#wordpress 2025-03-12
2025-03-12 UTC
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Kolev Thanks for the tips, y'all. I'm gonna close this chat to keep my list clean. See ya later.
# Kolev Hey, is WordPress easy to update?
# Kolev Thank God.
# Kolev Even when you do the zip archive install?
# Kolev How is it done?
# Kolev My friend is a security auditor and said to be very careful to keep WordPress up to date.
# Kolev Oh, cool!
# Xander Kolev: I recommend using activitypub for Mastodon, then bridgy fed for bluesky! If you set a featured image for every post as well, they should also federate to Pixelfed. It also makes a Lemmy community as well where your blog posts are kept. Here is my website as an example: https://fusil.uk
# Xander And federation in action:
# Xander Unfortunately, it's far from perfect, posts seem to decide whether or not to federate themselves....
# Kolev > Kolev: I recommend using activitypub for Mastodon, then bridgy fed for bluesky! If you set a featured image for every post as well, they should also federate to Pixelfed. It also makes a Lemmy community as well where your blog posts are kept. Here is my website as an example: https://fusil.uk
# Kolev I already have a Mastodon account and would like my notes to go there.
# Kolev Cool.
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# Kolev People are telling me to avoid WP because of the drama.
# Kolev I'd rather use WP because that's what a lot of InieWeb features are tested on.
# Kolev GWG, I just care about IndieWeb stuff.
# Kolev GWG, your site is CP or WP?
# Kolev GWG, OK. Maybe ClassicPress will be OK.
# Kolev GWG, thank you.
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# Xander The drama doesn't affect me at all, I'm selfhosting
# Xander I would avoid wordpress' official hosting, though
# Xander And wp-engine
# Xander The drama seems to be that Matt is upset at WP-Engine because he perceives them as using the wordpress trademark, making money from wordpress but not actually contributing anything to the project. I don't think he cares if you're self hosting or with a different host that contributes to the project ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
# Xander I think though it is upsetting wordpress developers, so that could give reason to jump ship
# [Sophie_Young] I'm looking for an open source server software that can
# [Sophie_Young] serve a static html page
# [Sophie_Young] serve a microblog timeline to which i can easily post from a mobile phone
# [Sophie_Young] speak to AT and ActivityPub servers. (I'm willing to use BridgyFed)
# [Sophie_Young] POSSE to Instagram, Twitter
# [Sophie_Young] will Wordpress work for me? I'm concerned about using plugins that may discontinue support in the future.
# Xander For server software, you'll be looking at Apache or Nginx. Wordpress can be hosted on either. It can work with AP with a plugin and POSSE to bluesky or use bridgyfed. No clue about Instagram or Twitter as some of their APIs have been locked down. You can also make a theme to present posts as a microblog if you'd like. I don't activitypub for wordpress will be discontinued anytime soon
# Xander Also, a static HTML page can work alongside a wordpress installation just fine in my experience (I use apache)
# Xander [Sophie_Young]:
# Xander By AP by the way, I meant activitypub ^
# Xander I've tried to get my site to work with Mastodon, Lemmy and Pixelfed. It can be a bit patchy, but also from the way I've done things
# [Sophie_Young] sickkkkkk
# [Sophie_Young] thank you! It'll be a while before I get access to the machine I'm gonna host this on, but I'll let y'all know if I run into any big issues. I'm sure I'll have plenty more questions to ask
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# Kolev Xander, I'm self-hosting regardless, whether I use WP or CP.
# Xander Alright! You shouldn't be bothered by the drama
# Xander [Sophie_Young]: Feel free to! I'm no expert and new to this myself actually, but happy to help! IIRC, installing wordpress was as easy as sudo-apt install apache2 and then downloading a thing and unpack in it in the web directory. I expect Nginx will give a similar experience. There may be a step in there which requires enabling php, but there are plenty of useful guides on how to do it, I was s
# Xander urprised at how straightforward installing wordpress was, actually
# Xander I was surprised at how straightforward installing wordpress was, actually* (did my message get truncated there?)
# Xander I was saying it's pretty easy installing apache2 or nginx. With apache2, I just had to unzip wordpress and paste it in. You may need to do an extra step to get php to work. It's very straightforward though and there are a lot of guides
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# _bever Good evening
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