Alex Kirk

Yes, I still see all your posts. Could you view yourself in an Incognito/Private window to verify?

Maybe you could also share a screenshot of what you’re seeing? Thank you!

Oh no. You’re saying it removes the posts from your frontpage when it’s active? In order to show your own Friends feed at https://sethgoldstein.me/friends/ (when logged in), it does modify the Query Loop but it should only do so on /friends/ to avoid what you are describing.

Do you have other plugins installed that might be interfering?

Hi, it does sound like something causes a PHP fatal error (sorry about that!) Do you have access to your server’s error log? Maybe you can find something there.

It is normal (until I implement Get old ActivityPub messages upon subscribe using RSS #136) that when you add a Mastodon account, no messages appear. Only when they post something.

Thank you for your feedback! This is helpful indeed.

I did quite a bit work to make the Friends plugin functional on multisite and it should work both inside a multisite and between multisites, so I wonder what might be going wrong for you. I have to admit that primary and original focus is on creating friendships between completely unrelated sites across the internet.

Regarding BuddyPress functionality, I am afraid I don’t have a lot of experience. Could you help me with some screenshots at which points it would make sense to integrate the Friends plugin?

I did not find an obvious way to friend request another user on the same blog.

This is not supported. I tried to cover this in the FAQ entry “Why is the friendship established between WordPress sites and not WordPress users?” Specifically, a “friend user” is associated with a remote site. This could be one inside a multisite network or one elsewhere.

The 404 page for the /friends/ page is possibly a known bug, could you check that Github issue and maybe draw the connection to your experience?

On multisite (even when using different domains and subdomains) every sub-site needs the main site with the plugin installed. This is because the friend link always goes to the root blog. That’s less than ideal for me.

Could you maybe post one or more screenshots to illustrate this? This would be a bug since by design the home_url() of a site is supposed to be used, it should not even be aware of the root site. Are you working with a subdir multisite?

Ok understood! You can easily do this and override each of the templates in https://github.com/akirk/friends/tree/main/templates by just adding it to your theme under a friends/ directory.

So, for example to display “hello” instead of the logged in /friends/ page, you’d create a file containing “hello” in the friends/frontend/index.php file.

So for you specifically you can create a file wp-content/themes/hotelblues/friends/frontend/index.php and it will override that template.

Since this is not very useful, you’d be best off by copying the respective file from https://github.com/akirk/friends/tree/main/templates/ and then start your customization from there.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Alex Kirk.

Hi! I’d like to help you but could you please be more specific? The Friends Plugin uses a Custom Post Type (CPT) but I am not sure if you mean this.

Could you share (relative) URLs and describe which behavior you see there? Thanks!

People can follow your blog via ActivityPub. When you post something they’ll receive it.

Mentioning others is theoretically finished for the ActivityPub protocol but the PR needs a review: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/pull/213. If you want you can already download that version as a ZIP from https://github.com/akirk/wordpress-activitypub/tree/outgoing-mentions

Great! Thank you for helping me debug this!

re 1, I’ve logged this here: https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/135

re 2, Mastodon is “push” (see this super old issue https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34), so you can only get new entries as they arrive.

A workaround that works and I am considering is to temporarily subscribe the RSS feed just for the backfill. You can do this manually by adding https://mastodon.uno/@staipa.rss as another feed with the SimplePie parser.

I’m tracking this approach in https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/136

I think it’s because there are no posts yet (it causes a 404 for /friends/). This is why I suggested to add some other feed that uses RSS because for it you can click the “Explicitly Refresh” (it’s not possible for Mastodon).

If you added https://www.ads-software.com/news/ then the URL https://www.staipa.it/blog/friends/www.ads-software.com-news/ should work. Does it show news entries?

Thanks for sharing the screenshot, this is helpful! Can you check the Subscriptions section? And also click “Modifica” to view the Edit Friend page.

So, just to confirm, in your Friends → Friends & Requests you see two users, your own on Mastodon and www.ads-software.com-news? If you click Edit on the www.ads-software.com-news one, in the section “Posts”, does it say “0 posts”?

Oh, you’d just go to wp-admin, then on the left Friends → Add New Friend and enter a URL like https://www.ads-software.com/news/

Ok but probably there are no posts yet (also because of another bug, could you go to that user and deactivate the feed, save and re-activate it and save?). Maybe you could subscribe to some other RSS feed just to get started?

Did you already add someone as a friend or subscribed to someone? I found a bug with the Friends page that happens if there are no posts from friends yet.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Alex Kirk.

No, this is not currently supported but would be interesting. Tracking it here! https://github.com/akirk/friends/issues/134