More on “Activitypub” and “Friends” plugin for WordPress

Let’s check what ‘Activitypub’ and ‘Friends’ plugins for WordPress do.

After installing them, some widgets appear in the ‘add block’ menu:

“Fediverse Followers” and the “Follow me on the Fediverse” are a part of “Activitypub” plugin. Thanx for correction, Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle@notiz.blog / @pfefferle@mastodon.social)

Let’s try it out:

Example of ‘Fediverse followers’ widget. It shows all fediverse followers of this blog. Nice!

Widget output:

Example of ‘Follow me on fediverse’ widget

Example of ‘Friend posts’ widget

Block ‘Friend posts’ is a part of ‘Friends’ plugin and it outputs this:

• @kaybee335 @tomi Thanks! It looks like RSS works better than WP/AP reply federation. Have to check it where they're stuck 🙂 Dec 18
• @tomi Psst. Your RSS feed is working fine! 😉 Dec 17
• @tomi Najs. Webcomics vill jag följa! Mon 16, 14:09
• @tomi I can understand why the decision here was to request account write access in order to follow accounts, but there's no way I'd trust a random website with that access, sorry Mon 16, 14:08
• In case you noticed that the Friends Plugin was pulled from the WordPress.org plugin directory, it’s back again. Thanks for all the messages! Dec 7