Title: GhostLabs Friendly Skies – Feeds & Embeds for Bluesky Author: GhostLabs Published: November 6, 2026 Last modified: November 6, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=3788720) ![](https://ps.w.org/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/assets/icon.svg?rev=3788720) # GhostLabs Friendly Skies – Feeds & Embeds for Bluesky By [GhostLabs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghostlabs/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ghostlabs-friendly-skies.1.0.1.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/) ## Description Friendly Skies puts Bluesky on your WordPress site as five native blocks. Place them where you want them — in a post, a template part, a sidebar — and they render on your server as ordinary HTML. #### The five blocks * **Post** — paste a Bluesky post URL. Author, text, images, video, quote posts, link cards and engagement counts, rendered as HTML. * **Feed** — a stream of posts, in a List or Grid layout. * **Threaded** — a whole conversation, with reply indentation, a depth limit and a collapse threshold. * **Profile Card** — avatar, banner, bio and stats, in Full, Compact or Minimal styles. * **Follow Button** — a styled link to a profile, with an optional live follower count. #### No account, no app password Everything above reads Bluesky’s public API. There is nothing to connect and no credentials to store — no account, no app password, no key of any kind. The settings screen has one option on it: how long a response from Bluesky is reused before it is fetched again. Everything else a block does is configured on the block itself. #### Rendered on your server, not in your visitor’s browser Every block is server-rendered and cached. Your readers load your HTML from your host. When Bluesky can’t be reached, a block shows the last copy it fetched rather than an empty space. #### Built to be read Contrast meets WCAG AA, every control is reachable from the keyboard, animation respects prefers-reduced-motion, and all output is escaped. None of that is a paid feature. ### Friendly Skies Pro Everything above is free and stays free. Pro adds two things: * **More ways to show other people’s posts** — Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list sources, and the Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker layouts. * **Import from Bluesky** — bring your Bluesky posts into WordPress as real posts or a custom post type, on a schedule, with filters and two import styles. The Theme Native style (the default) writes each post’s text into WordPress; the Bluesky Embed Block style stores a link to the post and shows it from Bluesky. Photos from your own posts are copied into your Media Library, and the first becomes the featured image; photos in reposts stay on Bluesky. Pro is a separate plugin. You download it from your GhostLabs account, upload it, and activate it; it then switches this plugin off. Nothing is copied or migrated, because both editions store their settings in the same place. The FAQ below walks through it. ### External services Friendly Skies contacts one outside service, and never just because the plugin was installed or activated. **Bluesky (bsky.app / public.api.bsky.app)** — every block reads Bluesky’s public API to render what you asked it to show. The request contains the handle, post URL, feed or list you put in the block, and nothing about your site or your visitors. It is made by your server, not by your reader’s browser, and the response is cached. This happens whenever a page containing a block is rendered, and whenever a block is previewed in the block editor (your server renders the preview the same way), if the cache has expired. The Follow button contacts Bluesky only when it is set to show a follower count, and otherwise contacts nothing. Images are fetched from Bluesky itself. Avatars, profile banners, post photos, and link-card and video thumbnails are shown from Bluesky’s own image addresses, so when a page with a block loads, your reader’s browser requests those images from Bluesky, which receives the reader’s IP address, browser details and the site they are on, like any image request. The same is true of your own browser while a block is previewed in the editor. No Bluesky script, iframe or tracking code is added to the page or the editor. Bluesky’s terms of service: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos Bluesky’s privacy policy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy **Links to GhostLabs — not a service.** The plugin links to two GhostLabs sites from wp-admin and the block editor. It never contacts either one: nothing is requested from them in the background, and the plugin sends them nothing. * **https://theghostlab.io** — GhostLabs’ site, including Friendly Skies Pro’s product page. * **https://enter.theghostlab.io/account** — your GhostLabs account, where Friendly Skies Pro is downloaded after you buy it. It is linked from **Settings Friendly Skies Pro**, under **Already own Friendly Skies Pro?**, and opens in a new tab. Following either link is an ordinary visit to that site in your browser. GhostLabs terms of service: https://theghostlab.io/terms-of-service GhostLabs privacy policy: https://theghostlab.io/privacy-policy ### Source code The complete source of this plugin, including the block sources its compiled assets are built from, is published at: https://github.com/theghostlab/wp-ghostlabs-friendly-skies The compiled JavaScript and CSS in this release are readable, not minified. In that repository, pnpm install –frozen-lockfile && pnpm run build rebuilds them. Later releases may ship the same sources minified, which `GHOSTLABS_MINIFY=1 pnpm run build` produces. ## Screenshots [⌊All five blocks on one page.⌉⌊All five blocks on one page.⌉[ All five blocks on one page. [⌊The Threaded block rendering a real conversation, with reply indentation.⌉⌊The Threaded block rendering a real conversation, with reply indentation.⌉[ The Threaded block rendering a real conversation, with reply indentation. [⌊The block inserter, searched for "bluesky".