Elena Rossini<p><a href="https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/</a></p><p>Hello Fedi friends,</p><p>Yesterday I started <a href="https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">posting #MySoCalledSudoLife messages on my WordPress site (aka here)</a> so that it will be easier to find and organize them in the future. Having them live on my <a href="https://aseachange.com/@elena" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">GoToSocial account</a> started to feel counterproductive… as search in the Fediverse is still hard to do.</p><p>So far so good!</p><p>The <a href="https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">script I mentioned in yesterday’s post</a> did its job – so these “micro blogs” do not show up on my main blog feed, but are <a href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/micro/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">in a category of their own</a>.</p><p>This is what <a href="https://elenarossini.com/category/my-so-called-sudo-life/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">“My So-Called Sudo Life” blog category</a> looks like right now:</p><a href="https://elenarossini.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/sudolife-web.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><em>a screenshot showing how my website displays “my so-called-sudo life” blog posts in a masonry grid</em><p>I just installed <a href="https://alex.kirk.at" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Alex Kirk</a>‘s plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-mastodon-apps/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Enable Mastodon Apps for WordPress</a> – which means that I was able to log onto my federated WordPress site… in the app <a href="https://tapbots.com/ivory/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ivory for iOS</a>!</p><p>It’s amazing to see all my blog posts in Ivory’s feed… and to think I can interact with readers there.</p><a href="https://elenarossini.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/EMA-Ivory.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>Now a little hiccup I’m experiencing in Ivory is that I’m not able to follow other Fediverse accounts for some reason; I keep getting a “server failure” error but I wonder if it’s a problem on my end with the security settings I have in place. Up next: logging onto my WP account in <a href="https://phanpy.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Phanpy.social</a> and the app <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Mona for iOS</a> for further testing. I will report back tomorrow about how it went.</p><p>It’s exciting to think I could turn my WordPress blog into a social hub. Thank you for this <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://alex.kirk.at/author/alex/" target="_blank">@alex</a> !</p><p>If you’re seeing this post in your Fediverse feed, I have a favor to ask: can you please add a quick comment, so I can test if I can reply from Ivory / Phanpy or Mona? And follow you from there? Thank you!</p><p>Onwards and upwards!</p><p>Elena</p><p>P.S.: for all my social links, check out: <a href="https://elena.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">elena.social</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/alex-kirk/" target="_blank">#AlexKirk</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/enable-mastodon-apps/" target="_blank">#EnableMastodonApps</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/fediverse/" target="_blank">#fediverse</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/my-adventures-in-self-hosting/" target="_blank">#myAdventuresInSelfHosting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/my-so-called-sudo-life/" target="_blank">#mySoCalledSudoLife</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/plugins/" target="_blank">#plugins</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/self-hosting/" target="_blank">#selfHosting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://elenarossini.com/tag/wordpress/" target="_blank">#WordPress</a></p>