We just released version 4.1.0 of the #ActivityPub Plugin for #WordPresshttps://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

Some handpicked features:

* Custom Preview for “Fediverse” (needs WordPress 6.7)
* Support `comment_previously_approved` setting
* Add title to content if post is a `Note` (cc @davew )
* Fallback to blog-user if specific user is disabled (cc @cdevroe )

Happy federated blogging!

The version on WordPress.com will also be updated soon!

#automattic #wordpressdotcom

@dothewoo.io is now on the #fediverse

https://dothewoo.io/do-the-woo-is-trailbazing-the-fediverse-with-matthias-pfefferle-and-derek-hanson/

This may be the reference implementation of #podcasts in #WordPress blogs and i hope that more podcasts will follow this example.

@BobWP @derekahanson It was fun working with you on that ❤️

And kudos to the @Mastodon team, the audio player is pretty neat!!!

#automattic #wordpressdotcom

Twenty years ago, back when WordPress was just version 1.2, I installed it, immediately ran into problems, and asked for help in the WordPress Support Forums. While I was waiting, I started helping out in the installation forum, and since then, I’ve never stopped contributing to WordPress.

I didn’t have a wide imagination back then, but I had an idea of how things worked, so I learned how to do cool things with WordPress by simply helping and learning alongside people in the forums who had cool ideas but didn’t know how to execute them.

I filed bugs, I wrote patches that were committed to core, I wrote patches that were committed to plugins and themes, I wrote docs, I wrote for a WordPress news blog, I volunteered at WordCamps, I worked directly alongside the WordPress Support Team and became a forum and Slack admin, I’ve been a WordPress Support Team lead twice, and somewhere out there, people are having the time of their lives with WordPress (maybe even making tons of money) because of a sentence or two that I wrote in the forums.

Working at Automattic was something I had always wanted to do. It was a job that would sponsor me to contribute more to WordPress and a job that had a creed I was aligned with. But back then, their job openings were scarce. When I was laid off from my job before Automattic, I spent a year unemployed during an economic downturn (and without unemployment benefits because I was young, foolish, and took the job as a contractor), but I was committed to keeping up the grind. I worked 9 AM to 5 PM in the WordPress Support Forums while also watching the official WordPress job board for any paid gigs that I could do.

Fourteen years ago, a Happiness Engineer job opened, and honestly, the bulk of my résumé was my WordPress Support Forum profile and the rest of my WordPress contributions; contributions that I continue to make to this day.

WordPress taught me how to help others, how to build and manage sites, and how to be a part of a functioning open source community. WordPress also introduced me to some of my best friends, quite possibly saved my life, and kept me from being homeless.

If you want to get involved too, you can start contributing to WordPress anytime!

It’s been a fun and enlightening twenty years, and I’m looking forward to the next twenty years!

https://macmanx.com/2024/10/04/my-wordpress-journey-20-years/

#automattic #openSource #WordPress

I’ve been through this employment ultimatum thing more than once, and it sucks—especially when it’s rooted in controversies that you had no control over.

Having to demonstrate your vote of confidence by choosing to resign or not (on someone else’s abbreviated timetable) puts everyone in a tough position. Alignment and employment are not necessarily the same thing.

https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/

@jonasdowney Feel very sorry for the turmoil going on inside #Automattic right now and hope that things stabalize quickly. Feel for my friends there and wish that company - which has been a good actor for the open social web - sorts things out quickly.
Are there any #Beeper users out here? https://beeper.com the universal chat app by #Automattic, NOT real beepers... I realize the terrible timing of my question, given what's happening in the news. Sorry about that!

I'm attempting to test #Matrix bridges with various apps, which are technically made easy by Beeper.com but had some problems (see screenshot).

Update:

Some new messages do come in with no problem... excited to test Matrix-related things for the next issue of my newsletter

Dominik Liss hat mich zu seinem Podcast eingeladen und wir haben ein bisschen über folgende Themen geplaudert:

* Was ist das #OpenWeb?
* Das verborgene Potential von #WordPress
* Was ist die Mission von #WordPress?
* Hat #WordPress den Social Media Moment verschlafen?
* Die Zusammenarbeit mit #Automattic
* Das #ActivityPub Plugin
* Challenges und Potentiale vom #Fediverse
* Eigene Social Media Plattform für #WordPress?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JNerFoGlc4