#wordpress 2018-03-20

2018-03-20 UTC
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[miklb] GWG would the bridgy plugin be a good place to add the option to auto syndicate likes and reposts posted via micropub? i.e. I like a GitHub repo via micropub and that automatically gets syndicated to GitHub as a star.
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GWG Not sure. Is Bridgy doing it?
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Loqi GWG: [jeremycherfas] left you a message 21 hours, 58 minutes ago: Looking forward to listening to your podcast with [chrisaldrich]
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[miklb] well, we have syndication targets for Bridgy Twitter and GitHub for replies, but there’s no way to automatically syndicate likes and replies
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[miklb] so an option to syndicate those automatically is what I want to add. Either as PR to bridgy publish or a new stand alone plugin, where ever it is best done.
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GWG Are they for replies? If you click it, and it is a like, won't that translate to a star?
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[miklb] micropub clients do not have the option to syndicate likes or reposts
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[miklb] So if I’m using Indigenous or Omnibear and I’m on a repo and want to POSSE the like/star there is no current way to do that in one click so to speak.
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GWG So, you want to register additional syndication targets then.
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[miklb] no, I want to use the existing syndication targets and say “if I’m liking or reposting a Twitter URL, syndicate that back to Twitter using bridgy.” Likewise for a a GitHub url for a like.
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GWG Hmm...
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[miklb] does that make sense?
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GWG But, what confuses me is, if your client sends the like property, and you post, shouldn't Bridgy parse that correctly?
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[miklb] not sure I follow. I can manually create a like and syndicate that to GitHub. But if I like a GitHub url with a micropub client, there is no option to syndicate it to. Are you saying the bridgy plugin does what I want already?
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GWG If you post a like of a Github repo URL, and syndicate to Github using Bridgy, then it should work already.
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[miklb] yes, if I do that manually in WordPress.
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GWG It isn't happening if you check the syndication target in Quill or such?
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[miklb] But if I use a micropub client to like a repo URL, it doesn’t get POSSEd to bridgy
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[miklb] likes and reposts don’t have an option to check syndication targets. Not in Quill, not in Indigenous
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[miklb] see recent discussion in #dev
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GWG Oh....
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GWG That's what I'm missing
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GWG I've never tried that
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[miklb] cool
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[miklb] so my goal is to do something similar to aaronpk and automate that so that twitter URL for likes/reposts or GitHub urls for likes get sent to bridgy
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GWG https://aaronparecki.com/articles#post-id-36458
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Loqi [Aaron Parecki] Automatically POSSEing Likes and Reposts
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GWG You mean this...
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[miklb] yes
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GWG So, that could be in the Bridgy plugin if Bridgy is the POSSE medium
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[miklb] cool. I was thinking that might be easier anyway
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GWG It would need to be a setting.
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GWG I finally think I get what you are asking.
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[miklb] yes, I’d assume a per silo setting
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[pfefferle] hey hey
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[miklb] morning
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Loqi good morning
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[pfefferle] hey [miklb] long time no… chatting 🙂
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[miklb] indeed. how are things?
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[pfefferle] so far so good…
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[pfefferle] the day is still too short
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[Vanessa] Got the basics up & running. Site with webmentions, semantic linkbacks & post kinds plugins enabled. RSS playing nicely with micro.blog thanks to a function provided by Colin Walker which strips out the title WordPress adds to status posts. Well it seems to with the theme I'm using anyway. Baby steps completed, I think.
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[chrisaldrich] [Vanessa]++
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[chrisaldrich] What's next?
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Loqi vanessa has 2 karma
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[Vanessa] Ha ha. I don't actually know. I need to finish writing up my "journey". It might help some other non-techy person, who knows. I suspect next steps might involve a knowledge of web design, php & other stuff about which I know nowt! I'm open to suggestions though...
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[chrisaldrich] [Vanessa] using things a bit might identify something interesting to do next. Posting via micropub might be interesting to you too.
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[chrisaldrich] What is micropub?
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Loqi Micropub is an open API standard (W3C Recommendation) that is used to create, update, and delete posts on one's own domain using third-party clients, and supersedes both MetaWeblog and AtomPub https://indieweb.org/Micropub
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[Vanessa] [chrisaldrich] Ah ok, sounds like something worth investigating. Putting it on the list. Otherwise, yes, I need to read some more. Tonight I shall just feel a little bit content though - not that I would have got this far without a lot of help from people here and on micro.blog (& 10 Centuries, where this whole conversation started for me).
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[chrisaldrich] Maybe figuring out how to syndicate to 10C could be useful too?
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[chrisaldrich] What is POSSE?
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Loqi POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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[Vanessa] Could be. I have my main blogs over there and have done for some time. They rss to my micro-blog account, maybe I should pull them to my new one too. Mind you, Jason, who runs it, is working on a new version at the moment and I think he’s been listening to Jeremy and me so is planning to be more Indieweb compatible. His principles align very much with Indieweb, but he has retained tight control over his blog platform. Fair enough, heâ
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[Vanessa] I wanted to feed my social posts from there to micro.blog but came up against the rss simply stating a post number + link, so gave up.
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chrisaldrich Vanessa, it's certainly more interesting/valuable when you have direct control over your own platform to be able to make it do what you'd like.
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chrisaldrich I was on 10C for a while, but gave up on it for similar reasons.
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