ActivityPub for WordPress was updated today adding Bidirectional …

ActivityPub for WordPress was updated today adding Bidirectional Comment Federation.

Means I can type in the comments to replies and they should federate back over to the original thread. Before, WordPress really couldn’t act as a discussion federator; I made it easy on myself by just federating my comment URLs via webmention to wherever they needed to go manually (copy comment, paste into other website text box, submit.) Or at the very best, use my Mastodon or MicroBlog account to respond. Hopefully this makes replying back to others easier now; although I still don’t know about Webmention support or how it works in syndication…

I guess let’s find out? 🙈

∴https://starrwulfe.xyz/b/1Uaq・#ActivityPub #testing

OK here’s the big test…

Also this comment fell into the spam filter. Thanks Askismet.

@starrwulfe It did make it over here so there's that.

Akismet keeps spamming the replies though. What’s up with all that?

Anyway I just found something pretty interesting out. I think we’ve been using webmentions the whole time here using this format:
https://starrwulfe.xyz/?c=645 and not the other way. Gotta test that next.

@pfefferle there’s also a big bug in here where any nested reply past the 3rd level somehow winds up on the front page of the site instead of where its parent is, dropping COMMENT_POST_ID and getting the default <2>.

I’m doing some serious SQL fixing right now to move comments where they should be, but is there already an issue out for this in the Girhub?

cc @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz

@starrwulfe@vivaldi.net @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz this is not a bug (works perfect on my site since month), but seems to be a problem with caching. We are already checking how to work around that properly.

@pfefferle 😊 thanks! So you’re saying maybe I just need to adjust the cache settings somehow on my side to mitigate?
If you have an issue in GitHub I can track, please share, and of course if you need help testing, I’m happy to tinker around too 👍🏾
@starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz

@starrwulfe@vivaldi.net @starrwulfe@starrwulfe.xyz here https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/743 and https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/638

@pfefferle
Thanks for pointing me at those issues.

Btw, these comments under the long thread seem to post just fine… I’m not using any caching at all.

Check all after
https://starrwulfe.xyz/c=1908

@pfefferle …which you can’t because caching isn’t enabled. Ok, let me set that up later and get back to you.

Thanks for everything so far!

@starrwulfe it seems that the url itself does not work! It should redirect to the post url with the hash fragment! Maybe an issue with the Webserver?

@pfefferle Could be. I’m using Caddy

(Replying from my other account, sorry for the confusion!)