0.
ACTIVITYPUB_EXCERPT_LENGTH – Change the length of the Excerpt. Default: 400.
ACTIVITYPUB_MAX_IMAGE_ATTACHMENTS – Change the number of attachments, that should be federated. Default: 4.
ACTIVITYPUB_HASHTAGS_REGEXP – Change the default regex to detect hashtext in a text. Default: (?:(?<=\s)|(?<=<p>)|(?<=<br>)|^)#([A-Za-z0-9_]+)(?:(?=\s|[[:punct:]]|$)).
ACTIVITYPUB_USERNAME_REGEXP – Change the default regex to detect @-replies in a text. Default: (?:([A-Za-z0-9\._-]+)@((?:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.)+[A-Za-z]+)).
ACTIVITYPUB_URL_REGEXP – Change the default regex to detect urls in a text. Default: (www.|http:|https:)+[^\s]+[\w\/].
ACTIVITYPUB_CUSTOM_POST_CONTENT – Change the default template for Activities. Default: <strong>[ap_title]</strong>\n\n[ap_content]\n\n[ap_hashtags]\n\n[ap_shortlink].
ACTIVITYPUB_AUTHORIZED_FETCH – Enable AUTHORIZED_FETCH.
ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_REWRITES – Disable auto generation of mod_rewrite rules. Default: false.
ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_INCOMING_INTERACTIONS – Block incoming replies/comments/likes. Default: false.
ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_OUTGOING_INTERACTIONS – Disable outgoing replies/comments/likes. Default: false.
ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_REMOTE_CACHE – Disable remote media caching (avatars, media, emoji). Default: false. Replaces ACTIVITYPUB_DISABLE_SIDELOADING from 7.9.1.
ACTIVITYPUB_SHARED_INBOX_FEATURE – Enable the shared inbox. Default: false.
ACTIVITYPUB_SEND_VARY_HEADER – Enable to send the Vary: Accept header. Default: false.

Where can you manage your followers?

If you have activated the blog user, you will find the list of his followers in the settings under /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=activitypub&tab=followers.