Posting from Friendica to Wordpress!!
I just tested it and posting from Friendica to my Wordpress blog seems to work now. This is amazing and it is yet another set of amazing features Friendica has. My blog is my own personal place. My home. My thing.
But Friendica has become like a backyard with neighbors. A place where I can keep in touch with others, with the news, and so forth. But also a place where I can share my thoughts in seconds. No need to visit my blog, log in, and create a new post. It is a lot easier on Friendica. Coupled with the fact that I can add inline media on Friendica, and it makes it easy to create simple posts. I can have some basic text editing such as: bold, italic, underline. And I can even add markdown
Links are of course a thing, and quotes are handy:
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Our Friendica instance has custom designed themes so that it makes it look more modern and easy to navigate. I am using the Dark Purple one:
Ok. So how do you post form Friendica to Wordpress?
Go to your Friendica Settings - Social Networks
Then add your Wordpress URL and the
/xmlrpc.php after it. Add your user and password and click save.Then, when you make a post, click the Permissions tab and select to post on Wordpress:
You can even select to auto-post on Wordpress by default via the same Friendica Settings - Social Networks setting.
In any case this is so awesome! Thanks to the Friendica developers. I keep on Saying Friendica is super underrated. #tromlive
EDIT: testing editing to see if that is pushed to my blog post too. I suppose not...but that's ok.
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in reply to Tio • • •I have a few questions, mainly due to my completely unfamiliarity with the Wordpress plugin :
- shouldn't the comments to this post appear as comments on the blog?
- shouldn't there be a link on the blog to interact from the fediverse?
- shouldn't there be a sign on the blog post that it is actually a friendica post? (like the arrow in the corner that we have on Friendica)
Tio
in reply to Liwott • •As far as I can see this Wordpress Friendica addon simply uses the POST api on Wordpress. Meaning, it simply tells wordpress: submit this blog post. And then that's it....So you don't need any plugin for wordpress for this to work.
But if you install the Activitypub Wordpress plugin it works the other way around: posts made on wordpress cna go to your friendica if you enable native reshares, and any comment on friendica for that post, will go to the wordpress post. Any edit to the wordpress post will update the Friendica post too. So works far better the other way around from what I can tell...
Liwott
in reply to Tio • • •2 different operations, I see !
Are they compatible with each other ? Of course the AP plugin won't magically notice that the post originates from Friendica, but is there anything that prevent you from doing the following ?
Tio
in reply to Liwott • •Hm so you mean to make a post on Friendica that's only visible for you, then this post goes to Wordpress. Now you setup native reshares from Wordpress to Friendica, and the same post comes back to your profile. But this time the post is more connected since any comment you get on the post, it goes to your WP too, and any edit you make to the AP post, will edit your Friendica post too. Tho idk if the latter is true.
Seems a bit too complicated to me and it means you make double posts....
Did I get you right?
Liwott
in reply to Tio • • •But AFAIU you will not be able to edit the WP post from Friendica, as from Friendica the AP post will only be a reshare.
That is a bit annoying indeed, but it will only appear as such to you.
A workaround may be to create a separate Friendica account for WP posting, and designate your main account as a delegate. Then the posting account can have "private to itself + WP" as default permission, so that simplifies the procedure after the initial setup. So all you need to do to post to WP is to post in the name of the posting account.
Note that I have never used a subaccount myself so I do not know how easy the latter is in practice.
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in reply to Liwott • •If the WP post gets reshared on Friendica via ActivityPub, then if you edit the WP post, Friendica will fetch the newly updated one. IDK if this works with native reshares or just re-shares. Am a bit confused haha.
And I think if you go for 2 friendica accounts just to post on WP + Friendica....it is not worth the trouble. I'd might as well post on WP directly :D .
Liwott
in reply to Tio • • •TBH I am not that less confused. But I thought you meant you could edit directly on Friendica, which apparently you can't as you tried with your OP.
I said "delegate" but I think I meant "parent". From the wiki :
So I thought that you don't even need to identify twice but that you could just press a button to publish as the WP-posting account. I may misunderstand that, once again I have never done it myself.
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in reply to Tio • • •@Tio @Liwott There are two kinds of issues affecting the activitypub plugin for WordPress:
1) friendica is already able to follow a wordpress blog, through the rss / atom protocol and when you try to follow a federated Wordpress, frendica relentlessly follows it as an RSS feed ... I tried to figure out how to get around the problem, but it seems that friendica deems RSS "more native" than pub activity for WordPress blogs. And therefore it tends to give priority to RSS
2) The second problem concerns some technical limitations of the activitypub plugin for WordPress, among which the most worrying one is the fact of not managing the privacy of messages: in practice, if someone sends a private message to the blog user, this message becomes public .in addition, the activitypub plug-in for Wordpress cannot manage the deletion of messages, so if I send a message by mistake then I can no longer delete it
I talked about it here: informapirata.it/2022/03/27/qu… -this-post /
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • •1) You have to follow users not the entire website. For example m website tiotrom.com/ - if you want to follow it natively via ActivityPub you have to follow a user from it like me
tio@www.tiotrom.com- that's how it works from my understanding. It is like you cannot follow my entire Freindica instance at social.trom.tf but you can follow me at tio@social.trom.tf.2) It is true there are limitations and concerns with the activitypub plugin. But it is still new. Report issues here github.com/pfefferle/wordpress…
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in reply to Tio • • •@Tio @Poliverso notizie dal fediverso @Liwott The first solution is indeed reasonable and I had not thought about it. Unfortunately it will not allow the new authors to be followed immediately, but it is a good compromise.
As for the reports, the problem of deleting messages and the privacy of DMs has been reported several times, but development has been stuck for a couple of years
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in reply to Tio • • •@Tio @Poliverso notizie dal fediverso @Liwott Speaking of interaction between #Friendica and other federated publishing platforms, I take this opportunity to point out the very happy integration between Friendica and #Lemmy. In fact, from Friendica it is not only possible to follow Lemmy conversations, but it is even possible to publish a new post! In practice, by mentioning the community name (=! + Community name + @ + domain) and writing the title text in the subject field, you can publish new posts that will be followed and commented on by anyone who follows that community.
Below is an example:
poliverso.org/objects/0477a01e…
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Liwott
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Btw I've been having trouble recently with that. My posts and comments don't go through to lemmy unless I search for them manually.
I just tried posting and commenting in feddit.it's test community and have the same problem.
Both lemmy.ml and feddit.it are supposed to federate with nerdica.net
Are you still regularly posting and commenting to Lemmy from Friendica?
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in reply to Liwott • • •@Liwott ho appena fatto un po' di prove da due account di tipo diverso e l'unico test fallito ha riguardato l'invio di un post recante un'immagine
feddit.it/c/test
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in reply to Liwott • • •@Liwott ho provato a chiedere aiuto al vostro forum
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