{"id":22106,"date":"2026-04-29T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=22106"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:49:47","slug":"wordpress-com-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wordpress-com-social\/","title":{"rendered":"wordpress.com\/social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At WordPress.com, we believe short thoughts deserve a real home. Today we\u2019re introducing a new theme built for quick posts, replies, and reblogs: the kind of writing that lives somewhere between a tweet and a blog post, on a site that\u2019s entirely yours.<\/p>\n<cite>from: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/a-new-theme-for-short-form-blogging-on-wordpress-com\/\">A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com \u2013 WordPress.com News<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A new setup on wordpress.com with front end posting, 500 char limit in their editor, but you can go past that if you use an <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/2026\/04\/29\/165945.html#a173219\">alternative editor<\/a>, WordLand for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not clear to me if the features go with the theme, or there is a plugin I can&#8217;t see at work. I&#8217;ve only got a free WordPress.com account. It looks like you could change the theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it would be interesting to see this on self hosted WordPress sites. I did  experiment with a telex <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/telex-ai-mobile-post-creator\/\">block that gave simple short form posting<\/a>. Not quite in a popup, but could be useful on mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: Manton has some thoughts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manton.org\/2026\/04\/29\/wordpress-shortform-interface.html\">Manton Reece &#8211; WordPress short-form interface<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new setup on wordpress.com with front end posting.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear to me if the features go with the theme, or there is a plugin I can&#8217;t see at work. I&#8217;ve only got a free WordPress.com account. <\/p>\n<p>Of course it would be interesting to see this on self hosted WordPress sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/116489536149639884","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3mknrvztk2e2m"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953],"tags":[543,1456,643,582,11],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-dave-winer","8":"tag-manton-reece","9":"tag-microblogging","10":"tag-social-media","11":"tag-wordpress","12":"kind-article","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5Ky","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22106"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22113,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106\/revisions\/22113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22106"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=22106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}