#bridgy 2018-03-17
2018-03-17 UTC
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cbfishes hey all! having some trouble understanding Bridgy... I am running a WP site with the Bridgy plugin, and if I post something and check "syndicate with Bridgy", the post is shared on social media and the syndication links show up under the post. BUT if I share a post manually on Twitter for instance, Bridgy can't seem to find the original ("no webmention targets")
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# [cb] (this is cbfishes) [snarfed] I'd need to add the syndication link manually to the post in wordpress? would the syndication link be the full URL to the twitter post, or something else? (sorry I'm new!)
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# [dshanske] Try adding the Syndication Links plugin
# [dshanske] It adds so you don't have to
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[chrisaldrich] [cb] you can add it manually with markup and that will work too, but GWGs suggestion is easier.
# [cb] I have the Syndication Links plugin installed. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how this is all supposed to work
# [chrisaldrich] And yes you'd want the full permalink
# [chrisaldrich] If you've already got the plugin, it has a meta box in the admin UI for putting the link
# [cb] that makes sense. I think maybe I was confused; I thought the purpose of Bridgy was to go out to social media sites and find occurrences of links to my posts "in the wild," then send webmentions back to my site so they show up with my post
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# [cb] but if one needs to manually add these occurrences, then it's not very automatic... what about random folks I don't know who might share things? I may not know their shares exist, so I wouldn't be able to input the URLs into the Syndication Links text fields
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# chrisaldrich that's one of it's purposes.
# chrisaldrich Bridgy matches the permalink of your original post and the copy in social media to get likes and replies.
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# chrisaldrich It will watch for other occurences of your original's permalink and try to catch those as well so you'll get those shares.
# chrisaldrich the first one makes it a lot easier for bridgy to find your stuff as the second is looking at a lot more data to find the needles in the haystack.
# chrisaldrich The brid.gy faq page will give you a lot more detail about what it does and how in a pretty straightforward fashion: https://brid.gy/about
# [cb] thanks for your help.. I've been reading that page over and over again and I think I'm missing something
# [cb] I've got to run but I'll keep trying and share my results!
# [cb] btw [chrisaldrich] I love your blog, so much fantastic information!! thanks for putting it out there
# chrisaldrich cb try the main #indieweb channel where you'll likely find more help than this much quieter room...
# chrisaldrich There's also a #wordpress specific channel as well.
# [cb] Oh! OK will do, thanks
# chrisaldrich cb, most welcome. Catch you later.
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