WordPress/Examples

IndieWeb Examples

Below is a list of active (or semi-active) Indieweb community members using WordPress on their own personal sites. You might find them on web chat, Slack, IRC, or Matrix (potentially in the #Indieweb-WordPress channel) to ask about their experience (or for help).

• Matthew Mullenweg (creator/founder, originally at photomatt.net, now at http://ma.tt) continuously since project start! (selfdogfood)

•  Matthias Pfefferle on notizblog.org with:
  • IndieAuth
  • WebMentions (selfdogfooding)
  • Semantic Linkbacks (selfdogfooding)

• Ryan Barrett (2014 SF) on snarfed.org

• Johannes Ernst (2013) on upon2020.com/blog (full posts) and upon2020.com/banter (short banter) both with
  • Social plugin for POSSE to Twitter and Facebook

• Ashton McAllan on Acegiak.net
  • Whisperfollow to aggregate and respond to feeds
  • IndieWeb Taxonomy for post types
  • SemPress theme
  • Modified microblog poster for POSSE

• David Shanske on david.shanske.com
  • Child of mf2_s theme in live use (selfdogfooding)
  • Indieweb Post Kinds to add context to posts (selfdogfooding)
  • Syndication Links to add syndication and rel-me links (selfdogfooding)
  • Simple Location to add location awareness to posts. (selfdogfooding)
  • Social Network Auto Poster for POSSE

• Chris Aldrich on http://www.BoffoSocko.com (and several others) with:
  • Custom child theme of TwentyFifteen (selfdogfooding)
  • SNAP for POSSE to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, Flipboard, Instagram
  • PESOS of Instagram with location via DsgnWrks Instagram Importer (previously with OwnYourGram)
  • Previously used PressForward as a built-in reader and for creating read posts
  • I've tried almost every Indieweb plugin out there (and broken most in one way or another) and often contribute documentation

• Andy Sylvester on andysylvester.com

• Lillian Karabaic

• Amanda Rush (2017) on arush.io/

• Tom

• Chris McLeod on mrkapowski.com/, since 2018
  • Custom theme (in development for public release)
  • Bridgy for POSSE of certain posts to Twitter
  • Manual cross-post to Instagram (posting to own site first)
  • Using most of the IndieWeb plugins.

• Xavier Roy

• Frank Meeuwsen indicated that he moved to WordPress from Jekyll on 2019-02-28

• Colin Tedford on colintedford.com since 2007 (wants to switch to something more static but it'll be a while).

• Scott Kingery long posts on techlifeweb.com more social blurts, quick links and checkins on techlifeweb.com/social

• Chris Beckstrom on chrisbeckstrom.com using a highly-modified SemPress theme

• John Johnston

• Stephen Pieper

• User:Cambridgeport90.org, currently using Wordpress for her main site at Kat's blog with the default Autonomie theme. Using all of the Indieweb plugins. Posts are combined for now into this single site.

• Dr. Matt Lee -- using it for my blog -- https://blog.mat.tl/

Other independents using WordPress on their primary site

• Christian Crumlish
• Stephen Paul Weber
• Paul Tibbetts Source Code
• Glenn Rice
• Dan Gillmor
• Colin Walker
• Richard MacManus
• Bill Bennett
• Kriselda Gray (EarthboundValkyrie)
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Using on one of their sites

People using WordPress on a secondary site.

• Erin Jo Richey on Flat Frog Blog

• Christophe Ducamp on christopheducamp.com/b - testing WP plugins (research in progress - TBC - 2013-04-15).
  • URL Shortener via WP-Hum - activated since July 2012, ex. http://xtof.me/blog/b/405
  • Currently testing POSSE research in progress with 2 plugins activated simultaneously
    • (JetPack module) : example w UI
    • SharePress (FB pages broadcasting and twitter. example w UI). schedule POSSE. Short-url restricted to bit.ly.

• Crystal Beasley on skinnywhitegirl.com/blog/
  • Has moved her primary domain/identity over to Crystalbeasley.com which is statically generated.

Past Examples

Folks have opted to switch away from WordPress for various reasons (e.g. problems noted above). They seem to switch to one of three options, one indieweb, and two silo.

• static site generator or some other IndieWeb project
• silo: WordPress.com hosting service (see below)
• other silo: e.g. Tumblr (others?)

Switched to another project

There are many folks with personal sites that have kept their personal site and webhost, but switched away from WordPress to another solution, e.g. typically a static site generator:

• Aaron Parecki switched from WordPress for his blog to using p3k to post articles on Aaronparecki.com

• 2013-11-10 Julie Pagano to Middleman (http://middlemanapp.com/) : http://juliepagano.com/blog/2013/11/10/site-redesign-using-middleman/

• Peter Molnar used WordPress on petermolnar.eu from 2007-2016 before moving to a static site generator.

Many others have switched to Jekyll or are in the process of doing so, e.g.:

• Crystal Beasley - per recent (2013-11) conversation on IRC

• Will Norris on willnorris.com (2005 - July 2014) with:
  • URL Shortener via WP-Hum (selfdogfooding)

• Joseph Boyle (down as of 2013-10-25)

• Manton Reece was using WordPress on his primary site for several years prior to building micro.blog and then transferring his data there.

• Austin King (2013) on ozten.com/psto/ (site no longer resolves in early 2020)

• Shane Hudson (2013 UK) on shanehudson.net
  • Currently (Jan 2014) using built in post formats to add bookmarks/links privately, experimenting with making these public (as well as an app to post them easier) as well as POSSE'ing tweets and hopefully photos etc too.
  • Migrated site to Craft CMS

• Greg Baker on gnb.io
  • Child of Hyalite in use (selfdogfooding)
  • Indieweb plugins used, together with post formats, Zapier and others.
  • Work in progress, full outline here.
  • Site no longer resolves as of early 2020

• Kimberly Hirsh - migrated to micro.blog in late 2019

• Folks that were on WordPress that have moved to Tumblr
  • Micki Krimmel
  • ...

• others beforehand ...

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