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<p>We’re back with a fresh release, and this one makes following and sharing smoother than ever—plus gives you more control over how your posts can be quoted.</p><p>A New Way to Follow (For Now)</p><p>Starting today, users on WordPress.com sites and self-hosted sites connected through Jetpack can see the posts of accounts they follow directly in their WordPress.com Reader timeline. The Following UI has been around for a little while, yet hidden, and with this release it will be enabled by default for these sites.</p><p>When you follow an account, ActivityPub checks for a discoverable RSS feed. If one exists, it’s automatically added to your Reader timeline so new posts appear alongside everything else you already follow. Unfollowing works the same way—the feed disappears when you remove the account. And if you’d like to view the feed for an account you’ve followed, just hover over it in the list table and click View Feed.</p><p>Think of this as a bridge: a simple way to read the posts of accounts you follow today, while we continue building a full, first-class ActivityPub reading experience for tomorrow.</p><p>There are a couple of details to keep in mind. Removing a subscription directly in the Reader won’t update your site’s Following list, and interactions are limited to what RSS allows, which means sharing and reposting rather than the full range of ActivityPub features.</p><p>Running a self-hosted site without Jetpack? You can still <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2025/07/09/7-0-0-i-will-follow-you/" rel="nofollow">enable the Following UI manually</a>—it just won’t connect with the Reader.</p><p>Quote Post Controls</p><p>We’ve also added support for Mastodon’s quote post feature—and given you an easy way to control how others can quote your content.</p><p>When writing in the Block Editor, you’ll now see a sidebar setting that lets you decide whether everyone can quote your post, only your followers can, or if quoting is reserved for you alone. Once published, Mastodon and other compatible platforms will honor your choice automatically. No extra setup needed—just write, choose, and publish with confidence.</p><p>Full Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>Added a setting to control who can quote your posts.<br>Added support for QuoteRequest activities (FEP-044f), enabling proper handling, validation, and policy-based acceptance or rejection of quote requests.<br>Add upgrade routine to enable ActivityPub feeds in WordPress.com Reader<br>Add Yoast SEO integration for author archives site health check.<br>Improved interaction policies with clearer defaults and better Mastodon compatibility.<br>New site health check warns if active Captcha plugins may block ActivityPub comments.<br>Sync following meta to enable RSS feed subscriptions for ActivityPub actors in WordPress.com Reader<br>You can now follow people and see their updates right in the WordPress.com Reader when using Jetpack or WordPress.com.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Added support for fetching actors by account identifiers and improved reliability of actor retrieval.<br>Clarify error messages in account modal to specify full profile URL format.<br>Improved checks to better identify public Activities.<br>Improved compatibility by making the ‘implements’ field always use multiple entries.<br>Improved recipient handling for clarity and improved visibility handling of activities.<br>Remote reply blocks now sync account info across all blocks on the same page<br>Standardized notification handling with new hooks for better extensibility and consistency.<br>Updated sync allowlist to add support for Jetpack notifications of likes and reposts.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Fixed an issue where post metadata in the block editor was missing or failed to update.<br>Fix Flag activity object list processing to preserve URL arrays<br>Fix PHP warning in bulk edit scenario when post_author is missing from $_REQUEST<br>Posts now only fall back to the blog user when blog mode is enabled and no valid author exists, ensuring content negotiation only runs if an Actor is available.</p><p>Downloads</p><p>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.7.5.0.zip" rel="nofollow">activitypub.7.5.0.zip</a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/7.5.0" rel="nofollow">tag/7.5.0</a></p><p>Thank you!</p><p>Thanks to everyone who contributed code, tested, offered feedback, or lent support along the way. Update to 7.5.0 today and follow, share, and quote to your heart’s content!</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="type=&#x27;Article&#x27; attributed_to=None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2025/10/01/7-5-0-follow-the-feed-quote-the-lead/">See Original Article</a> </small>

