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Mastodon and WordPress: 8 Ways to Make Them Work Together

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Business

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September 6, 2023

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Mastodon and WordPress seem like a pretty good match for each other. Both are open source platforms based on similar philosophies: To give users a way to build their own piece of online real estate and help democratizing publishing. Considering their commonalities, wouldn’t it make sense to find ways for the two platforms to work more closely together and integrate with each other? That’s exactly what we want to explore in this post. The following article talks about how you can use your WordPress site to verify your account on Mastodon, how to display Mastodon content in WordPress, automatically post […]

Press This: How Faust.js Listens to the Community

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Doc Pop

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Community, Press This

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August 31, 2023

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Ever since Faust.js officially came out of beta in June of 2023, the team has been collecting RFCs (or requests for comments) on Github to steer the direction of the project. In this episode, we talk with Joe Fusco, a Senior Software Developer at WP Engine, who tells us how listening to users will help to create a project for the community. We also talk about some recently added features and the state of headless WordPress

WordCamp US 2023 Looked to the Future and Beyond

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Emily Schiola

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Community, News

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August 26, 2023

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Landing in Washington DC you immediately feel the history. You feel the weight of the decisions being made in the city and it gives you a sense of pride for belonging to something bigger than yourself. That’s why it was such an apt setting for WordCamp US 2023, on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the CMS. Being around community members and seeing the work they’re doing shows how far we’ve come in 20 years and where the CMS can go in the future. The Gaylord National Resort was buzzing with the excitement of WordPressers eager to discuss the […]

Press This: How WordPress Can Keep the Web Independent with David Wolfpaw

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Doc Pop

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Community, Press This

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August 23, 2023

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How can WordPress help keep the web weird? In this episode of Press This, we talk with David Wolfpaw about the IndieWeb, a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web” that aims to keep the web independent. We talk about the philosophy behind the IndieWeb movement, how it can benefit the web for everyone, and what plugins and tools WordPress users have to take advantage of it.

Google Link Best Practices Guide: What It Means for Your SEO

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Nick Schäferhoff

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SEO

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August 22, 2023

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If you want to rank well in search engines, links, specifically backlinks, are essential. They signal to Google and other search engines that others like your content and endorse it. Besides content, they are the most important ranking factor that Google considers. The search engine uses links to gauge the relevancy of you pages for different topics and also to discover new pages to index. Usually, Google is not super forthcoming about their algorithm and how exactly they judge websites, however, they recently published a guide for link building best practices. The earlier version only contained information about how to […]

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