WordPress Plugin for IndieAuth
Related IndieWeb Wiki Pages
Micropub Apps Mentioned in the episode
PESOS – Post Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site
POSSE – Post on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
An Indieweb Podcast- Episode 2: IndieAuth
In this third episode of An IndieWeb Podcast, I invited Chris to discuss my project of the last few months, the IndieAuth endpoints for WordPress, and some related Micropub work I’ve been doing, and some other ideas, and try to teach him about IndieAuth, so far as I understand it.
An Indieweb Podcast- Episode 2: IndieAuth by David Shanske from David Shanske
Interesting chat about some of the bits and pieces I’m using to run this site.
An Indieweb Podcast- Episode 2: IndieAuth
I love the podcast, I didn’t know that it was needed that badly but just listening to people talking about IndieWeb technology and questions I realize that it’s so much easier for me to listen to long ass podcasts for hours than read pages and pages of text. And also creating it is much easier than writing a structured long blogpost, especially when it’s not a monolog like most of the blog posts are but a dialog between two or more people who are knowageble in the topic.
I also have found some bugs with it:
only episode 0 in the RSS feed has the enclosure tag, so I can’t download episode 1 nor 2 in my podcast catcher
on https://david.shanske.com/series/indieweb-podcast/ there are no headlines
It’s really difficult to find the RSS link for the podcast, I expected a button to subscribe, but you need to find the podcast category and then if your browser offers it click on the RSS UI to open it and then sending he url to your phone to subscribe. It would be nice with a button so I can subscribe on my phone
I must admit, I am still getting my head around all the Micropub stuff. This discussion involving David Shanske and Chris Aldrich was helpful. Although I still have questions, it helped with making a bit more sense of Aaron Parecki’s IndieWeb Reader.
Also on:
I’ve seen a fair amount of discussion about using WordPress in a IndieWeb fashion…Much of the below will probably sound like gibberish if you are unfamiliar with IndieWeb. I set up my self-hosted WordPress site in January and for my own benefit I thought I’d document the Plugins I’m using. I’d also be interested in feedback on how I could improve it. I really had no idea what I was doing when I set this up.
Plugins I Set up Specifically for IndieWeb
Activate Update Services
This plugin carries a warning that it has not been tested with the past 3 major WordPress versions. My blog is hosted on my multisite WordPress installation which for some unknown reason removes the ability to configure a host to ping. See this for reference.
Disable Emojis
Probably bad form to start the list with one that is arguably not IndieWeb oriented but totally required. In spite of the name what this plugin does is enable real emojis in WordPress posts (otherwise WordPress replaces emojis with crappy images that look like they were created 20 years ago or so)
IndieAuth
I installed this so I have the option of posting from Quill. It turns my WordPress into an IndieAuth authorization endpoint. I recently listened to a podcast from David Shanske about this.
IndieWeb
Helps you establish your IndieWeb identity by extending the user profile to provide rel-me and h-card fields and optionally adding widgets to display these. It also links to a number of other useful plugins (you can choose if you want any of those or not).
JetPack
Another plugin that is arguably not IndieWeb related but properly processing markdown syntax is mandatory IMO and this does it well. It has a ton of other features that I don’t use.
Micropub
I installed this to enable Quill. It implements the open API standard that is used to create posts on one’s own domain using third-party clients.
Semantic-Linkbacks
Does just what the name implies: it provides semantic linkbacks for WebMentions, Trackbacks and Pingbacks
WebMention
Another plugin that does what it says adding WebMention support to WordPress
WebSub/PubSubHubbub
An implementation of the WebHub spec for letting the world know when my blog is updated.
XML-RPC OC (I got directly from Colin Walker)
Without this plugin posts sent to my blog via XML-RPC can’t be commented on. The OC stands for “Open Comments” which is exactly what it does
Other Plugins I’m Using
Aksimet Anti-spam (pretty standard)
Broken Link Checker
I installed this when I imported posts from one of my old WordPress sites and wanted to try to clean up or remove broken links in those posts…there were a lot. I’ve left it running. I may disable it soon because it generates false alerts.
Inline Footnotes
I use this to include asides, snide comments, or additional detail on longer blog posts without cluttering up the main flow of the text. There are a couple in this post.
Ultimate Category Excluder
This plugin allows me to identify certain post types that should not be published outside my blog. E.g. a post with an excluded category won’t be sent to Micro.blog or Twitter. For my longer posts…like this one I prefer to hand-craft and post a separate short/micro-blog entry letting folks know.
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore (free version)
Backs up my WordPress files to the Cloud
Wordfence Security (free version)
Provides a level of protection for the site as well as notifications of suspicious activity.
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