<p>Ready for a smoother ride on the Fediverse? ActivityPub for WordPress 7.3.0 is here to make your experience friendlier and more flexible than ever. Whether you’re keeping out unwanted guests, bringing stray conversations home, or just tidying up your digital footprint, this release puts powerful new tools right at your fingertips. Let’s take a look at what’s new!</p><p>Personalized &amp; Site-Wide Moderation</p><p>With this release, Moderation tools are easier to discover and manage, thanks to a revamped two-tiered system that empowers both site admins and individual users with greater control over their Fediverse experience.</p><p>Now, site administrators can set up site-wide blocks—covering domains, keywords, and even specific actors—right from the Settings screen or the new Blocked Actors table. These tools work together to keep out unwanted content and spammy actors for everyone on your site.</p><p>But we didn’t stop there! Every user can fine-tune their own experience. Head to your Profile to add personal domain and keyword blocks, or visit the new Blocked Actors submenu under Users to manage who can interact with you. Blocking someone is easier than ever—just paste their profile ID or webfinger, or use the handy new “Block” link right from your Followers list.</p><p>Followers List With Block Option<br>Block Account Confirmation<br>Followers After Blocking</p><p></p><p>Whenever new ActivityPub content comes in, the plugin checks it against both global and personal blocks. Domains are matched not just to the sender, but also to the activity and object IDs. Keywords are scanned throughout the content, summaries, and even actor names. Site-wide rules always run first, followed by your personal settings—so you’re protected at every level. (For the blog actor, only site-wide blocks apply.)</p><p>For backwards compatibility, the classic comment disallow list is still supported, ensuring your existing moderation rules continue to work seamlessly.</p><p>Saying Goodbye, the Right Way</p><p>Sometimes, a clean break is necessary. Whether you’re retiring a blog, removing a user, or handling old content, this release makes sure your presence in the Fediverse can be removed gracefully and consistently.</p><p>We’ve added a self-destruct feature for sites that want to step away entirely. With a single CLI command (wp activitypub self_destruct), WordPress will send out Delete activities to all followers. Built-in progress tracking and admin notifications let you know when the process has finished, so you can be sure your Fediverse footprint is fully cleared.</p><p>User deletion is now handled with the same care. When a user is removed from WordPress, a corresponding Delete activity is sent to their followers, ensuring that connections across the network are properly closed.</p><p>Bring the Conversation to You</p><p>Sometimes a reply you care about doesn’t make it all the way to your Inbox. Maybe it was posted on a remote server with finicky delivery, or slipped past the usual flow of ActivityPub. With this release, you don’t have to miss out.</p><p>Now you can search for any remote URL directly. If the comment is already in your database, you’ll be taken straight to the matching comment thread on your blog post. If not, the plugin will fetch and import the remote reply to that post, so you can fold scattered conversations back into your site seamlessly.</p><p>This means you’re no longer limited to what arrives automatically. If you’ve got a link to a discussion happening elsewhere in the Fediverse, you can pull it right into your own comment threads and keep the context intact.</p><p>A Persistent Inbox for Better Debugging</p><p>Fediverse interactions can get complex, and sometimes you need deeper insight into what’s really happening under the hood. That’s where the new persistent inbox comes in.</p><p>When enabled in Advanced Settings, the plugin now logs all incoming Create or Update activities. Instead of vanishing once processed, these entries are collected in a dedicated Inbox Collection—giving you a complete trail to reference when debugging.</p><p>Full Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>Add actor blocking functionality with list table interface for managing blocked users and site-wide blocks.<br>Add code coverage reporting to GitHub Actions PHPUnit workflow with dedicated coverage job using Xdebug.<br>Add comprehensive blocking and moderation system for ActivityPub with user-specific and site-wide controls for actors, domains, and keywords.<br>Add comprehensive unit tests for Followers and Following table classes with proper ActivityPub icon object handling.<br>Added link and explanation for the existing Starter Kit importer on the help tab of the Following pages.<br>Adds a self-destruct feature to remove a blog from the Fediverse by sending Delete activities to followers.