From cc04a1e7dd794067d998936fab7979719800c731 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Menrath?= Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:03:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improve Readme and Documentation (#65) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reviewed-on: https://code.event-federation.eu/Event-Federation/wordpress-activitypub-event-bridge/pulls/65 Co-authored-by: André Menrath Co-committed-by: André Menrath --- README.md | 12 ++++++++++++ readme.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3462494..416ebe7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ These platforms create public event calendars by pulling in events from various Even platforms that don’t yet fully support events, like [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org), will still receive a detailed, well-composed summary of your event. The Event Federation plugin ensures that users from those platforms are provided with all important information about an event. +### Features for Your WordPress Events and the Fediverse + +**ActivityPub-Enabled Event Sharing:** Your WordPress events are now compatible with the Fediverse, using the ActivityStreams format. This means your events can be easily discovered and followed by users on platforms like Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible services. + +**Automatic Event Summaries:** When your event is shared on the Fediverse, platforms like Mastodon that don't fully support events will display a brief HTML summary of key details — such as the event's title, start time, and location. This ensures that even if someone can't view the full event on their platform, they still get the important info at a glance, with a link to your WordPress event page. + +**Improved Event Discoverability:** Your custom event categories are mapped to a set of default categories used in the Fediverse, helping your events reach a wider audience. This improves the chances that users searching for similar events on other platforms will find yours. + +**Event Reminders for Your Followers:** Often, events are planned well in advance. To keep your followers informed right in time, you can set up reminders that are supposed to trigger the events showing up in their timelines right before the event starts. At the moment this reminder is implemented as a self-boost of your original event post. While this feature may behave differently across various platforms, we are working on a more robust solution that will let you schedule dedicated reminder notes that appear in all followers’ timelines. + ## Installation This plugin depends on the [ActivityPub plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/). Additionally, you need to use one of the supported event plugins. See below. @@ -51,6 +61,8 @@ This plugin depends on the [ActivityPub plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ac * [The Events Calendar](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/) * [VS Event List](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/very-simple-event-list/) * [Events Manager](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/) +* [WP Event Manager](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-manager/) +* [Eventin](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-solution/) ## Configuration diff --git a/readme.txt b/readme.txt index 526cd13..d1c7b0c 100644 --- a/readme.txt +++ b/readme.txt @@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ These platforms create public event calendars by pulling in events from various ![](./.wordpress-org/decentralized-event-calenders.gif) += Features for Your WordPress Events and the Fediverse = + +**ActivityPub-Enabled Event Sharing:** Your WordPress events are now compatible with the Fediverse, using the ActivityStreams format. This means your events can be easily discovered and followed by users on platforms like Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compatible services. + +**Automatic Event Summaries:** When your event is shared on the Fediverse, platforms like Mastodon that don't fully support events will display a brief HTML summary of key details — such as the event's title, start time, and location. This ensures that even if someone can't view the full event on their platform, they still get the important info at a glance, with a link to your WordPress event page. + +**Improved Event Discoverability:** Your custom event categories are mapped to a set of default categories used in the Fediverse, helping your events reach a wider audience. This improves the chances that users searching for similar events on other platforms will find yours. + +**Event Reminders for Your Followers:** Often, events are planned well in advance. To keep your followers informed right in time, you can set up reminders that are supposed to trigger the events showing up in their timelines right before the event starts. At the moment this reminder is implemented as a self-boost of your original event post. While this feature may behave differently across various platforms, we are working on a more robust solution that will let you schedule dedicated reminder notes that appear in all followers’ timelines. + == Installation == This plugin depends on the [ActivityPub plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/). Additionally, you need to use one of the supported event Plugins. @@ -41,6 +51,8 @@ This plugin depends on the [ActivityPub plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ac * [The Events Calendar](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/) * [VS Event List](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/very-simple-event-list/) * [Events Manager](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/) +* [WP Event Manager](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-manager/) +* [Eventin](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-solution/) == Configuration ==