#wordpress 2022-05-09
2022-05-09 UTC
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[Chris_Lott] How do I (or is there a way?) to post a reply to a Toot from WordPress? I tried posting using a trackback to the original toot, but that didn’t connect my response to the original post.
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[chrisaldrich] There may be one or two experimental Mastodon instances that send/receive webmentions, but most don't. Thus you really need a plugin that handles the Mastodon API or to use Bridgy to send your post to Mastodon via webmention. (Am I missing any options or other methods?)
# [chrisaldrich] There's also manual syndication too I suppose.
# [Chris_Lott] I’m using Bridgy, but I’m unclear how to make what I post a response to a particular toot rather than just a mention of the person who posted it?
# [snarfed] [Chris_Lott] https://brid.gy/about#reply (...with apologies, the language there is twitter specific, but you do the same thing for Mastodon. I'll update the docs!)
# [Chris_Lott] Ah, I see. Thank you. Sorry for all the newbie questions!
# [chrisaldrich] We're here all day for newbie questions. Keep them coming.
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# [Chris_Lott] As you might have seen, I did get the reply to work! And now that I realize `<a></a>` links get stripped in the Mastodon post anyway, figuring out how to get the `<a class="u-in-reply-to"...` affixed isn’t a problem (I couldn’t figure out how to make an empty link work in the WP editor).