<br>Adds a User Interface to select accounts during Starter Kit import.<br>Adds support for importing Starter Kits from a link (URL).<br>Adds support for searching (remote) URLs similar to Mastodon, redirecting to existing replies or importing them if missing.<br>Adds support for sending Delete activities when a user is removed.<br>Adds support for Starter Kit collections in the ActivityPub API.<br>A global Inbox handler and persistence layer to log incoming Create and Update requests for debugging and verifying Activity handling.<br>Follower lists now include the option to block individual accounts.<br>Improved handling of deleted content with a new unified system for better tracking and compatibility.<br>Moderation now checks blocked keywords across all language variants of the content, summary and name fields.<br>When activated or deactivated network-wide, the plugin now refreshes rewrite rules across all sites.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Add default avatars for actors without icons in admin tables.<br>Added support for list of Actor IDs in Starter Kits.<br>Improve Following class documentation and optimize count methods for better performance.<br>Refactor actor blocking with unified API for better maintainability.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Blocks relying on user selectors no longer error due to a race condition when fetching users.<br>Fix duplicate HTML IDs and missing form labels in modal blocks.<br>Fix malformed ActivityPub handles for users with email-based logins (e.g., from Site Kit Google authentication).<br>Fix PHP 8.4 deprecation warnings by preventing null values from being passed to WordPress core functions.<br>Improves handling of author URLs by converting them to a proper format.<br>Improves REST responses by skipping invalid actors in Followers and Following controllers.<br>More reliable Actor checks during the follow process.<br>Prevents Application users from being followed.<br>Proper implementation of FEP 844e.<br>Switches ActivityPub summaries to plain text for better compatibility.</p><p>Downloads</p><p>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.7.3.0.zip" rel="nofollow">activitypub.7.3.0.zip</a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/7.3.0" rel="nofollow">tag/7.3.0</a></p><p>Thank you!</p><p>Big thanks to everyone who contributed code, shared feedback, tested, or encouraged us along the way! Together, we’re making the fediverse more connected—one release at a time. ❤️</p><p>We’ve just rolled out version 7.3.0—try it out and let us know what you think!</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="type=&#x27;Article&#x27; attributed_to=None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2025/08/28/7-3-0-ctrl-fed-delete/">See Original Article</a> </small>

<p>Getting started with ActivityPub on WordPress just got a lot easier. A new guided onboarding experience is now part of the plugin, designed to help you configure key settings and understand how your site connects to the Fediverse—from the moment you activate it.</p><p>Whether you’re new to ActivityPub or just setting things up again, the onboarding flow helps you make informed choices around visibility, content formatting, and profile setup. It’s built to give you confidence that your content is reaching the right audiences in the right way.</p><p>Tailored for You</p><p>The plugin now adapts its behavior based on the caching plugins you have installed. You’ll also find clearer guidance if you’re using Surge, and an option to fine-tune how your content is tailored for browsers versus Fediverse services.</p><p>We’ve moved profile-related settings out of the welcome page and into new dashboard widgets, so they’re easier to find and update. And to make the learning curve smoother, the Help tab now includes a section explaining how ActivityPub works on the users page.</p><p>Media, Previews, and Performance</p><p>Beyond onboarding, this release adds support for audio and video attachments in ActivityPub embeds and previews. Posts shared to the Fediverse can now include up to four images, and you can choose how many to include on a per-post basis. Editor previews have also been improved—they now show media even if the post hasn’t been published yet.</p><p>For performance, author profiles now return a smaller set of extra fields (up to 20) to avoid bloated responses, and invalid items in the Outbox are skipped gracefully instead of causing errors.</p><p>Designed to Grow With You</p><p>This update also brings better mobile support for settings pages, improved documentation, and more robust error handling for things like missing or misformatted Outbox requests. And for developers, several filters and hooks have been updated or deprecated to make future work smoother and more predictable.