if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works.

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

if you have issues with the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress or curious about how it works. I am happy to help :)

https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/25/join-us-for-office-hours-dec-1-5/

#supportrotation

[venite@mastodon.nl]

@pfefferle hi! I’ve installed the plugin on my site nescia.nl/anna, which is a sub-blog using Wordpress multisite. It has created @anna but doesn’t seem to post anything. (There is a subsite “anna” and a user “anna” which posts most but not all blogs on the site.) Are there things I need to configure in the plugin?

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@venite @anna that is, because WordPress does not support subfolder blogs out of the box.

I hope this helps: https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/blob/trunk/docs/how-to/wordpress-in-a-subdir.md

[venite@mastodon.nl]

@pfefferle I saw that, but isn’t the multisite thing native wordpress? That is, nescia.nl is a Wordpress site itself and /anna is one of multiple subsites. Won’t I break those?

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@venite this is mainly a specification issue/requirement. WebFinger (Mastodon uses that for @username@domain.tld identifiers) has to run in the domain root. So if you map this root WebFinger handler to one of the subfolder blogs, this will be the only one that is possible to federate. This is why we do not have a default handling for that. Happy to explain it in more detail (not that easy with only 500 chars 😉):

https://meet.google.com/mdb-bkdw-ypz

[elettrona@poliversity.it]

@pfefferle nice to have talked to you directly.

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@elettrona same 🙂

[arnan@mas.to]

@pfefferle yes… stop people from posting entire 6 page articles on here. It ruins the timelines and makes everything unreadable! 😵‍💫

[pfefferle@mastodon.social]

@arnan do you have an example? the default is excerpt and title.