Tag: ClassicPress

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I’ve been using the excellent ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress to connect this blog to the Fediverse for several years now, and it keeps getting better. The plugin makes any WordPress blog also work like a Mastodon server, so you can follow and interact from any site running Mastodon, Akkoma, Pixelfed (image posts only, of course), Snac or my favorite, GoToSocial.

Last year some features started breaking on here as WordPress and ClassicPress diverged, and I put some stop-gap fixes in place. I never quite got around to debugging it in my spare time, though. So I was very happy to see that starting with the 7.8.3 release a couple of weeks back, ActivityPub for WordPress now explicitly checks for ClassicPress to fall back to a compatibility mode!

You still need to trick it into thinking it’s on WordPress 6.5 or later (ClassicPress 2 split off from WordPress 6.2), but the latest version fixes all the problems I’d been working around on this site, including broken comment forms and missing images on the Fediverse view of a post.

Update: I missed a scenario with filtering comment authors in comment_reply_link. I’ve manually worked around it for the moment, and when I have a chance I’ll either do a proper bug report or suggest a proper fix.

So I’d like to give a shout-out to Matthias Pfefferle and the ActivityPub Plugin team and say: thanks for fixing it!

And if anyone reading this wants to connect their WordPress or ClassicPress site directly to the Fediverse (rather than just cross-posting or auto-posting links), this plugin is still the best way to do it.

On a related note…

I finally got around to fixing Share Classicly so it won’t add its link to the Fediverse view of a post. (Aside from cutting the clutter, boosting would make more sense anyway.) That’s the plugin I made that adds a ShareOpenly link to each post, so your readers can share to a Micropub, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc. account.

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Back in 2002, I set up this blog on b2. A year later, b2 updates had stagnated, I migrated it to a fork of b2 called WordPress.

In the intervening 21 years, WordPress has gone on to power a huge fraction of the web. But in my opinion the project has lost its way, starting with the move to the Gutenberg block editor in 2018 and trying to become everything to everyone instead of just really good blogging software.

In response to the Block Editor merge, another project forked WordPress to create ClassicPress. Initially it was more or less WordPress Minus Gutenberg, but they’ve continued to do their own development as well, from cleaning up old complex code to improving the way media management works. I sorta kept up with it for a while, but finally decided to really evaluate it this month, and it’s actually really good! So I migrated a couple of test blogs, then Katie’s Feral Tomatoes.

Then I started looking at what it would take to migrate this 22-year-old, 3,255-post behemoth of a blog. (And that’s after moving a bunch of posts to other parts of my site, and deleting a bunch of no-longer-useful posts like ‘Migrated from 1.1 to 1.2. Let me know what’s broken.” or “Check out this weird link!” with no commentary (especially when the weird link is long-dead by now anyway).

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