andrewescott

Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.

It’s now solved. I had enabled DISABLE_WP_CRON previously to help with efficiency, and set up a daily cron job to run /wp-cron.php

Since my post was less than 24 hrs previous, and the ActivityPub plugin is hooked into WP Cron events, the post hadn’t been sent out. I spotted this after installing the WP Crontrol plugin and looking at the waiting WP Cron events. I’ve since updated my cron job to run /wp-cron.php every 15 minutes.

Thanks for the help!

I take it back. I had to unfollow the WordPress blog, and then (using a different Mastodon app, since the old Webfinger document had been cached), follow the blog again. Once I did this, a new follower showed up in the ActivityPub settings Followers page.

The big blocker seems to be that plain permalinks stopped the plugin working originally.

Thanks. It was a bit of a pain to ensure that my old permalinks would continue to work inbound, but the Redirects plugin helped. Now that I’m no longer using plain permalinks, webfinger works! (I’ve since deleted the .well-known/webfinger file.) However, I can’t follow @andrew@aes.id.au from Mastodon, i.e. the ActivityPub settings Followers page doesn’t show any followers, and no new posts show up when I follow it from elsewhere (even though it looks like it worked from the client side).

Thanks. My blog is hosted on a cPanel-based provider (Ventra IP) which uses Apache, and you can find it at https://aes.id.au (where @andrew@aes.id.au should be the “Mastodon profile” that the blog feed is exposed through).

Many months back, OpenID stopped working for me on Blogger, giving the unhelpful message “OpenID error”. I’ve got the OpenID plugin (v3.3.3) and XRDS-Simple plugin (v1.0) from DiSo. However, today I disabled the XRDS-Simple plugin and now OpenID is being recognised on Blogger again. Other sites seem to continue to accept my WordPress site as an OpenID Provider so it seems to have completely solved the problem.