#wordpress 2023-06-27

2023-06-27 UTC
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[Serena] Hi hi, coming out from months of inactivity again)
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[Serena] In the past, I post on Wordpress using the Wordpress site and I check the "Syndicate to" checkbox to get my post sent to Twitter/Mastodon etc.
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[Serena] But recently I've been trying to reduce the friction of posting (eg. using Drafts app or Shortcuts app and posting using Micropub).
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[Serena] My question is, when I publish using Micropub, would a webmention be sent to get the post pushed to Mastodon etc?
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[Serena] For reference, this is the Shortcuts I used to post via Micropub: https://cagrimmett.com/development/2023/02/12/ios-shortcut-actions-for-micropub-posting/
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[Serena] As in, is it supposed to? Because right now I post using Micropub and nothing gets sent to Mastodon.
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[snarfed] ^ cc GWG
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GWG Hi, [Serena].
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GWG [Serena]: There's a Syndication log box on the post... what does it say?
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[snarfed] oh [Serena] you probably need to tell your Micropub client to syndicate to Bridgy
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[snarfed] (ie it would add mp-syndicate-to[]=bridgy to its request)
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[Serena] hmm, and now when I try publishing on the Wordpress site and checking the "Mastodon by Bridgy" checkbox, it doesn't push to Mastodon and I see this in the Sydnicate Logs:
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[Serena] ```{
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[Serena] "error": "unauthorized",
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[Serena] "error_description": "No publish user found with that token"
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[Serena] "body": {
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[Serena] },
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[Serena] "code": 401,
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[Serena] "url": ""
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[Serena] }```
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[Serena] I don't know what did to break that...
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GWG [Serena]: Where did you get your mastodon token?
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GWG [snarfed]: Is there something I could do when saved to validate the token?
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[snarfed] GWG not yet, but that's a great feature request, feel free to file it!
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GWG [snarfed]: Token introspection?
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[snarfed] we should also confirm that [Serena] has actually entered a token? I assume the plugin checks for that?
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[snarfed] token introspection sure, sounds like a good feature request
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Loqi yea!
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GWG [snarfed]: It checks for non-empty, yes
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GWG Is there a length?
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[snarfed] nah it'll differ by silo, it's each silo's access token
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[snarfed] GWG do you trim the token for leading/trailing whitespace? the error ^ said the token wasn't found, I wonder if that's the reason
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GWG [snarfed]: I thought I did,. but I'd better check
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GWG This is Micropub... I think the disable only checks in the UI...let me diagnose
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[snarfed] [Serena] could you also check which version of the wordpress plugin you're using? and check that that error is definitely from Mastodon, and not eg Twitter?
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[snarfed] also [Serena] what's your mastodon handle?
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[snarfed] (or web site?)
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