Automattic
Profile Editor
The first thing most people want to do when setting up a social media profile is to edit/customize that profile. Currently the ActivityPub plugin draws its profile settings from various places in WP, and it neither helps make those connections, nor does it collect them into a single convenient place.
This project will create a consolidated UI for editing ActivityPub profiles in the plugin. It will probably also be a deluxe drop-in replacement for the Follow Me block, although that will need to be tested in practice vs creating a new Profile block.
To illustrate, here is a Mastodon profile view of my mattwiebe.blog profile
It's not clear to a user where any of those settings are being drawn from. This makes sense from a WP integration perspective, but not from a user's perspective.
A few notes:
- This can live in both Settings -> ActivityPub and also become a kind of supercharged version of the Follow Me block. The latter is currently read-only, but would become read/write and allow support for a Header image (this would effectively allow using the Follow Me block for your Site's header).
- Header images have various problems:
- Core header images are unsupported in block themes
- users only use the whole-blog header image, no per-user settings
- We should allow overriding the default
blognameandblogdescriptiontitle/tagline stuff with specific ActivityPub Profile content. - Allow adding extra profile links
This would be extremely helpful!
Not likely related, but the odd New York, New York username style of a WordPress.com Activity pub enabled site seems clunky, speaking for my test instance @[email protected] why the dupe naming?
this is because most of the platforms only show the informations before the middle "@" @cogdoglab.wordpress.com and we wanted to represent the blog, so the domain made a lot of sense for us.
