Mastodon Migration Blog

2023-10-13 05:32:27

Follow these fifty easy steps to create a WordPress blog and attach it the the Fediverse. Should take you about 30 minutes to one hour, and doesn’t cost anything.

1. Go to wordpress.com in new window
2. Click: Get started
3. Click: Continue with Email
4. Enter email address
5. Click: Continue
6. Click: Choose my domain later
7. Click: Start with Free
8. Click: Continue with Free
9. Click: Skip to dashboard
10. Reduce zoom so you see everything
11. Click: Site Title
12. Click: Pages
13. Click: Homepage
14. Click: Site Title
15. Click: Skip (in Welcome to WordPress! dialog box)
16. Edit the title to: “My Very Own Blog”
17. Edit ‘Site Title’ in top left to: “My Blog”
18. Click: “Save”
19. Click: “Save” again
20. Click: “W” logo (top left)
21. Click; “<” (next to Design)
22. Click: Settings (General)
23. Click: Change (under Site icon)
24. Click: Upload media
25. Find and icon image and Click: Open
26. Click: Continue
27. Click: Done
28. Edit: Site tagline to “This is my very own blog site”
29. Click: Save settings
30. Click: My Home (left menu)
31. Click: Launch your site (under Next steps for your site)
32. Click: “X” (top left of dialog)
33. Click: Settings (left menu)
34. Click: Discussion
35. Click: Enter the fediverse (under Fediverse settings)
36. Click: Copy (next to the address under “Anyone in the fediverse (eg Mastodon)…” )
35. Now go to your Mastodon account in a different window… Click: # Explore
37. Paste the address you copied
38. Add a “@” to the front of the address (IMPORTANT)
39. Press: Enter
40. Click on: “My Blog”
41. Click: Follow
42. Now back to WordPress… Click: Posts
43. Click: Add new post
44. Replace title with: “My First Mastodon Post”
45. Replace text with: “This is the first post that will show up on Mastodon”
46. Click: Publish
47. Click: Publish (again)
48. Click: “X” (top left of dialog box)
49. Now back to Mastodon Click: Refresh icon
50. Yea! Now you can add more posts and edit your blog. The changes will be sent to Mastodon.

Note: Be aware that followers will only see new blog posts published to the Fediverse.

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