</p><p>If you’ve been curious about joining the Fediverse or connecting your blog in a more structured way, now’s a great time to try it. Just activate the plugin and let the onboarding guide you through the rest.</p><p>Tried the new onboarding? Let us know how it worked for you and what you’d like to see improved.</p><p>Full Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>ActivityPub embeds now support audios, videos, and up to 4 images.<br>Added a check to make sure we only attempt to embed activity objects, when processing fallback embeds.<br>Add setting to enable or disable how content is tailored for browsers and Fediverse services.<br>Adjusted the plugin’s default behavior based on the caching plugins installed.<br>A guided onboarding flow after plugin activation to help users make key setup decisions and understand Fediverse concepts.<br>Author profiles will cap the amount of extra fields they return to 20, to avoid response size errors in clients.<br>Fediverse Preview in the Editor now also supports video and audio attachments.<br>Guidance for configuring Surge to support ActivityPub caching.<br>Help tab section explaining ActivityPub capabilities on the users page.<br>Profile sections have been moved from the Welcome page to new Dashboard widgets for easier access.<br>The ActivityPub blog news feed to WordPress dashboard.<br>The Outbox now skips invalid items instead of trying to process them for output and encountering an error.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Batch processing jobs can now be scheduled with individual hooks.<br>Better error handling when other servers request Outbox items in the wrong format, and 404 pages now show correctly.<br>Fediverse Previews in the Block Editor now show media items, even if the post has not been published yet.<br>Hide interaction buttons in emails when the Classic Editor is used.<br>Improve compatibility with third-party caching plugins by sending a Vary header.<br>Much more comprehensive plugin documentation in the Help tab of ActivityPub Settings.<br>NodeInfo endpoint response now correctly formats localPosts values.<br>Reactions block heading now uses Core’s heading block with all its customization options.<br>Settings pages are now more mobile-friendly with more space and easier scrolling.<br>The number of images shared to the Fediverse can now be chosen on a per-post basis.<br>Updated default max attachment count to four, creating better-looking gallery grids for posts with 4 or more images.<br>Use a dedicated hook for the “Dismiss Welcome Page Welcome” link.<br>Use FEP-c180 schema for error responses.<br>Use Audio and Video type for Attachments, instead of the very generic Document type.</p><p>Deprecated</p><p>Deprecated rest_activitypub_outbox_query filter in favor of activitypub_rest_outbox_query. Deprecated activitypub_outbox_post action in favor of activitypub_rest_outbox_post.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Broken avatars in the Reactions and Follower block are now replaced with the default avatar.<br>Email notifications for interactions with Brid.gy actors no longer trigger PHP Warnings.<br>Improved support for users from more Fediverse platforms in email notifications.<br>Improved the handling of Shares and Boosts.<br>Issue preventing “Receive reblogs (boosts)” setting from being properly saved.<br>Mention emails will no longer be sent for reply Activities.<br>Prevent accidental follower removal by resetting errors properly.<br>Properly remove retries schedules, with the invalidation of an Outbox-Item.<br>The blog profile can no longer be queried when the blog actor option is disabled.</p><p>Downloads</p><p>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.5.9.0.zip" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.5.9.0.zip"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">downloads.wordpress.org/plugin</span><span class="invisible">/activitypub.5.9.0.zip</span></a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/5.9.0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/5.9.0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/Automattic/wordpres</span><span class="invisible">s-activitypub/releases/tag/5.9.0</span></a></p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="type=&#x27;Article&#x27; attributed_to=None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2025/05/14/5-9-0-easier-onboarding-for-your-fediverse-experience/">See Original Article</a> </small>

