The IndieWeb plugin does have quite a few related plugins which all interact well, but you don't necessarily need them all. You can obviously pick and choose based on the specific functionality you'd like to have. Their modularity helps to make understanding what sets of functionality each piece provides a lot easier.

In particular the two that will recreate most of the requested functionality of wp-social above are [Webmention ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention/)and [Semantic Linkbacks](https://wordpress.org/plugins/semantic-linkbacks/). These provide an endpoint that Bridgy can target to send your comments and likes from other social media sites. To my knowledge, they don't require any settings or set up other than uploading and activation.

The other sub-plugins within the larger IndieWeb suite add supplementary functionality if you want/need it. This also helps to cut down on code bloat which can slow your site down. In fact, if you only want a few in the suite, you can install them separately from the larger plugin. The others also help to not only extend functionality, but to better automate portions of it.

They are all also are being actively developed/supported on GitHub.

@zack06007 It looks to me like this plugin isn't being actively maintained and I don't even see it in the main WordPress.org repository anymore. It's also possible that with the recent WP 4.7 update some of the functionalities have broken further. The last commit to the code was almost a year and a half ago with the bulk of the code being even older.

If you'd like to maintain a lot of this functionality in a better way with some smaller discrete plugins I would recommend the following:
- [**JetPack** ](https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/)or [**Social Media Network Poster**](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-networks-auto-poster-facebook-twitter-g/) for syndicating/sharing your content to Facebook, Twitter, et al. JetPack is simpler to set up, but SNAP provides a lot more customization and has some good documentation.
- [**IndiwWeb Plugin for WordPress**](https://wordpress.org/plugins/indieweb/) - This will allow you to add some sub-plugins like Webmention and some simple comment plugins which will let your comments/likes/etc. come back to your pages and posts. The Syndication Links plugin within the IndieWeb plugin will allow you to easily display which services you syndicated individual content.
- [**Brid.gy**](http://brid.gy) - Connecting to this free service will give you comments, likes, and reactions from major social hubs like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, G+, and Flicker to come back to your original content in a pretty way. It is expandable to other platforms if you'd like to contribute to the code base. Bridgy uses their open APIs to bootstrap the new W3C Webmention spec to send the comments back to your site using the Webmention plugin within the IndieWeb Plugin mentioned above. Webmention is essentially an internet wide @mention functionality much like Twitter and Medium have.

If you need more help in setting these up or using them, feel free to visit http://indieweb.org/WordPress which has lots of documentation or ask in the [IndieWeb chat](http://indieweb.org/irc) where someone can help point you in the right direction.

.@davidmead may have almost as many social profiles listed on http://davidjohnmead.com as I do on http://boffosocko.com/about/social-media-accounts-and-links/ #YoureMissingOne ;)

@noaheverett A nice reminder of how far pictures in social media on mobile/web have come...

To Live and Write in LA - Share Your Blog: Los Angeles Bloggers (Los Angeles, CA) | Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Share-Your-Blog-Los-Angeles-Bloggers/messages/boards/thread/50202990/#129703401

Leo, I find it tough to keep up with even one or two sites, so I'm impressed that you're wrangling 3 (or maybe even more)...

http://toliveandwriteinla.com/
I love the magazine style set up you've got here and with a humongous amount of well-written and well thought out content. My one note here is that stylistically, the theme is probably getting a bit long in the tooth. As you'd commented to me, something that's responsive would certainly be cool.

Some small things you might consider:
On the next/last links under articles, articles with longer titles aren't properly buffered which causes the text from one to overwrite the other.
Notify me of comments/new posts renders oddly with some quirky overlap that could be tweaked.

http://leosopicki.com/
Personally I was never a fan of the "masonry" movement (I always felt it was too "busy", though here it does help to highlight a larger number of articles to help get the first time visitor into a topic they might enjoy.

On individual articles, I like the way you intersperse the visuals to change up the flow. However your line lengths are a bit too long to read as comfortably. If you added some more white space on the sides of your text blocks, things would be much more readable. (Try to shoot for 58-70 characters per line for ease of reading -- I'm guessing you're running almost as high as 125 in full-width which makes it harder to move one's eyes from one line to the next. Notice it's easier to read, especially for longer periods of time, with the left/right aligned photos because they shorten the line lengths.)

You really have a great voice in most of your posts that draw the reader into the experiences you're sharing. The captions on the photos really add to the experience too. You've obviously been doing this for a while and are good at what you're doing (which is also seen in some of the great feedback you've given to others here on meetup... thanks by the way.)

