At the State of the Word address this week, Matt Mullenweg was asked about support for the plugin, and he commented that less than 5,000 sites had installed it. So he wasn't sure how interested people are in it.
So... if you have a WP site, let's start installing that plugin and making more sites available via ActivityPub! 😀
@warrows He was talking about installations of the plugin in WordPress installs. When you install from the central plugin repository, they gather a count of how many sites have installed a plugin. And that number shows on the plugin page, and can help give people considering a plugin a sense of how actively the plugin is used.
@danyork The documentation for this plugin is not great. Out of the box, this wasn't a good fit for my site and reading the docs to customize it, didn't help me at all. So I uninstalled it.
Not saying my issues aren't addressable but well written documentation goes a long way.
@petergarner@StephenRees Yes, on WordPress.com they have already installed the functionality (back in October). So all you need to do is toggle that button.
@danyork You can activate the plugin only if you have a business plan if you host with Wordpress. So much for Matt Mullenweg comments. He seems to be just a Zuckerberg in hiding.
@lispi314@73ms True... although at the moment the whole thing requires some extra work.
After you enable it, initially it's highly unlikely that anyone will be able to find your new ActivityPub-enabled site on the Fediverse.
You'll probably need to manually follow your site from your Mastodon account. That will then bring the ActivityPub ID into your Mastodon instance... and then from there others may find it.
@danyork There is a problem for Wordpress blogs hosted on other hosting sites that the developers of the plugin are not in a position to address: many such hosting sites, including Dreamhost who host my blog, have modified html servers that break the activitypub plugin. It is often difficult to find the necessary workarounds, and the hosting companies have not been willing to work with the plugin developers.
@danyork I was really excited to use this but after installing and much debugging finally realized it won't work for my self-hosted #Wordpress site because the hosting company's firewall blocks some of the necessary requests.
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