<p>This release puts speed and control right at your fingertips. Whether you’re jumping between settings, syncing followers, or handling quotes in real time, version 7.6.0 makes managing your Fediverse presence faster and more intuitive than ever.</p><p>Navigate in a Flash</p><p>Say hello to the quickest way to move around your ActivityPub settings.</p><p>In preparation for WordPress 6.9, which brings the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + K) to the entire wp-admin, the plugin now adds its own commands, giving you instant, keyboard-driven access to your workflows anywhere in WordPress.</p><p>Type “ActivityPub” and you’ll see context-aware commands that adapt to your site setup and user role. Whether you’re managing a blog actor or a user actor, you can open followers and following lists, check blocked actors, jump straight to your settings, or even search and edit extra fields — all without ever leaving the Command Palette.</p><p>Every command includes the ActivityPub icon for easy recognition. Just press Cmd + K or Ctrl + K, start typing, and go — it’s the smoothest way yet to pilot your Fediverse setup.</p><p>Stay in Sync Across the Fediverse</p><p>Your follower lists now stay accurate wherever you connect.<br>With support for Follower Synchronization (FEP-8fcf), the plugin automatically keeps your followers collection in step with other servers — even when things drift out of sync.</p><p>If differences appear, background tasks quietly reconcile them, keeping your lists clean and consistent. The result is a smoother, more reliable experience across the entire Fediverse — no manual fixes required.</p><p>Speed When It Counts</p><p>Quoted posts and follow confirmations now move at the speed of conversation.</p><p>A new immediate Accept dispatch system sends responses as soon as they’re created, instead of waiting for the next scheduled queue.</p><p>That means faster follow confirmations and quicker quote acknowledgments, making interactions feel more natural across the Fediverse. Behind the scenes, those Accept messages go straight to the right inboxes — including mentioned and replied-to users — while a scheduled backup ensures full compatibility with slower servers.</p><p>It’s a smart balance between speed and reliability, helping your posts and follows appear almost instantly.</p><p>Privacy, Your Way</p><p>Want to keep your social graph private? You can now hide your followers and following lists from public view while keeping all relationships intact. Your followers still follow — they’re just hidden when you prefer a little more privacy.</p><p>Full Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>Add bidirectional transforms between reply and embed blocks for improved user experience.<br>Add Command Palette integration for quick navigation to ActivityPub admin pages<br>Added a new ap_object post type and taxonomies for storing and managing incoming ActivityPub objects, with updated handlers<br>Added a privacy option to hide followers and following lists from profiles while keeping follow relationships intact.<br>Added a scheduled task and setting to automatically purge old inbox items, helping maintain site performance and storage control.<br>Added fallback to trigger create handling when updates fail for missing posts or comments, ensuring objects are properly created.<br>Added immediate dispatch for Accept activities to speed up quoted posts while keeping scheduled processing for compatibility with other instances.<br>Added new configuration options to better manage traffic spikes when federating posts, allowing finer control over retry limits, delays, and batch pauses.<br>Added support for FEP-8fcf follower synchronization, improving data consistency across servers with new sync headers, digest checks, and reconciliation tasks.<br>Add LiteSpeed Cache integration to prevent ActivityPub JSON responses from being cached incorrectly. Includes automatic .htaccess rules and Site Health check to ensure proper configuration.<br>Add quote visibility setting for Classic Editor users.<br>Add unified attachment processor for handling ActivityPub media imports from both remote URLs and local files, with automatic media block generation and Classic Editor support.<br>Integrate Federated Reply block with WP.com Reader’s post share functionality, allowing users to reply to ActivityPub posts directly from the Reader.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Added support for FEP-3b86 Activity Intents, extending WebFinger and REST interactions with new Create and Follow intent links.<br>Added support for the latest NodeInfo (FEP-0151), with improved federation details, staff info, and software metadata for better ActivityPub compliance.<br>Extended inbox support for undoing Like, Create, and Announce activities, with refactored undo logic and improved activity persistence.<br>Improved Classic Editor integration by adding better media handling and full test coverage for attachments, permissions, and metadata.<br>Improved delivery of public and follower activities by expanding local recipient handling to include all ActivityPub-capable users and follower collections.<br>Improved inbox performance by batching and deduplicating activities, reducing redundant processing and improving handling during high activity periods.