Wordpress plugin(?) to embed short comments

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I have a Wordpress site and I will being writing articles again to it. But, I have an idea to have a page where it acts more like a feed of short thoughts I may have. Consider it like a twitter feed although I wouldn’t have people comment on it or like it.

I thought maybe I could embed a micro.blog feed into it but I don’t even want something that involved.

Does something like this exist?

Thanks.

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Have you looked at WordPress post formats? They’ll require that your theme supports them, but I think they might work as you intend.

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Thanks. I need to do some digging on this.

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Why not use the built-in Posts functionality? Each post can be as long or as short as you want.

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My hope would be not to edit a post. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you are referring to.

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If you do not want to use the WordPress’ editor, there are alternatives like publishing from Ulysses.

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I’m sure I haven’t been clear.

I want the ability to use a simple app where I can jot a simple note and post it on a specific page on my site. Subsequent notes would just be pretended/appended to that same page.

Something like a twitter feed is the best way to describe it.

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If I am understanding correctly, that is how WordPress behaves out of the box.

The homepage of a WordPress site, by default, is the blog posts index or the so called “Posts page”. It is a stream or list of blog posts with the latest being at the top.

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If you want to manage the content outside of Wordpress:

  • Set yourself up on a micropublishing platform, like micro.blog, blot or a mastodon instance.
  • Copy your RSS feed URL from that place.
  • Create a Wordpress page to display your content.
  • Add an RSS block to the page to display your content and paste in your feed URL.
  • Publish the page and visit it. You should see your content and the block on that page will keep up with your new posts.

(I personally would rather create a custom post type for these posts. The CPT UI plugin makes it easy.)

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Thanks. I didn’t know about blot. Pretty fascinating. I think the easiest way is to embed a mastodon feed although that wasn’t my first choice so I was looking for alternatives.

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This is true but it’s not the way I want this to work as I have other posts. I want this to sit on its own page and not be the main content.

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Honestly, you could just make another Wordpress blog and embed the RSS from that, too. Blot is also neat. Lots of ways to get this done.