I joined the Indieweb community in 2014, and I feel after 5 years of work, things started to come together. We have a robust collection of plugins and opportunities. But over the coming months, there are some long term goals that need to be achieved.
- The WordPress Block Editor – It is, whether I like it or not, the editor for WordPress is now Gutenberg. The Indieweb plugins currently avoid that reality. I made an effort to make sure that several of them would work with Gutenberg, despite not being Gutenberg ready, but I will have to bite the bullet and learn how to think in blocks.
- The Webmention and Semantic Linkbacks plugin merge – This has been a slow process. It is holding up or delaying further iteration on the feature set…including things such as improved display.
- IndieAuth – Improving and hardening the security of the IndieAuth plugin to prepare for AutoAuth and private post support. This requires some additional refactoring.
- Indieweb Site Health Checker in the Indieweb Plugin – This would parse a site and check its MF2, similar to indiewebify.me
There are obviously other things I’d like to do…improve Micropub for one. but the above are the ones that I think would push things forward the most.
Thanks for all your work, David.
The WordPress IndieWeb ecosystem has enabled me to be a fully-fledged citizen of the IndieWeb. Everyone who has gotten it to where it is now is awesome! ?
To all those at #WCUS inspired by @t’s take on how we #TakeBackTheWeb check out this post by @dshankse https://david.shanske.com/2019/11/02/indieweb-thoughts-post-state-of-the-word/ the #IndieWeb #WordPress community always looking for contributors.
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Where would you best be able to accept some help for these? If you’re accepting contributors I think that I could best help with the plugin merge and the site health check plugin.
The plugin merge is complicated as it requires data migration and some people have rather large comment tables. Each has a GitHub repo though. Site health is in the IndieWeb plugin repo, other in Webmention
Hey, You linked the wrong Matt. The WordPress Matt is https://ma.tt
Typo on my part, actually. Didn’t even realize it. Thanks.