{"id":72,"date":"2022-11-15T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2022-11-15T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:05:58","slug":"sharing-wordpress-posts-on-mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/15\/sharing-wordpress-posts-on-mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing WordPress Posts on Mastodon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a plugin for that -&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/jan.boddez.net\/wordpress\/share-on-mastodon\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jan.boddez.net\/wordpress\/share-on-mastodon\">Share on Mastadon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrence Eden <a href=\"https:\/\/shkspr.mobi\/blog\/2022\/11\/better-sharing-of-wordpress-posts-to-mastodon\/\">proposed the following filter<\/a> to make better-looking posts to Mastodon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"php\" class=\"language-php\">add_filter( 'share_on_mastodon_status', function( $status, $post ) {\n    \/\/  Create a short preview of the post\n    $status = \"New blog post: \";\n    $status .= \"\\\"\" . get_the_title($post) . \"\\\"\\n\\n\";\n    $status .= get_the_excerpt($post);\n    \/\/  Remove the \u2026 forced by the excerpt and replace with the Unicode symbol\n    $status = str_replace(\"\u2026\", \"\u2026\", $status);\n    \/\/  Add a link\n    \/\/$status .= \"\\n\\nRead more: \" . get_permalink( $post );\n    \/\/  Add tags\n    $tags = get_the_tags( $post-&gt;ID );\n    if ( $tags ) {\n        $status .= \"\\n\\n\";\n        foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {\n            $status .= '#' . preg_replace( '\/\\s\/', '', $tag-&gt;name ) . ' ';\n        }\n    }\n    $status = trim( $status );\n    return $status;\n}, 10, 2 );<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Add this code to your theme in <code>wp-content\/themes\/<em>themename<\/em>\/functions.php<\/code> and make sure auto-update is turned off for that theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a WordPress plugin with a custom filter to push my blog posts to Mastodon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[12,16],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-that-i-use","tag-software","tag-wordpress","eq-blocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveking.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/mastodon-logo.gif?fit=2239%2C2400&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveking.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}