Title: Technical docs?
Last modified: September 20, 2025

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# Technical docs?

 *  Resolved [joxe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joxe/)
 * (@joxe)
 * [6 months, 4 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/)
 * Hello, I’m still stuck with [this](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/federated-replies-not-reaching-the-blog/),
   when people replies to my posts on mastodon, those federated answers do not reach
   the blog comment system. I’m talking with my hosting support and we suspect the
   problem is related to the hosting security restrictions. They are asking me for
   more technical detail, but this issues tech level is by far beyond my knowledge.
 * So I’m guessing if there’s any kind of technical documentation that my hosting
   tech staff could access to learn more about how the plugin interacts with other
   fedi servers and what the hosting level security settings should ideally be…
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [IndieWeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indieweb/)
 * (@indieweb)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18654448)
 * Hey [@joxe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joxe/) 👋
 * here are some technical docs:
    - [https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/docs](https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/tree/trunk/docs)
    - [https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/wiki](https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/wiki)
 * But if it might be on hosting level, it might be a mod-sec issue because of POST
   requests with a `application/activity+json` Content-Type/Accept header.
 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18654451)
 * Ooops I answered with the wrong account 🫣
 *  Thread Starter [joxe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joxe/)
 * (@joxe)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18654491)
 * Ups! XD
 * Thanks for the info, as always!
 * Anyway, for the records, we noticed just yesterday, after weeks of tampering 
   with the hosting security rules, that the problem was caused by a captcha plugin(
   [ALTCHA](https://wordpress.org/plugins/altcha-spam-protection/)) that was blocking
   fedi <> blog communication. I thought the info might be interesting, I imagine
   Captcha and spam preventing plugins will easily disrupt communication with fedi
   responses…
 * Greetings!
 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [4 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18737724)
 * Oh, I think I have not read your initial post carefully enough! Have you tried
   to deactivate the captcha plugin? is it working without?
 *  Thread Starter [joxe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joxe/)
 * (@joxe)
 * [4 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18737914)
 * Hahaha! 😅 Yes I disabled the offending plugin once I found out, and now everything
   seems ti be running flawlessly. Thank you!
    -  This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by [joxe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joxe/).
 *  Plugin Author [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * (@pfefferle)
 * [4 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18737931)
 * Nice! And sorry for missing that (very important) detail in the first place 🫣
 * Happy that it works now 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Matthias Pfefferle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pfefferle/)
 * Last activity: [4 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/technical-docs-2/#post-18737931)
 * Status: resolved