TootPress copies your toots from Mastodon to WordPress continuously.
TootPress copies your toots from Mastodon to WordPress continuously. The toots can be displayed chronologically in the blog, making your timeline accessible to other people outside of Mastodon. In addition, you regain ownership of your own data back.
- Copy your toots back
- Copy your tooted images back
- Display your toots on the blog
- Retrieve your complete timeline
- Languague: English, German (only FrontEnd)
- Download the plugin from the GitHub Repository (see latest Release)
- Rename the downloaded folder to "tootpress"
- Upload the folder to the WordPress Plugin Directory
- Activate the plugin in WordPress
- Follow the configuration steps below
- 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!
- 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
Following toot objects are supported.
- Text
- Images
- Galleries
- URLs
- Hashtags
- Mentions
Following toot objects are not supported.
- Audio
- Video
- Poll
- Emojis
- Teaser
Following toot types are excluded from the data transfer.
- Boosts
- Replys
- Private Toots
Data storage and process logic is separated from the WordPress Framework. The toots are not saved in the table wp_posts. And TootPress is not registering a custom post type for the toots as well.
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.
TootPress creates 2 folders within the WordPress Uploads Directory.
- tootpress-mastodonapidata = Archive of the received Mastodon API data
- tootpress-images = Toot Image Folder
- Steady Fetch (every 15 minutes, customizable)
- Load Complete Timeline (every 5 minutes)
WordPress Action: tootpress_toots_update (fired on toot update)
Following components of WordPress are used in TootPress.
- HTTP API
- WP-Cron
- Settings API
- Options API
- Rewrite API
- Date Functions
- MySQL Functions
- URL Functions
- File Functions
- Content Functions
- Escaping Functions
Boosts are not your toots. Replys are communication, but not micro-posts. Private Toots should stay private.
TootPress does not modify the existing canonical url handling in WordPress. If you want to create a unique canonical url for each TootPress subpage, you must control that with a SEO plugin. This becomes relevant when your toots must be distributed over several pages and the plugin starts the paging process.
The length of the cron period in combination with the configuration of caching determines how early a toot will be displayed within the blog. If a toot should be displayed as early as possible, the caching must be deactivated for the page containing the toots. Another possibility is removing the affected page from the cache, if new toots have been loaded. For this, a WordPress Action is fired by the plugin, which then must be processed by your caching plugin.
Backlinks to Mastodon can be activated in the plugin settings. In this case, the Mastodon Logo, which is shown for each toot, will be extended with an link to the original toot on the corresponding Mastodon instance. Recommendation is not activating the backlinks as this could cause an negative impact on SEO rating.
No. TootPress does not support the WordPress Multisite Feature. The plugin is working on the master-site, but is not working on all other child sites within the wordpress network.
- Low maturity level
- Early stage of development
- Future updates may require a complete reload of the toots
This repository follows the git-flow workflow to a large extent.
- master branch is the latest release
- develop branch is the current state of development
- feature branches contain dedicated features in development
- bugfix branches contain dedicated bugfixes in development
Hotfix and release branches will not be applied in most cases.
This project is licensed under the GPL3 License.
- April 2024
- Feature: Support of Gallery Toots
- Feature: Amount of Toots will be shown in WordPress Dashboard
- Feature: Option to activate Backlinks to Mastodon
- Changed: Label of User Interface Section in Plugin Options
- Bugfix: Plugin CSS will now really be activated
- Bugfix: Rewrite Rules will be updated after changed settings
- Bugfix: Internal Plugin Version will be set corretly
- Bugfix: CSS Option will be set correctly with Restore of default Settings
- April 2023
- Bugfix: Label for Option Nav Standard will displayed again
- April 2023
- New: Available in WordPress Plugin Directory
- Added: Escaping Echos
- Changed: CSS Enqueuing
- Changed: Retrive Image Files via HTTP API
- March 2023
- Initial Release