ActivityPub for WordPress

Major versions are the right moment to fix things properly instead of patching around them. In ActivityPub plugin 9.0.0, unpublishing a federated post sends a real Delete instead of a placeholder text, and federation can be tuned down so it doesn't overwh

The plugin uses the same blurhash property that Mastodon documents as part of its ActivityPub extensions , so your previews work wherever Mastodons do. Everything happens automatically in the background; theres nothing to configure.

Radical Speed Month is over, and today we're releasing the work to the public. For four weeks, we built out the WordPress.com Reader so it can read and write across three networks (Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse), all from one place. The new Social

This post isn't about the ActivityPub plugin. ATmosphere is a separate plugin from the same small team, for the other half of the open social web: the AT Protocol, the open network behind Bluesky. We're posting about it here because the audience overlaps

This post is about work happening on WordPress.com, specifically the Reader, the long-running subscription-and-reading surface that's been part of WordPress.com since 2008. It's a sibling effort to the ActivityPub plugin, not a feature of it. We think it

The Radical Speed Month bet: ship three protocol adapters in four weeks, and prove the Reader can become a universal aggregator. RSS Google Reader API (so any reader app can use WordPress.com as a sync backend), ActivityPub (so Mastodon, Pixelfed, and fri

Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

If 8.0.0 opened the Fediverse up as a two-way street, 8.1.0 helps you see and share what travels down it. A new Fediverse statistics feature leads the release, with a dashboard widget, email reports, and a shareable stats block. Alongside it: a new Activi

One of the best things about the Fediverse is that conversations happen everywhere, across Mastodon, WordPress, Pixelfed, and dozens of other platforms. One of the trickiest things about the Fediverse is finding those conversations in the first place. Has

A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon