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  • Release of our WordPress plugin on WordPress.org – not yet

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    André Menrath

    Our plugin submission to WordPress.org has just been rejected by the reviewers because they are concerned about trademark infringement by starting the plugin slug with “activitypub”. The current name is ActivityPub Event Bridge and therefore the slug is activitypub-event-bridge. They suggest to rename it to Event Bridge for ActivityPub and adjust the slug to event-bridge-activitypub. […]

  • Fediverse Enhancement Proposal in Progress

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    André Menrath

    An initial draft for the FEP A common approach to using the Event object type has been published. https://codeberg.org/linos/fep/src/branch/fep-8a8e/fep/8a8e/fep-8a8e.md The pull request is still marked as work-in-progress. Firstly, we would like to have a discussion about it with the community, which you are invited to join on SocialHub.

  • Event Organizers’ Needs for Publishing to the Fediverse via WordPress

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    André Menrath

    As part of the development of our WordPress Event Bridge plugin, which improves the integration between the WordPress ActivityPub plugin and several popular event plugins, we have started the first round of evaluation with a number of event organizers. This first phase has mainly involved face-to-face meetings with smaller organizers, while not installing anything on […]

  • Testing WordPress plugins using Forgejo Actions

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    André Menrath

    Preface: Almost all public WordPress plugin development takes place on GitHub. We also collaborate on GitHub. However, we want to use and promote free alternatives for our own project. We currently host our own forgejo instance, but have been thinking about moving our repositories to @Codeberg, where we are more likely to find contributors and […]

  • Reply collections

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    André Menrath

    Reply Collections have not yet really reached the centre of the . Among other things, moderation aspects play a role here (see FEP-7458 or FEP-5624). But in principle, they offer a wonderful opportunity to maintain consistency in discussion threads in the Fediverse. Smaller instances in particular often lack reactions to content published in the Fediverse. […]

  • Resuming Work and Engaging with Users

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    André Menrath

    We promised to keep you updated every two months, though this post comes a bit delayed (see reasons). Thankfully NLnet extended our time period. Now that at least one person can dedicate a regular 30 hours a week to the project, we are confident things will develop more quickly from now on. We are currently […]