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Joe Steinbring

WordPress

The content management system behind a large share of the web. It backs jws.news, which is where the articles counted on these pages are published.

I have built and maintained WordPress sites across multiple agencies, run my own long-running publishing site, and use its ActivityPub integration to participate in the Fediverse.

Articles written
3
Official website
wordpress.org
Age
23 years (since 2003)
Projects using it
telnet.jws.dev, JWS News

Experience highlights

  • Built and maintained client sites at Starkmedia and Bader Rutter, and institutional WordPress sites at UW-Milwaukee.
  • JWS News has used WordPress for more than a decade.
  • With ActivityPub enabled, a WordPress site can serve as a Fediverse profile, publish posts to followers, and receive federated replies as comments.

From the blog

Related writing

Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to WordPress.

  1. I created a private fediverse instance

    Back during “funemployment“, I created JWS Social. It is a GoToSocial instance that I am hosting with K&T Host. I already have a Mastodon instance (Toot Works) that I am hosting with Masto.host but there are 83 users on there and I wanted something that was just mine…

  2. How I future-proofed my online identity

    Before Twitter collapsed, a lot of my online identity was connected to my account on the service. A lot of my content was also trapped inside of silos that were controlled by corporations. I attempted in 2018 to reduce my dependency on things like Twitter and Instagram by using…

  3. Writing my own minimally viable Mastodon-compatible ActivityPub instance

    Last year, I created my own Mastodon instance, started using Pixelfed, and even made it possible to follow this blog from the fediverse. The big benefit of this ecosystem over something like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc is that every service that is part of the fediverse can b…

From GoToSocial

Related thoughts

Short posts about WordPress, matched by topic hashtags.

  • #wordpress
  • #activitypub
  • #fediverse
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