Diasposter

Diasposter posts to Diaspora whenever you hit the "Publish" button. It can import Disapora comments to your original WordPress posts. It even uploads your WordPress post images as native Diaspora photos. Transform your WordPress website into a back-end for Diaspora. Create original posts using WordPress, but publish them to Diaspora. Synchronize with your Diaspora comments. Always have a portable copy (a running backup) of all your original content, plus its Diaspora discussion thread. Diasposter implements a simple API to keep posts in sync as much as possible; when you delete your WordPress post, your Diaspora post is removed, too. Comments on your Diaspora posts appear on your WordPress posts. Deleting a comment from your WordPress post deletes it from your Diaspora post, too. Featured images (aka "post thumbnails") and other photos in your WordPress media library can be uploaded directly into Diaspora posts to be hosted on your pod. Diasposter is very lightweight. It just requires you to connect to your Diaspora account from the plugin options screen. After that, you're ready to cross-post!

• Secure: Unlike many other Diaspora tools, Diasposter never writes your login cookie to disk, strictly enforces encrypted connections between your blog and your Diaspora pod, and encrypts your password inside WordPress, so your Diaspora access credentials are kept as safe as you keep your WordPress database. This is especially important on Shared Hosting plans where many other customers have access to your server's filesystem!
• Easy to use: Seamlessly translates WordPress formatting to beautiful Diaspora posts, with full support for post formats, featured images, post titles, automatic and manual excerpts, tags, custom post types, and more.
• Feature-rich: Numerous additional options let you provide custom linkbacks, broadcast your Diaspora post on any social media services integrated with your pod (like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and WordPress), set global preferences and per-post settings, and more.

Diasposter makes use of Post Formats to automatically choose the most appropriate formatting for your Diaspora post. This means:

• WordPress's Link post format becomes a Diaspora post whose title is a link to the first link in your post.
• WordPress's Image and Gallery post formats become Diaspora posts wherein each <img> in your post is uploaded directly into your Diaspora post, making a beautiful slideshow on Diaspora.
• WordPress's Standard, Aside, and Status post formats are crossposted exactly as you enter them. (They are left untouched.)

Other options enable tweaking additional metadata from your WordPres entry (notably tags and geo-location data), and more. Diasposter is also IndieWeb-friendly, with built-in support for the rel-syndication pattern. Donations for my WordPress plugins make up a chunk of my income. If you continue to enjoy this plugin, please consider making a donation. :) Thank you for your support!

Servers no longer serve, they possess. We should call them possessors.

--Ward Cunningham Learn more about how you can use this plugin to own your own data in conjunction with the "Bring Your Own Content" self-hosted Web publishing virtual appliance.

1. Download the plugin file.
2. Unzip the file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Go to your WordPress administration panel and activate the plugin.
4. Go to Diasposter Settings (from the Settings menu) and either create or enter your Diaspora account settings. Then click "Save Changes."
5. Start posting!!!

See also the Screenshots section for a visual walk through of this process. Installation notes and troubleshooting Diasposter makes use of the cURL PHP extension and expects PHP 5.3 or greater. It's also possible that your system administrator will apply updates to one or more of the core system packages this plugin uses without your knowledge. If this happens, and the updated packages contain backward-incompatible changes, the plugin may begin to issue errors. Should this occur, please file a bug report on the Diasposter project's issue tracker.

Maintaining this plugin is a labor of love. However, if you like it, please consider making a donation for your use of the plugin or, better yet, contributing directly to my's Cyberbusking fund. (Publishing royalties ain't exactly the lucrative income it used to be, y'know?) Your support is appreciated! Developer reference Diasposter provides the following hooks for plugin and theme authors: Filters

• diasposter_save_post_types - Filter an array of custom post type names to process when Diasposter is invoked in the save_post WordPress action.
• diasposter_meta_box_post_types - Filter an array of custom post type names for which to show the Diasposter post editing meta box.
• diasposter_prepared_post - Filter the $diaspora_body string immediately before it gets crossposted to Diaspora.
• diasposter_services_array - Filter the array of configured service integrations. Adding values like facebook to this array will cause Diasposter to include facebook in its JSON request to the Diaspora pod in the services field.

Version 0.1.9

• Bugfix: Fix failed log in attempts on some Diaspora pods.
• Usability:
• The currently connected Diaspora user account name is now shown on the settings screen.
• Error messages for certain issues that caused silent failures are now reported to user.
• Admin notices are now user-dismissible.
• Compatible with WordPress 4.2.2.

Version 0.1.8

• Feature: Support rel-syndication IndieWeb pattern as implemented by the recommended Syndication Links plugin.
• rel-syndication is an IndieWeb best practice recommendation that provides a way to automatically link to crossposted copies (called "POSSE'd copies" in the jargon) of your posts to improve the discoverability and usability of your posts. For Diasposter's rel-syndication to work, you must also install a compatible WordPress syndication links plugin, such as the Syndication Links plugin, but the absence of such a plugin will not cause any problems, either.

Version 0.1.7

• Feature: "Link" post formats are now supported. When you cross-post a link post, the first hyperlink (<a href="..."> element) in your post will be used as the cross-posted post's link and title.
• Usability: New Dutch (nl_NL) translation available. (Thanks, André Koot!)
• Want Diasposter in your language? Join a Diasposter translation team!

Version 0.1.6

• Feature: "Image" and "Gallery" post formats now automatically detect <img> tags in WordPress post content and directly upload the images themselves to your Diaspora* post. This makes it easy to create beautiful photoset posts on Diaspora simply by inserting images into your WordPress post.

Version 0.1.5

• Bugfix: Improved comment synchronization.
• Sync'ed comments are now stored as HTML as WordPress expects, not Markdown.
• Fixed a bug that caused only one comment to be sync'ed per sync subroutine invocation.

Version 0.1.4

• Feature: Comment synchronization automatically detects new comments on your crossposted entries and copies them back to your WordPress post.
• If you delete a comment on your WordPress post that was originally posted on your Diaspora cross-post, the comment is also deleted from your Diaspora post.
• This feature is experimental. It uses a "lazy Salmon-like detection" scheme and is not yet fully tested. Please backup your WordPress database before you enable this feature.

Version 0.1.3

• Feature: WordPress Featured Images (aka "post thumbnails") now become Diaspora photos. Simply set a Featured Image in your WordPress post to upload it as an image and associate it with your Diaspora post.
• Usability: Per-post settings now remember their value in between editing different post drafts.

Version 0.1.2

• Feature: Diaspora* pod settings are now cached for ten minutes by default. Optionally, you can configure how long to keep the cache for in the plugin options.
• Bugfix: Diasposter no longer shows warnings when no service integrations are configured for your account on your Diaspora* pod.

Version 0.1.1

• Feature: Post location sharing can send WordPress geodata metadata to Diaspora*. Toggle this on or off for each post by using the new "Send post location?" option.
• Feature: Service integrations for Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress, and Facebook let you control the auto-post for services you have connected to from your Diaspora* pod.

Verson 0.1

• Initial release.