Project: WordPress Native Social Posts

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2026-05-08

Tagged: Automation, RSS, Social Media, WordPress

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I’ve been toying with the notion of having WordPress act as the default authority for all of my social media posts, and thought it might be nice to roll my own version. The goal is simple. Post to a category called Social Posts, and have those updates appear on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon as native social updates. Not as posts that link back to my blog. I tested sending the RSS feed for that category only to IFTTT and Zapier, and having those platforms post either directly or via Buffer, depending on their integrations. This wasn’t something I wanted to…

WordPress Social? I don’t get it!

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2026-05-05

Categories: Technology

Tagged: Social Media, WordPress

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I’m all for exciting new social networks, but after spending a handful of minutes playing around with WordPress.com/Social, I simply don’t get it. If you’ve been thinking about starting your own small, private social network with friends or family, or you want a space to post thoughts freely, or to import your historical posts from Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky without handing your words over to someone else’s platform, this one’s for you. Ostensibly a theme with short-form updates, threaded replies and the kind of barebones functionality you expect from an early Twitter clone, it’s far, far less underneath. Posting is…

WordPress Needs Better Export Support

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2026-03-18

Categories: Technology

Tagged: Blogging, Data Portability, WordPress

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I love WordPress, but getting my data out of WordPress.com isn’t as “easy” as promised. On a Premium plan I can’t export my data in useful way, and that lock-in worries me. Here’s why true data portability matters and why WordPress.com needs to do better .

Fitz Thiar: Thinking For The Impatient

Tag: WordPress

WordPress Needs Better Export Support