<br>Improved REST API responses with smarter context handling.<br>Improved REST collection pagination by using explicit total item counts for more accurate results.<br>Moved default visibility handling from the server to the editor UI, ensuring consistent and flexible ActivityPub visibility settings across both block and classic editors.<br>Prevented self-announcing by ignoring announces from the blog actor, while still processing announces from user and external actors.<br>Refactored activity handling to support multiple recipients per activity, allowing posts and interactions to be linked to several local users at once.<br>Refactored avatar handling into a new system that stores and manages avatars per remote actor, improving reliability and preparing for future caching support.<br>Refactored the inbox system to use a shared inbox, storing activities once with multiple recipients for improved efficiency and reduced duplication.<br>Reorganize integration loader and move Stream integration into dedicated folder structure.<br>Reply posts: do not display post title before @mentions in posts that are replies to somebody else<br>Simplified configuration by always enabling the shared inbox and removing its separate setting, UI field, and related logic.<br>Simplified inbox storage settings, allowing certain activities (like deletes) to be skipped to reduce unnecessary database use.<br>Simplify follow() API return types to int|WP_Error for better predictability.<br>Updated inbox handling to support multiple users receiving the same activity and improve overall data consistency.<br>Updated mailer hooks to send notifications only when activities are successfully handled, preventing emails for failed events.<br>Update plugin short description to be more user-friendly.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Reply block now properly validates ActivityPub URLs before setting inReplyTo field<br>Added a safeguard to ensure the plugin works correctly even when no post types are selected.<br>Added a safety check to prevent errors when resolving comment author hostnames without a valid IP address.<br>Fixed activity processing to handle QuoteRequest and other edge cases more reliably.<br>Fixed an issue with post content templates to ensure the correct fallback is always applied.<br>Fixed fatal error when transformer Factory receives WP_Error objects.<br>Fixed HTML entity encoding in extra field names when displayed on ActivityPub platforms<br>Fixed typo in example, improve quoting description.<br>Fix Following table error message to display user input instead of empty string when webfinger lookup fails.<br>Fix infinite recursion when storing remote actors with mentions in their bios<br>Fix local inbox delivery to use internal REST API instead of HTTP, enabling local follows and proper boost counting.<br>Fix logic errors in Move handler: remove redundant assignment and fix variable name collision.<br>Fix public key retrieval for GoToSocial profiles with path-based key URLs.<br>Improved actor resolution by prioritizing blog actor detection before remote actor checks and refining home page URL handling.<br>Improved handling of empty fields for better compatibility with Pixelfed and more consistent fallback behavior across actor names, URLs, and related data.<br>Improved hashtag encoding for consistent formatting.<br>Improved Jetpack integration by initializing it during the WordPress startup process.<br>Refactored Mastodon import handling to use consistent array-based data, improving reliability and compatibility across all import scenarios.</p><p>Downloads</p><p>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.7.6.0.zip" rel="nofollow">activitypub.7.6.0.zip</a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/7.6.0" rel="nofollow">tag/7.6.0</a><br>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.7.6.1.zip" rel="nofollow">activitypub.7.6.1.zip</a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/7.6.1" rel="nofollow">tag/7.6.1</a></p><p>Thanks, Crew!</p><p>Big thanks to everyone who contributed code, feedback, and testing to make this release possible. You keep ActivityPub evolving with every version.</p><p>Version 7.6.0 is now live — update today and enjoy lightning-fast navigation, smarter synchronization, and smoother federation! ❤️</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="type=&#x27;Article&#x27; attributed_to=None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2025/11/12/7-6-0-command-sync-go/">See Original Article</a> </small>

