Are Drupal 7 modules directly compatible with Backdrop? This looks like a cool project for hacking on at the upcoming <a href="indieweb.org">IndieWebCamp</a> in Santa Monica in <a href="https://indieweb.org/2016/LA">November</a>...

Like you, I usually don't worry too much about SEO either, particularly for my personal site.

The IndieWeb community has recently been moving domains from IndieWebCamp.com to IndieWeb.org, so there have been some relatively big changes there which have thrown some functionality off. In particular, one used to be able to jump into the chat directly from the web-based chat logs, but that has been turned off (temporarily, I hope). If you don't want to set up an IRC client [details and suggestions are given at https://indieweb.org/IRC], you can also use the more friendly Slack channel as well since the IRC chat is bridged to Slack. Just click on the link on the IRC page to sign up. (I've never been a big IRC fan either, and the fewer chat clients, text messengers, etc. I can have, all the better!)

If you've managed to get WordPress installed, then you've already done the lion's share of the hard work! Most of the rest of "IndieWeb-ification" is done with simple plugins and minimal amounts of configuration. There shouldn't be anything too much more difficult (unless you want to get your hands dirty and do some hardcore coding.)

My main www.boffosocko.com site is a WordPress install, which I usually use for longer form (more interesting??) posts. stream.boffosocko.com is more quick hit content: status updates, checkins, and some photos. I also find it's a bit easier to use on my cell phone than WordPress is. It's built on the Known platform which was built from the ground up in part to support IndieWeb protocols.

If you'd like to join a small group of us in Pasadena on Wednesday night, I'm walking a few new people through some IndieWeb stuff: https://indieweb.org/events/2016-07-27-homebrew-website-club (Facebook copy at https://www.facebook.com/events/1176904038997597/). We can help you walk through the process on your site if you'd like.

I hope to have monthly meetings through the end of the year in the LA area, and there's a bigger IndieWebCamp in Santa Monica in November (https://indieweb.org/2016/LA)

Loqi barfs up useless retweet title in IRC · Issue #14 · kylewm/KnownReactions https://github.com/kylewm/KnownReactions/issues/14

Last night I'd retweeted something that made total sense to me and looks reasonable when viewed directly on my site http://stream.boffosocko.com/2016/repost-of-kevin-markss-tweet-1e9b300e28, but it may be problematic

I imagine that I could do a better job giving a "description" of the tweet rather than relying on the default presented, which would also help in creating a more descriptive URL as well.

The bigger issue is that Loqi (and presumably other sources like feed readers) punt it when reposting from http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-06-15/line/1466059495504 based on cweiske's reaction following it. I'd view it as a bigger issue for Loqi, but in some part it's a UX issue that those using KnownReactions should be aware of.

Maybe using the UI phrase "title" instead of "description" may be more apt and would prompt people to do better than the default.

Alternately, and because the functionally is generally used for Retweets, which are such short pieces of content, I look at the reposted content in the "body" as the technical "title" which may also be more useful as the permalink/URL as well.

Andreas, I'm pretty sure my experiment with OwnYourGram was well after I updated to 0.9.2. I never worked on it further to get brid.gy to push the comments/likes back to my Known install, but did spend some time to get OwnYourGram to work with WordPress and eventually have brid.gy backfeed the comments/likes from Instagram.

Ultimately I decided for data portability reasons that it was far easier (and prettier) to import all of my old instagram posts into my WordPress install where I know the code base a bit better. I just finished importing all of my instagram activity to my main site over the weekend, but it'll take some more work to get them to display the way I want them to along with the correct microformats2 markup.

For Instagram/Known, if I recall, you have to correctly specify either http or https properly to make sure the two link up properly, which was an early problem I had. I also had issues with trying to use two sites simultaneously, but apparently putting the URLS of your sites into your bio on instagram works just fine for authentication.

I don't think I went so far as to register my instagram account for known with brid.gy, but I could dig back into it if you need some help. I need to document some of the process for some user manual work I've promised to do for Known.

You could also try the #indieweb IRC channel: https://indiewebcamp.com/IRC

Excerpt not copying properly · Issue #7 · meitar/wp-crosspost https://github.com/meitar/wp-crosspost/issues/7

When I do this:
Post something on my self-hosted WP blog without anything in the "Excerpt" field

This happens:
The crosspost that appears on WordPress.com seems to have cut and pasted a portion of the body of the original along with the notice about the original post into the excerpt field.

Complicating things somewhat is that I'm using the 2016 theme which utilizes the excerpt as a magazine-like "kicker" or subtitle, so it publishes the excerpt as a teaser line between the title of the post and the traditional body of the post. With most themes this "bug" isn't as problematic as the excerpt is used as metadata, but in my case it's publishing content in a duplicative fashion.

Example:
Original post: http://boffosocko.com/2016/06/04/55673397/
Syndicated post: https://chrisaldrich.wordpress.com/2016/06/04/55673397/

As an aside, given your personal philosophy and the motivation behind this particular plugin and your tumblr crossposter, if you're not already aware of them, I thought I'd mention the [IndieWeb movement](http://indiewebcamp.com) which is firmly behind people owning their own data (as opposed to corporate silos like Facebook, Twitter, et. al. owning it) as well as their online identities. (It's also part of the reason I've been using this particular plugin). I suspect you'll appreciate their mission and potentially be able to use portions of their opensource code and related work.

@Bradamante in re: #IndieWeb life http://etherpad.indiewebcamp.com/indieweb-life with regard to Twitter from this afternoon

I keep a primary site at www.boffosocko.com for longform and usually more substantive (whatever this means...) content while I use the Known platform through www.stream.boffosocko.com for shorter form content, checkins, status updates (Twitter), etc. Keeping my Twitter content is easier here because I don't expect any/many to subscribe to my stream site, so I'm not worried about spamming the world that may want to follow the more substantive stuff. I've tried to make using twitter with my stream as easy as possible by using a simple bookmarklet on desktop () and a simple sharing tool on mobile (http://indiewebcamp.com/Posting_from_mobile_devices)

One day, perhaps when I've over-configured my WordPress install to do things exactly the way I want them, perhaps I'll post it all to one site, but for now, it seems to work pretty well for me without being onerous for my (percieved) audience (hi mom!) :)

Fortunately there's a million ways to do all of this, you just have to find what works best for you.

Updated and works wonderfully! Thanks. (I was worried it would be worse as I've heard from colleagues that IG has been pulling developer API access recently.)

Given the philosophy behind this plugin and your Twitter plugin, I thought I'd take a moment to mention http://www.indiewebcamp.com which is a developer movement to assist people in owning all of their own content/data rather than relying on corporate silos/walled gardens. Your plugins sit squarely in this philosophical area.

There is a suite of related plugins (see http://indiewebcamp.com/wordpress, http://indiewebcamp.com/WordPress/Plugins, and http://indiewebcamp.com/Getting_Started_on_WordPress) that do additional types of similar data import and improved functionality. One particular function you (and your users) may appreciate is some of the plugins in combination with a service at http://brid.gy allow one to backport comments and likes from instagram, twitter, facebook, and google+ onto one's associated post on WordPress. As an example see the comments on: http://boffosocko.com/2016/05/24/55672775/. The combination of the your plugin and some of these allow users to own all of their instagram activity outright.

If you're interested and free this weekend, they're streaming a big annual meeting from Portland http://indiewebcamp.com/2016.

Additionally, if you hadn't seen it yet, here's some details I put together a while back for doing similar types of posts on mobile using "share" functionality as opposed to bookmarklets on desktop: http://indiewebcamp.com/Posting_from_mobile_devices