Your website tells visitors who you are and how to reach you. But what are you up to these days?<\/p>\n\n
That's what a Now page<\/strong> answers: one page \u2013 usually at The idea comes from Derek Sivers<\/a>, who started the first Now page in 2015. Since then, countless personal websites have followed<\/a> his example.<\/p>\n\n Social media captures single moments and lets them disappear in the feed. A Now page shows the big picture \u2013 in one place, on your own website, readable for everyone without an account.<\/p>\n\n The catch: a Now page is only worth something while it's current. Updated by hand, it is outdated within weeks.<\/p>\n\n Now Pages keeps it current for you.<\/strong> It collects what you already share elsewhere, adds the things you do regularly, and turns everything into a readable Now page \u2013 automatically, every hour.<\/p>\n\n Not sure, which source fits? Describe in your own words what you want to show, and AI suggests matching sources \u2013 each one tested before it is offered to you.<\/p>\n\n Use native widgets, elements and blocks to make your Now page look its best.<\/p>\n\n This plugin does not contact any external service on its own. It only does so if you set up a source for one of the services below. Each source is then\nrequested during every import run (by default hourly via WP-Cron) and when you trigger an import manually.<\/p>\n\n Like WordPress itself, every one of these requests sends the address of your website as part of its user agent (e.g. GitHub<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the public activity of the account you enter, so\nyour commits and releases can be shown on your Now Page. The username you\nconfigured is sent to Last.fm<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the tracks you have scrobbled. The username and\nthe API key you configured are sent to Steam<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the games you recently played. The SteamID and the\nAPI key you configured are sent to Goodreads<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the books on one of your shelves via its RSS\nfeed. The numeric user ID and the shelf name you configured are sent to\n www.goodreads.com with every import. No other data from your site is\ntransmitted.\n(Terms of Use<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\n WordPress.org<\/strong> \u2013 used to read your public profile activity via its RSS\nfeed. The username you configured is sent to WordCamp Central<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the public calendar of upcoming\nWordCamps from Meetup<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the public calendar of the group you enter, so\nits events can be shown on your Now Page. The name of the group you\nconfigured is sent to Mastodon<\/strong> \u2013 used to read the public posts of your account via its RSS\nfeed. The request goes to the instance you entered yourself, and only the\naccount name you configured is sent. Terms and privacy policy depend on that\ninstance and can be found there.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n Sources of the type \"Own website\", \"RSS\/Atom feed\" and \"Calendar (ICS)\" request the address you enter yourself. No third-party service is involved.<\/p>\n\n The AI service you connected to WordPress<\/strong> \u2013 only used if you connected one\nunder Settings \u2192 Connectors, and only for two optional features. If you choose\n\"Get advice\" when adding a source, your description and the list of source\ntypes this website offers are sent to that service; no keys, no entries and\nno existing sources are sent. Each proposed source is then requested once to\ncheck that it works, before it is offered to you. If you choose the\nAI-generated format for your Now Page, the texts of the entries to summarize\nare sent to that service. Which service this is, and its terms and privacy\npolicy, depend on the connector you chose. The advice can be switched off\nunder Settings \u2192 Now Pages \u2192 AI.<\/p><\/li>\n The Fediverse<\/strong> \u2013 only used if you installed the plugin\nActivityPub<\/a> and chose what to\nshare under Settings \u2192 Now Pages \u2192 Fediverse. Then a summary of each day or\nweek, or each single entry, is handed to that plugin, which delivers it to the\nservers of the people following your website. Only what visitors can see on\nyour now page is shared, and not before the privacy delay has passed. What has\nreached other servers cannot be taken back reliably: removing an entry asks\nthem to delete it, whether they do is up to them. Terms and privacy policy\ndepend on the servers of your followers. Nothing is shared by default.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n If you use the availability check on a source, the plugin resolves the host of\nthat source's address and opens a connection to it in order to report where a\nproblem occurs. This contacts the same address the source itself uses, and no\ndata from your site is transmitted.<\/p>\n\n The development repository is on GitHub<\/a>. Developers will find several hooks<\/a> there.<\/p>\n\n Each release is only published if it passes:<\/p>\n\n \u2705 WordPress Coding Standards\n\u2705 PHPStan\n\u2705 PHPUnit tests\n\u2705 Smoke and Playwright tests<\/p>\n\n\n No. Your routines, your own entries, any RSS feed or calendar, and your website work without any account. Some services like Last.fm or Steam need a free API key, which the setup asks for.<\/p><\/dd>\n The setup notices it and suggests a free address instead.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. AI is optional and only used if you connected an AI service under Settings \u2192 Connectors. Without it, everything else works the same, and the advice can be switched off under Settings \u2192 Now Pages \u2192 AI.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n Initial release<\/p>\n\n\/now<\/code> \u2013 about what matters in your life at the moment. Training for a half-marathon, hiking every weekend, a new dance class, last week's concert, life with a newborn, planning a wedding. The things you would tell a friend you haven't seen in a year.<\/p>\n\nWhy a Now page and not just social media?<\/h3>\n\n
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[threadi_now_pages_digest]<\/code><\/li>\nExternal services<\/h3>\n\n
NowPages\/1.0.0; https:\/\/example.com<\/code>). Where the services below say that no other data is transmitted, this address is the exception.<\/p>\n\n\n
api.github.com<\/code> with every import, and the personal\naccess token, if you entered one. No other data from your site is\ntransmitted.\n(Terms of Service<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\nws.audioscrobbler.com<\/code> with every\nimport. No other data from your site is transmitted.\n(Terms of Use<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\napi.steampowered.com<\/code> with every import.\nNo other data from your site is transmitted.\n(Steam Web API Terms of Use<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\nprofiles.wordpress.org<\/code> with\nevery import. No other data from your site is transmitted.\n(Terms of Service<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\ncentral.wordcamp.org\/calendar.ics<\/code>. Only the request itself\nis sent; no personal data is transmitted.\n(Terms of Service<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\nwww.meetup.com<\/code> with every import. No other data\nfrom your site is transmitted.\n(Terms of Service<\/a>,\nPrivacy Policy<\/a>)<\/p><\/li>\n\n
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Do I need any accounts or API keys?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What if \/now is already taken on my website?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I need AI?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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