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Plugin Description
TootPress brings your data back and copies your toots from Mastodon to WordPress continuously. The toots will be saved in the WordPress database and can be displayed on the blog chronologically (but do not have to). Indeed, Mastodon is also blogging, micro-blogging so to speak.
Functions
- Copy your toots back
- Copy your tooted images back
- Display your toots on the blog
- Retrieve your complete timeline
- Languague: English, German (only FrontEnd)
Live Demo
Here!
Related Links
Configuration
Setup Manual
- Create an Application on your Mastodon Instance to get API Access (under Settings/Development)
- Restrict the Authorization of the created Application to Read (all data)
- Maintain Mastodon Instance and Access Token in the TootPress Settings
- Retrieve your Account ID (in WordPress under Tools/Toots)
- Maintain the Account ID in the TootPress Settings
- Create a new WordPress Page and add the Page to your Menu
- Maintain the Page ID in the TootPress Settings (you find the Page ID in URL of the Browser when editing the Page in WordPress)
- Run Mastodon API Request once (in WordPress under Tools/Toots)
- Activate Steady Fetch
- That’s it!
Instructions for Use
- You find TootPress in WordPress in the area of Settings and Tools
- Steady Fetch activates the automatic and regular load of new toots
- First API Request will copy your last 40 toots
- New toots will be loaded every 15 minutes (customizable)
- You can load your complete timeline into WordPress with the eponymous function
- Loading your complete timeline can take several hours depending of the amount of toots
- 480 toots are loaded per hour as maximum
- You can run a Mastodon API Request everytime at your own with the eponymous function
- There is no prescribed order for the execution of Steady Fetch, Complete Timeline or manual requests
- If problems occur, TootPress provides a Healthy Check
Supported Toot Objects
Following toot objects are supported.
- Text
- Images
- URLs
- Hashtags
- Mentions
Not supported Toot Objects
Following toot objects are not supported.
- Galleries
- Audio
- Video
- Poll
- Emojis
- Teaser
Excluded Toot Types
Following toot types are excluded from the data transfer.
- Boosts
- Replys
- Private Toots
CSS classes
TootPress comes with basic CSS Styles. For best fit it is required to add additional styles in your theme. All TootPress UI elements can be addressed with individual CSS selectors. Please use the browser development tools to find the right classes.
Data & Files
TootPress creates 2 folders within wp-content/uploads.
- tootpress-mastodonapidata = Archive of the received Mastodon API data
- tootpress-images = Toot Image Folder
Cron Jobs
- Steady Fetch (every 15 minutes, customizable)
- Load Complete Timeline (every 5 minutes)
TootPress API
WordPress Action: tootpress_toots_update (fired on toot update)
Screenshots
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