I recently released a new version of Share on Mastodon.
As of version 0.17.0, Gutenberg users will see a “proper” document settings sidebar panel instead of the previous “classic” meta box.
If you find the new panel somehow doesn’t work for you, there’s an option under Settings > Share on Mastodon > Advanced that will let you use the old meta box instead.
Because of how WordPress’ block editor treats meta boxes, Gutenberg users were always left a tiny bit behind in terms of functionality; this version addresses that.
At the same time, I removed the jQuery dependency, and made some minor changes.
Customizing Statuses
Not new per se, but I don’t think I ever properly documented these:
If you’ve been wondering about customizing statuses without the need for custom code, check out the Status Template and Customize Status settings (also on the Advanced tab). The former lets you modify the plugin’s default status format; the latter adds a textarea to Share on Mastodons sidebar panel (or meta box) that you can use to further customize statuses for each post.
Of course, if you’ve been using a filter callback, that’s fine, too. (Such a filter will always override anything set through WordPress’ GUI.)
If you’re not afraid of a bit of ugly PHP, feel free to have a look at (the logic behind) this Share on Mastodon “add-on” I created.
Among other things, it converts a limited number of HTML elements to Markdown, to at least try and retain some sort of “semantics,” adds tags, and then shortens the result to just under 500 characters. (I know Markdown isn’t quite accessible, but merely stripping all tags, including links, isn’t great either.)
If all you wanted was to add hashtags, though, have a look at that Status Template option!
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