David, Congrats on officially putting your plugins up on Wordpress!
My WP skills are certainly below that of yours, but I applaud you for making the effort on behalf of the IndieWeb. I'm happy to help test/bang on your plugins and give feedback, (and If I can to delve through the code to help there too occasionally).
One thing I notice about post kinds in the 1.3.0 version is that the number of post kinds is much smaller compared to the circa 1.2.X releases. Did you deprecate them? temporarily? while you work out issues on each?
On syndication links I notice that the resultant icons (on your site as well as mine) shift over a few pixels when hovering over them - is this by design or a quirk in my (our) CSS perhaps?
Congratulations again and keep up the good work!
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Perhaps it's one of the other IndieWeb modules not working properly, but I'm using Indieweb Post Kinds in a relatively out-of-the box WP setting. I find that when filling out the data for URL, Name, Author Name, Author Photo, Content/Excerpt fields, that after saving, the URL field didn't actually save any data to the database (or at least it doesn't show up when going back to edit the post). Additionally, the post itself shows the text "In Reply To" but doesn't actually display a link for which the post is actually in reply to as I would expect. Naturally the last part may be a result of the URL field being blank when going back to it after saving.
As a separate semantic issue, all of the post kinds seem to show the appropriate icon at the top of the post, and are then followed by the appropriate title "Article", "Favorite", "Liked", etc., however, if one accidentally marks a post-type and saves/publishes and then later comes back to change the mistake, the icon changes appropriately, but the following tag title stays the same as the original one that was saved and doesn't change to the updated post kind title.
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