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ActivityPub for WordPress

Turn a WordPress blog into a fediverse actor

Social Networks ★ 584 stars Easy setup MIT

The ActivityPub plugin lets a self-hosted WordPress site federate with the fediverse, so people can follow blog posts from Mastodon and other ActivityPub software. It also delivers comments back as replies.

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Key features

  • Federates WordPress posts
  • Follow blogs from Mastodon
  • Comments as replies
  • Official Automattic plugin

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in PHP
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM

Is ActivityPub for WordPress secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for ActivityPub for WordPress's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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