Notes, Replies, Likes

short content: a post or status update with just plain content and typically without a title
a reply to content typically on another site
a way to pay compliments to the original post/poster of external content
  • WordPress is too slow for status updates. I need to try a MicroPub solution but I couldn’t get OmniBear or Indigenous to work. I could never participate in Twitter chats and try to syndicate notes from WordPress
  • JetPack syndication is really just a link to your post. I can publish to Twitter with Bridgy. I will lean on that and post natively to LinkedIn when needed.
  • I don’t like the gravatar image sent with Bridgy.
  • I like the LinkedIn option of Bridgy I had with Known.
  • Huge thank you to the army of volunteers who make all of this possible.

What did I do:

  • Added a plug-in to exclude all uncategorized posts from my post page.
  • Copied the post-kind  menu from Chris Aldrich’s source code and added a bit of CSS.
  • Removed blank thumbnails from post in the Customizer (after trying to write CSS to do it for me for about an hour).
  • Not too bad really

So syndicating post-kinds like notes and  bookmarks to LinkedIn doesn’t seem to go as well.

First I don’t want to send my ugly mug with every note about everything I read on the web. Need to figure this out.

Using Jetpack now and may remove the syndication site. Thinking about Jetpack in general. I might remove it entirely. The idea of a shadow site on wordpress.com seems like the opposite goal of owning my data.

There is a custom message box. Will try that.