Elena Rossini<p><a href="https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/</a></p> <p>Hello Fedi friends!</p><p>I’m currently experimenting with the POSSE method of publishing (“<strong>P</strong>ublish [on your] <strong>O</strong>wn <strong>S</strong>ite, <strong>S</strong>yndicate <strong>E</strong>lsewhere”) on my federated WordPress site (this one) so that I can more easily organize posts and retrieve them in the future. This is the first of such posts.</p><p>I have created a “micro” post category and edited the functions.php file of my WordPress blog to exclude such posts from the main blog.</p><p>Here is the code I’m using:</p> <p><em>function exclude_category( $query ) {</em><br><em>if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {</em><br><em>$query->set( ‘cat’, ‘-2132’ );</em><br><em>}</em><br><em>}</em><br><em>add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_category’ );</em></p> <p>Where <strong>-2132</strong> is the number assigned to the category “micro”.</p><p>You can find the category number by hovering over it in the Categories menu.</p><p>I also plan to tweak my site’s navigation menu to make “micro” appear under the blog category.</p><p>At some point in the future that will replace the “blog”… otherwise it’s too confusing to follow how many blogs I actually have.</p><p>I am also debating whether to migrate my GoToSocial account to WordPress using the MOVE function. What’s holding me back for now? I will need to be able to implement Serdy’s blocklists here before I do that. I experienced some terrible trolling and abusive messages when I didn’t have blocklists in place on my GoToSocial account last month, so I learned my lesson.</p><p>And I’d like to see how “social” the <a href="https://wpfriends.at" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Friends for WordPress plugin by Alex Kirk</a> is, before I consolidate my two accounts.</p><p>Anyway, this is all really exciting, made possible by the magic of <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/activitypub/" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> and the ActivityPub for WordPress plugin by <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle" target="_blank">@pfefferle</a>. Thank you Matthias!</p><p>Onwards and upwards!</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/mysocalledsudolife/" target="_blank">#MySoCalledSudoLife</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/activitypub/" target="_blank">#ActivityPub</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/micro/" target="_blank">#micro</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/mysocalledsudolife/" target="_blank">#MySoCalledSudoLife</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/selfhosting/" target="_blank">#selfhosting</a></p>