Posts don’t show on mastodon – how to debug

Resolved zjuul
(@zjuul)

2 years, 2 months ago
Hi, I have the latest WP, ActivityPub installed, and everything seems to work well. I follow my own profile, the followers show up in the backend.

But.. when I post on my blog, the feeds on mastodon remain empty.

The profile says: “134 posts” – so I assume it reads the older ones.

“Older posts from other servers are not displayed. Browse more on the original profile” – which links to https://www.zjuul.net/@blog – which then redirects to the home page.

Example profile links
- https://mastodon.social/@blog@www.zjuul.net
- https://masto.measure.chat/@blog@www.zjuul.net
How to debug this to see where the problem is?

config: I use a “blog” profile, and the profile url is https://www.zjuul.net/@blog

It is a multisite install, with domain mapping.
- this works: https://www.zjuul.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:blog@www.zjuul.net
- this too (new post is there): https://www.zjuul.net/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/users/0/outbox
Any other places to look? Thanks!

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Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

2 years, 2 months ago

Sorry, that I have to say that, but it actually works as expected. Sadly Mastodon does not import old posts, they simply take the number of posts from the outbox counter.

The posts are only displayed from the moment someone follows you.

You could publish old posts if you put the permalink of that post into the search of mastodon, then it will import this post.

Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

2 years, 2 months ago

Oh, I missed reading “But… when I post on my blog, the feeds on Mastodon stay empty.” Have you posted something after installing the plugin or after someone followed your profile. The plugin only sends posts to followers, so if there are no, it will not send anything.

To check if it tries to federated posts, you can check the wp-cron cue, I use https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/ for that.
Thread Starter zjuul
(@zjuul)

2 years, 2 months ago
@matthias Ah.. I forgot to mention:

I set up all this days ago (including following myself) – but my new post is not showing up.

And behold.. the demo effect: I post a test blog and it’s there immediately.

And suddenly the post from earlier today showed up, too.

Must have been cache?

Or maybe because I updated shortly after the publishing of the post to correct a typo.. who knows.

Anyway: thanks! Good to see it’s working, awesome work!
- This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by zjuul.
Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle
(@pfefferle)

2 years, 2 months ago

I would not say it is a cache thing. The plugin uses the wp-cron to not slow down publishing, maybe the cron was not triggered properly? Do you use the default setup, a systems cron or both?

https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/hooking-wp-cron-into-the-system-task-scheduler/
Thread Starter zjuul
(@zjuul)

2 years, 2 months ago
@matthias ooh.. standard I think.

I’m looking at wp-crontrol queue, and don’t see anything wrt activitypub. When I publish a test post, the Mastodon profile urls update instantly now.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by zjuul.

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