Micro.blog

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

Any advice for getting the Mastodon verification on my micro.blog?

petebrown
petebrown

@brian_wolf I took the link html snippet from Mastodon profile page and stuck it in the footer of my M.b site. Verification went green a few minutes later.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@petebrown I appreciate it Pete. I did this once, but nothing came of it. This time I’ll be patient.

petebrown
petebrown

@brian_wolf I hear ya. I should add that out of the like 30 times I’ve tried to get this sort of indieweb verification working, this is the first time it actually has ¯_(ツ)_/¯

furstenberg
furstenberg

@brian_wolf I find the easiest to be following the steps outlined in the help.

Changing the link to your url of course.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@furstenberg Awesome. Thank you! I will try it today.

furstenberg
furstenberg

@brian_wolf Let us know if it works for you or not.

If you need any help I’m sure we are many that can help you get this up and running.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@furstenberg Why I love it here.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@furstenberg @petebrown I have tried the footer and the custom theme. Never have worked. The footer is how I have it currently set. If you look at my Mb now there is a small . I set for the link.

furstenberg
furstenberg

@brian_wolf So when looking at your page, there is currently an anchor element in your footer, with rel=“me”.

What you want is a link element in your header, like the ones you have there already for Twitter and Instagram.

The custom theme route should solve that for you.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@furstenberg Unsure. The social links are the top are from the theme, I did not add them. I’ll keep playing with it.

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furstenberg
furstenberg

@brian_wolf Then you should be able to update the header of your theme.

If you search for the social links, you should be able to add another line below.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@furstenberg Thanks for the help. I tried again with no luck. I followed it with the best of my understanding. Unsure where I’ve messed up.

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@brian_wolf Well an update to this.

I just changed my Mastodon URL to include www. Then, poof it works! Verified now!

brian_wolf
brian_wolf

@furstenberg Thanks for the help. I got it working just now by adding the www. to my Mastodon url.

furstenberg
furstenberg

@brian_wolf That’s great!