#webmention

Open Mentions is a site where you can place links to blog posts and social media blurps by mentioning the page you want to appear on. It is powered by Web Mention. This means you can reply to people using your own blog, Tumblr, Mastodon, or whatever. (Not Twitter though, as they now charge for API access).

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All the active Indieweb sites I have found so far [June 2022]

As I said a month ago, it is nice to actually find some (active) Webmention-using sites. I have been maintaining a list. This is that list. It is one thing to have set up Webmention for your site (as I have) but quite another to then find someone to mention. This is why I have been keeping a list of all the Webmention enable sites I find. This is that list.All the (active) sites using Webmention…

All the (active) sites using Webmention that I find so far [May 2022]

It is one thing to have set up Webmention for your site (as I have) but quite another to then find someone to mention. This is why I have been keeping a list of all the Webmention enable sites I find. This is that list. Notes This is a list of everywhere I could find that you can Webmention. At least those that are active anyway. By active, in this case, I mean updated in some way this year. I…

Twitter is not exactly friendly for Webmentions

I recently carried out an experiment with Twitter and OpenMentions.com. It was pretty simple. I mentioned OpenMention in a tweet and then pinged the relevant page. https://twitter.com/lordmatt/status/1521864591881478145 At first look, the problem is not obvious. There is the link, right there. Right? Wrong. The link has been converted to a Twitter link tracker – https://t.co/N2cjzSGHDM –…

How to send a Webmention in comments?

I’ve had Webmentions enabled on this site for some time now. Sending a Webmention is pretty straightforward thanks to plugins like Webmention for WordPress and Semantic-Linkbacks. The question is how to send Webmentions in comments when someone replies to one of my posts? 🤔

I reached out to Chris Aldrich on Twitter, and he pointed me to a few resources in response. I did some testing between…

The inimitable David Shanske released the 4.2.0 version of the Syndication Links plugin for WordPress this evening.

In addition to some other useful upgrades and bug fixes, the big new feature this release adds is excellent syndication support for Micro.blog.

While many people use RSS feeds, JSONfeed, or other plugin methods for syndicating their WordPress website’s content to Micro.blog, this plugin now provides for a per-post decision about exactly what content to send to Micro.blog. It also naturally provides a syndication link from your site back to the Micro.blog post. To my knowledge no other method provides this  syndication link functionality.

As I suspect many may already be aware, if your site supports Webmention (typically done with the Webmention and Semantic-linkbacks plugins), then Micro.blog will notify your site with replies and comments to your post as they appear on Micro.blog. This provides one the ability to do two-way communication between the two platforms.

Set up and configuration for Micro.Blog syndication

If you don’t already have it, install the plugin and activate it, otherwise update it within your site’s administrative interface.

Add your Micro.blog account username to your user profile on your WordPress site. This is typically found at /wp-admin/profile.php. In my case I simply added c to the field labeled Micro.blog username.

Enter your Micro.blog username (not the full URL) in the appropriate field and save your profile.

Adjust your WordPress Syndication Links settings page (typically found at /wp-admin/admin.php?page=syndication_links) to include Micro.blog by using the appropriate checkbox. Be sure to save the setting.

I obviously have a lot of syndication targets. Micro.blog is always one of them. If you’re also using Micropub clients like Quill that support the feature, you can choose Micro.blog as a syndication target in those interfaces.

Remove, if necessary, any of the RSS, JSON, or other syndication feeds from your Micro.blog account so you’re not accidentally duplicating the syndication.

Add the JSONfeed URL from the bottom of the Syndication Links plugin settings page into your list of feeds at https://micro.blog/account/feeds.

Create a post, select Micro.blog as an endpoint in the relevant meta-box, and publish your post.

Once published, your post will ping Micro.blog’s server to indicate the new content which will then be displayed in your timeline. The Syndication Links plugin will then find the permalink URL of your post on Micro.blog and display it on your post (as per your settings) along with any other syndicated copies. This notification process is roughly real time, but may take a minute or two for your post to display and the syndication link to appear on your site based on the processing times on the relevant servers.

Here’s an example of what Syndication Links looks like on a post recently syndicated to Micro.blog. This example was syndicated to both Micro.blog and Twitter.

As an added bonus, Syndication Links plugin will also find the syndication links from Micro.blog in your current feed and add those to your original posts.