Comments and Webmentions

While this blog doesn’t and likely never will support comments, I’ve recently implemented some support for incoming webmentions, which may appear below a post, much exactly like the comments of yore.

DrewMcLellan does an excellent job explaining what webmentions are, and Wikipedia summarizes the protocol as follows:

Similar to pingback, Webmention is one of four types of linkbacks, but was designed to be simpler than the XML-RPC protocol that pingback relies upon, by instead only using HTTP and x-www-urlencoded content.

My implementation can be found on GitHub, and even though this very site is set up somewhat unusually, I’ve kept the plugin fairly generic: it should work on just about any WordPress site.

2 responses to “Comments and Webmentions”

  1. Jan Boddez Avatar

    @jan I’ve obviously re-added a comment form since. But I do close comments after a month or two, and that includes webmentions.

    Quick check to see what happens to this ActivityPub reaction 😅

    1. Jan Boddez Avatar

      @jan Guess the ActivityPub plugin doesn’t follow the same rules 😁