Watching the flow of ActivityPub posts via WordPress

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#339 opened on Nov 25, 2025 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: wordpress
Domain: backend, web-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing the proposed wordpress.com changes.json feed and the six fields listed in the issue. Determine where this project could consume and present the feed, and clarify the desired display and polling behavior before coding. Done means the ActivityPub/WordPress activity is visible beyond the user's own posts and the result is useful for evaluating the connection.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

I want to see how people are using the connection between WordPress and ActivityPub.

Right now all I see are the posts I write.

Seeing what people are doing might give us ideas how to improve our respective products.

1999

We had a similar itch in 1999 when we wanted to see what the bloggers were writing. When a blog updated it would ping, we'd verify that they changed and if so, it would appear at the top of the list at weblogs.com.

Its output was a file called changes.xml, it had three bits of info for each update, the name, a url and timestamp.

There was a limit to 100 items in the file.

2025

wordpress.com maintains a changes.json file at a fixed location which we can poll.

there's a limit to the number of items in the file.

each item has:

name of blog it came from
title of the post if it has one
when it was published
url of the post via mastodon
url of the post via wordpress
url of rss feed for the site

that's where to start. let's see what we get to see where we go with this.

What will happen

We will of course share the info with the people who are using it. ;-)

Guess what we'll all start writing about -- how great it is and what doesn't work.

Giving a voice to the bloggers to help drive the direction of the tech.

I bet the users we're attracting now are pretty leading edge people.

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