About this plugin
This plugin provides your website with Gutenberg blocks including a configurable profile banner (followers, posts and followings counts, banner, avatar, and name) and a list of your latest posts on BlueSky.
A Shortcodes ( [bluesky_profile] and [bluesky_last_posts] ) and Widgets are given as well for older sites.
An option is available for the syndication of your posts for BlueSky Social. This syndication allows you to display BlueSky discussions directly in the comment section of your WordPress posts. (it’s an option)
Some other included features:
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Configurable Bluesky Profile Card
- Choose to display a banner, or not
- Choose to display an avatar, or not
- Choose to display your bio, or not
- Choose to display your counter, or not
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Embedded posts in the feed
- Youtube URL detection
- Embedded video
- Quote embedded
- Link reference (embedded card with image)
- Starterpack display
- Gallery of images (displaying an accessible lightbox)
- Multiple available layouts
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Auto-post new WordPress posts on BlueSky
- Preview the post for BlueSky on WordPress pre-post checks panel (if activated)
- Edit the future BlueSky post right in the Gutenberg editor’s sidebar if needed.
- Syndication can be triggered based on post categories: associate one or multiple account to one or multiple categories. (Include/exclude mechanics)
- You have a “stop all syndication” option, just in case.
- In case you unlink, or wanna link former posts, a “Link to Bluesky” feature is available right from the post editor.
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Make BlueSky discussions for syndicated posts visible
- Activate the “Discussions” option to display Bluesky discussion even if the comment section of your posts is deactivated.
- Choose to display only first level, or multi-level comments.
- Choose between collasped or visible multi-level comments.
- Choose to include photos, videos and attachments.
- Important: people you mute or block on Bluesky won’t be visible in the discussions.
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Encrypted App Password for a more secure connection.
- Cache for a more performant display and avoid BlueSky request limitations.
- Asynchronous load of data from BlueSky for a better UX.
- Dark/Light mode (by default system/user choice).
- Custom font sizing for both blocks/shortcodes.
Available Languages
- Arabic
- Chinese (traditional & simplified)
- English (default)
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Spanish
- Thai
- Turkish
Shortcode usage
In the shortcodes below, the complete list of attributes is displayed. You can omit them if you want, as the default values or the global values will be used if you omit them.
Display your profile card
[bluesky_profile theme="system" layout="default" styleclass="" displaybanner="true" displayavatar="true" displaycounters="true" displaybio="true" account_id=""]
- theme: displays a different set of colors supporting dark and light modes (values: system, light, dark )
- layout: choose the profile card layout (values: default, compact )
- styleclass: accept any string class-valid to customise the class attribute
- displaybanner: either you want to display your profile banner image or not (values: true, false )
- displayavatar: either you want to display your profile avatar or not (values: true, false )
- displaycounters: either you want to display your followers, following and posts, or not (values: true, false )
- displaybio: either you want to display your profile description or not (values: true, false )
- account_id: the UUID of a specific account to display. Leave empty to use the active account (multi-account feature)
Display the last posts
[bluesky_last_posts displayembeds="true" theme="system" noreplies="true" noreposts="true" numberofposts="5" layout="" account_id=""]
- displayembeds: either you want to display only your posts, or include the embeds too (values: true, false )
- noreplies: either you want to hide your replies, or include them in your feed (values: true, false )
- noreposts: either you want to hide your reposts, or include them in your feed (values: true, false )
- nocounters – Whether to hide like, repost, reply, and quote counters (value: true, false )
- theme: displays a different set of colors supporting dark and light modes (values: system, light, dark )
- numberofposts: any number of posts to display. (advice, don’t set a too high value)
- layout: override the default feed layout (values: default, layout_2 or compact ). Leave empty to use the global setting
- account_id: the UUID of a specific account to display. Leave empty to use the active account (multi-account feature)
Notes
This plugin is open source and licensed under GPLv2 or later. Contributions are welcome via GitHub.
Known Bugs & Improvements
Known Bugs
- On the Gutenberg editor, the blocks are not clickable. You need to open the block layers panel to select them. I’m working on it.
Planned Improvements
Follow the roadmap on Github Project.