So, the upcoming version of the AP plugin should, I think, allow replies (like, by a site author) to a previous “Fediverse comment” to “federate back.” That should be enough for most folks.
What I’m doing right now, though, is … I use a trick that (for now) requires some fairly specific markup inside a very specific block. And then this little “add-on” mu-plugin of mine takes it from there (and adds an inReplyTo property to the post’s ActivityPub representation).
Very much a work in progress!
@jan @janboddez Yep, I received this on my instance.
@jan @janboddez so hang on a sec; how do I do this on my own WP blog here? What do I “aim” the activitypub_in_reply_to field at to get the “inline federated reply” trick to work?
(side note; how do I put the shortlink next to the date as the permalinks like how you’ve done?)
You using IndieBlocks? Cool! 😃
So, I by now did get this reply twice, once through Webmention and once via, I think, ActivityPub, and if I look at your reply’s ActivityPub representation, I see the inReplyTo set correctly. Does that mean you figured it out? 🙂
inReplyTo is simply the URL of the post you’re replying to. And then you’ll also want any mentioned accounts in the cc property (but the plugin normally already does that).
[H]ow do I put the shortlink next to the date as the permalinks like how you’ve done?
I use another “trick,” in my theme, a filter (render_block_core/post-date) to modify the output of the Post Date block. Similar to how IndieBlocks adds microformats.
So I didn’t get this particular webmention for some reason. Could it be because my initial message to you also had “activitypub-in-reply-to” custom field set to the same thing? Can a post be both set for webmentions and activitypub at the same time?
I’ll leave this one “naked” and just use the block’s action to see how this works….
I was thinking it might be because of the #comment-1841 at the end of the permalink of my comment above, that your parser—the Webmention plugin, I think?—would perhaps not be able parse only that bit of the page, rather than the main post.
To be honest, I’m not sure what the activitypub_in_reply_to custom field even is; must be another plugin adding that. I have an “mu-plugin” modify, in PHP, the ActivityPub object sent out by the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress; to figure out what to add, it runs a couple regexes on the post content. No custom field involved.
I never got this one though. Hmm, I need to figure out what my parser is actually doing or start over from scratch with a different system perhaps. 🤔
how do I go about doing the µplugin thing?
In reply to https://jan.boddez.net/notes/9a5f268a52#comment-1846.
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