⌉⌊The block inserter, searched for " bluesky".⌉[ The block inserter, searched for “bluesky”. [⌊The Feed block in its List layout, showing one Bluesky account's posts.⌉⌊The Feed block in its List layout, showing one Bluesky account's posts.⌉[ The Feed block in its List layout, showing one Bluesky account’s posts. [⌊The same feed in the Grid layout. Pro adds the Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker layouts, and Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list sources.⌉⌊The same feed in the Grid layout. Pro adds the Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker layouts, and Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list sources.⌉[ The same feed in the Grid layout. Pro adds the Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker layouts, and Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list sources. ## Blocks This plugin provides 5 blocks. * Friendly Skies: Feed Display a Bluesky account’s posts as a list or a grid. * Friendly Skies: Follow Button A styled button linking to a Bluesky profile with optional follower count. * Friendly Skies: Bluesky Post Embed a Bluesky post. * Friendly Skies: Profile Card Display a Bluesky profile card. * Friendly Skies: Threaded Display a Bluesky conversation in threaded form. ## Installation 1. Install through **Plugins Add Plugin**, or upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/ plugins/`. 2. Activate it through the **Plugins** screen. 3. In a post, a page or a template, open the block inserter and search for “bluesky”. Choose one of the five Friendly Skies blocks. 4. Give it what it asks for: a handle for the Feed, Profile Card and Follow Button blocks, or a post URL for the Post and Threaded blocks. There is nothing to connect and no account to sign in to. 5. Optional: **Settings Friendly Skies** sets how long a response from Bluesky is reused before it is fetched again. ## FAQ ### Can Friendly Skies post my WordPress articles to Bluesky? No. Friendly Skies reads from Bluesky and never writes to it — it has no permission to publish on your behalf and no code that could. If you want to announce your posts on Bluesky, look at Autoblue or ATmosphere, which are built for that direction. ### Do I need a Bluesky account? No. The free blocks read public data, so you can display any public account, in threaded form or as a post without connecting anything. ### Does this load anything from Bluesky in my visitor’s browser? Images, yes. Scripts, no. Blocks are rendered on your server and cached, and no Bluesky script, iframe or tracking code is added to the page. The images in a block— avatars, profile banners, post photos, and link-card and video thumbnails — are shown from Bluesky’s own image addresses, so your reader’s browser loads those from Bluesky. ### What happens when Bluesky is down? A block shows the last copy it fetched from Bluesky, for up to a week, and stops asking Bluesky for a couple of minutes at a time, so an outage doesn’t slow every page. If a block has no copy, it shows a short message in its place rather than an empty space, and a Post or Profile Card block adds a link to it on Bluesky. A Follow Button still shows, without its follower count. ### Is this an official Bluesky plugin? No. Friendly Skies is an independent plugin that uses Bluesky’s public API. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bluesky. ### Which layouts and sources are free? The List and Grid layouts, showing any one Bluesky account’s posts. Search, Custom Feed and Bluesky list sources, and the Masonry, Carousel, Highlight and Ticker layouts, are Pro. ### I bought Pro. How do I switch? Friendly Skies Pro is a separate plugin. Once you have bought it: 1. Download it from your GhostLabs account. **Settings Friendly Skies Pro** links there under **Already own Friendly Skies Pro?** 2. Upload it to your site from the Plugins screen, with the **Upload Plugin** button. 3. Activate it, then enter the license key from your receipt email on its **Licenses** tab. When Friendly Skies Pro starts, it deactivates this plugin. Every block on every page keeps working through the switch, because both plugins use the same stored settings and the same cached responses. Pro sets its own cache timings, so the cache duration chosen in this plugin no longer applies. This plugin is left installed but inactive, and you can delete it whenever you like. On a multisite network, a network administrator uploads the plugin. ### Does it work with my theme? Yes. Blocks inherit your theme’s typography and colours where sensible, offer light, dark and system schemes, and are styled with CSS custom properties you can override. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “GhostLabs Friendly Skies – Feeds & Embeds for Bluesky” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ GhostLabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ghostlabs/) [Translate “GhostLabs Friendly Skies – Feeds & Embeds for Bluesky” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ghostlabs-friendly-skies) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.1 * Fixed: a count of one reads in the singular (“1 reply”, “1 follower”, “Show 1 more reply”). * Changed: the cache duration filters are now `ghostlabs_friendly_skies_cache_ttl_{ $type}`. The old `friendly_skies_cache_ttl_{$type}` names still work and are deprecated. #### 1.0.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **1.0.1** * Last updated **7 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 7.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Tags * [atproto](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/atproto/)[bluesky](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bluesky/) [bluesky feed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bluesky-feed/)[embed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/embed/) [social feed](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-feed/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghostlabs-friendly-skies/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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