<p>This release is mostly made up of behind-the-scenes improvements, but one update you’ll notice right away is the refreshed Followers table. It now looks and feels much more like the standard WordPress admin tables: you can customize it with screen options to hide columns or change how many followers are shown per page, and you can now delete individual followers using inline action links. We also polished the layout by increasing information density and improving the readability of date columns.</p><p>We’ve made migrations easier to kick off by automatically resolving account aliases and saving their ID form. That means you can now paste in WebFinger IDs, profile URLs, etc. and the plugin handles the rest, as long as it resolves to an ActivityPub profile.</p><p>This release also fixes a long-time annoyance: unfederated posts (like those published before the plugin was activated or imported later) will no longer be sent out to followers just because they were updated. For now, we use a simple cutoff for posts older than a month, which should cover the majority of those cases.</p><p>Coming Soon: Following Others!</p><p>Most of the work that went into this release is still invisible, hiding behind a feature flag in Advanced Settings (you can find it by opening Screen Options in the ActivityPub settings screen).</p><p>There’s really no functionality around it yet, beyond following accounts from other instances, as we have yet to start processing incoming posts and adding the ability to interact with them. But if you just can’t wait to show your appreciation for other accounts by following them, go wild!</p><p>Behind the same feature flag, we’ve also added initial beta support for Fediverse Starter Kits. This lets new users follow a set of recommended accounts from a predefined list, following <a href="https://github.com/pixelfed/starter-kits/issues/1" rel="nofollow">the format proposed</a> by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/dansup" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dansup</span></a></span> for Pixelfed. For now, only Actor objects are supporteded, but we’re hoping to expand that over time.</p><p>Full Changelog</p><p>Added</p><p>Added a first version of the Follow form, allowing users to follow other Actors by username or profile link.<br>Added initial support for Fediverse Starter Kits, allowing users to follow recommended accounts from a predefined list.<br>Ensure that all schedulers are registered during every plugin update.<br>Followers and Following list tables now support Columns and Pagination screen options.<br>The featured tags endpoint is now available again for all profiles, showing the most frequently used tags by each user.<br>The following endpoint now returns the actual list of users being followed.</p><p>Changed</p><p>Follower tables now look closer to what other tables in WordPress look like.<br>Improved Account-Aliases handling by internally normalizing input formats.<br>Minor performance improvement when querying posts of various types, by avoiding double queries.<br>Set older unfederated posts to local visibility by default.<br>Step counts for the Welcome checklist now only take into account steps that are added in the Welcome class.<br>Table actions are now faster by using the Custom Post Type ID instead of the remote user URI, thanks to the unified Actor Model.<br>The following tables now more closely match the appearance of other WordPress tables and can be filtered by status.</p><p>Fixed</p><p>Ensure correct visibility handling for Undo and Follow requests<br>Ensure that the Actor-ID is always a URL.<br>Fixed a bug in how follow requests were accepted to ensure they work correctly.<br>Fixed an issue where the number of followers shown didn’t always match the actual follower list.<br>Fixed a PHP error that prevented the Follower overview from loading.<br>Fixed missing avatar class so that CSS styles are correctly applied to ActivityPub avatars on the Dashboard.<br>Fixed potential errors when unrelated requests get caught in double-knocking callback.<br>Improved WebFinger fallback to better guess usernames from profile links.<br>Prevent WordPress from loading all admin notices twice on ActivityPub settings pages.<br>Removed follower dates to avoid confusion, as they may not have accurately reflected the actual follow time.<br>Stop purging Follow activities from the Outbox to allow proper Unfollow (Undo) handling.</p><p>Downloads</p><p>WordPress.org: <a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/activitypub.7.1.0.zip" rel="nofollow">activitypub.7.1.0.zip</a><br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/releases/tag/7.1.0" rel="nofollow">tag/7.1.0</a></p><p>Thank you!</p><p>Big thanks to everyone who contributed code, feedback, testing, or encouragement—this community helps make the fediverse more connected with every release. ❤️</p><p>Update to 7.1.0, try it out, and tell us what you think!</p> <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="type=&#x27;Article&#x27; attributed_to=None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://activitypub.blog/2025/07/23/7-1-0-polishing-tables/">See Original Article</a> </small>