Tag: share on mastodon

Version 0.15.0 of Share on Mastodon is out. It comes with a “template” setting, which supports very basic tags. The per-post “custom message” feature has been improved, too. And image alt text is now fetched from the post content (with the Media Library value as a fallback).

Completely overhauled—disclaimer: this version’s not live, yet!—Share on Mastodon’s “image alt text” functions.

It’ll now always parse post content for images, and store each image’s alt (if any) attribute, and use that, regardless of what was stored—or not stored, courtesy of the “new” block editor—in wp_postmeta.

https://github.com/janboddez/share-on-mastodon/commit/917044f42790241e7be8d875c9ba7ea8d40b3c40

I’m deprecating the share_on_mastodon_enabled hook in favor of the “new” Share Always option. (The one thing making me reconsider was that the latter did in fact support a second, poorly documented, $post_id argument, which could be used to, e.g., enable forced sharing only for certain post types. That said, don’t think anyone actually uses it.)