rt-mastodon-feed

A simple widget for Wordpress that displays a Mastodon feed. Uses Wordpress's built in SimplePie.

Blogpost with more info here

Features

• Super simple, easy to modify
• If caching is enabled, the feed is processed only every hour instead of every time
• Supports multiple images, movies, detects Youtube links and embeds as movie

Real world examples

Visit codedojo.com or c2kyoto.com to see it in action. You can also remove the wordpress specific stuff, hardcode the feed url and use it on a regular webpage too.

Installation

• First, download SimplePie and install it. It's pretty simple. It's a php thingie that can download and process rss feeds as well as cache them and required for this widget
• Put the entire rt-mastodon-feed folder in your wordpress wp-content/plugins directory.
• In the Wordpress Plugins menu, click "Enable" on the plugin. If SimplePie isn't installed, it will tell you.
• On The Wordpress Dashboard, look for a new "RT Mastodon Feed Settings" option. Click that and fill in the info.
• Add the RT Mastodon Feed widget to your sidebar using Wordpress' customize menu.

That's it!

Known Issues and warnings

• It downloads any movies completely even if you haven't clicked them. I chose to do it this way but others may disagree due to bandwith concerns (there's no way to easily get a thumbnail of a movie via mastodon, is there?)
• Movies are just white until you click the play button on iOS Safari, not sure why (help me obi-wan css master)
• For some reason I had trouble grabbing the feed avatar image automatically so I force you to manually put in the URL to it. If you right click your avatar and view image, that link should work I guess
• If you want to customize the css, it's located inside the main .php file because Seth is lazy
• I've barely used it, so who knows what won't work, for example I should really see what it does with re-toots or whatever you call them over there

History:

1.1.1 - Polished Mastodon media layout, video posters, lazy image loading, and iOS Safari-friendly video attributes.

1.1.0 - Now uses Wordpress's built in SimplePie instead of its own which was just dumb.

Patches/fixes appreciated!