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Mastodon Social Icons

by triumvirate on WordPress.org

This plugin replaces footer menu URLs of the top-100 (by user) Mastodon domains (as of plugin publication) with the Mastodon logo SVG via the social i …

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mastodon.social link in footer is replaced with Mastodon icon! (Mastodon.com is not, which is correct behavior).

mastodon.social link in footer is replaced with Mastodon icon! (Mastodon.com is not, which is correct behavior).

It’s aesthetically pleasing to link WordPress sites to one’s Mastodon account by adding a link in the site footer menu to one’s Mastodon profile that’s replaced with the “M” mastodon trunk/word balloon-logo.

Without this plugin, however, this functionality is not expected to work for any Mastodon domains until 6.2, and at that point, only the top-10-by-volume Mastodon domains.

This plugin allows replacing the top-100 (by user) Mastodon domains (as of plugin publication) with the Mastodon logo SVG via this mechanism:

the text label you provide will be hidden, and an icon will be shown in its place.

Current Limitations

  1. Currently only works with twenty-twenty-one theme and later
  2. Non-top-100 domains were queried at plugin publishing time (2023-02-18) from instances.social: 'https://instances.social/api/1.0/instances/list?count=0&include_closed=true&include_down=false&sort_by=users&sort_order=desc

I (or anyone else) can work to address these limitations if there is interest.

Example

See here for the example with screenshots inline.

1. Set up Theme: Twenty Twenty-One

2 Create a Secondary Menu

3 Add custom links

4 Before

The mastodon.com logo is (erroneously, as it is not a true mastodon domain) is replaced by the svg, but a mastodon.social link is not.

5 After

Support

Open an issue on github.

Active installations20+
Weekly downloads
10+11.11%
Version0.1.0
Last updated2/27/2023
WordPress version5.3
Tested up to6.1.7
PHP version5.6
Tags
mastodonsocialSVG