Your "Writer" menu link just goes to the homepage, which I understand to some extent as everything on the site is writer-centric, but I might have expected something a bit narrower and focused on screenwriting posts perhaps.

I would more likely have suspected to find a Twitter account, but was a bit surprised to see you pull out Pinterest in the left rail. Further I was shocked that there was some interesting stuff to be seen on Pinterest! I'm sure you can't do too much about the Pinterest widget, but the content shown there was so small and the vertical slider was a bit weird, you might see if you can either dig into it and fix it or perhaps find a better one.

Though speaking of Twitter accounts, I know you've got one, but one's really got to dig for it. Perhaps you could be leveraging the social media portion of things to help your work find more eyeballs?

Overall:
I know that changing themes can be difficult with lots of potential pitfalls and work (especially with a large portfolio), but as a writer, you might consider some themes with more white space and really fantastic readable typography to make your words a bit more front and center (without minimizing your great use and placement of photography). Even if you don't completely change themes, you might consider just punching up the typography and adding some extra whitespace to make things more readable.

Given that you're a photographer, you might also consider finding something that allows for adding some larger photos to better feature your work there. (I wish I knew of something to recommend that does a great job of melding both pictures and words, they're hard to come by.) Often I was disappointed that some of the photos were relatively so small and wished I could have seen full res versions.

Because the CSS of the primary theme (to v10.1.6) overrides the font-family in the `.widget-area .widget a` section of style.css (see below), none of the genericons for the social media sites will display when using the JetPack Social Icons Widget.

<blockquote>
/*--------------------------------------------------------------
Fallback CSS for Customizer Library Styles
--------------------------------------------------------------*/
`body,
.widget-area .widget a {
color: #3C3C3C;
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}`
</blockquote>

This behavior can be fixed by including the following code (best to do it in a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes" target="_blank">child theme</a>) instead:

`.widget-area .widget a {
color: #3C3C3C;
font-family: Genericons;
font-size: 2.5em;
margin: .10em;
}`

If you don't have a child-theme it can probably be fixed (without other erros/issues) by removing the line: `font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;`.

Hopefully Kaira will include a fix in an upcoming release.

I'd had the same original problem pfefferle notes above.

Note also that some of the fields in the User Profile that are used to add rel-me tags are also used by other plugins occasionally and they're not all done in a standard/canonical way. (Does WP specify if they should be full URLs or just usernames anywhere?) In particular, the popular "All In One SEO" plugin (1 million+ installs, which competes directly with Yoast) and is fairly ubiquitous uses some of these social media fields (typically with full URLs so https://www.twitter.com/username instead of @username or even username) to add meta-data in their plugin.

It may be better to include all these accounts separately as their own data fields within a freestanding plugin so there isn't any conflict with other plugins that may not use them canonically.

@MitchWagner I noticed in your blog it seems like you're repeating your about, contacts, and books as both a menu and as "share" icons menu. I suspect you may have meant to create a social links menu (https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/social-links-menu/) instead of repeating the other menu items. Then you created your social links using a separate widget.

This post https://codex.wordpress.org/Twenty_Fifteen/ covers a bit of what I'm talking about at the very bottom. In essence, you've got two places to which you can add menus and you're using them both to repeat the same set of links after which you're using a widget for your social media links. Why not use two separate menus (a main menu and a social menu) and ditch the widget?

I have just gone through the process of setting up Medium's plugin, so I'm giving that a spin for a couple weeks prior to kicking the tires of SNAP's integration. SNAP has done an excellent job on other platforms, so I'm guessing they're using all the available features there and probably have a stronger 1-1 mapping of data from one platform to the other, particularly as Medium is aiming at WordPress directly first. The one thing you might want to be careful about with Medium is making sure you don't have a "rel=canonical" tag [https://indieweb.org/rel-canonical] showing up on your Medium post, otherwise you might be getting docked by Google and others with respect to SEO. I know the Medium plugin handles this well, but haven't checked on how IFTTT or SNAP handle this yet.

I'm curious what specifically you found confusing about IndieWeb? Some of us in the WordPress group have been trying to make the value proposition and workflow better, particularly over the past several months. (Admittedly, before about April, the onboarding process was MUCH messier and the end user had to do a lot more reading/discovery and work to set things up, but I think the hurdle has moved much lower since then.) If you take a look at it again, I'd love to know where you experience problems/issues, so we can make things better for others. If you need help, there are many of us on IRC [https://indieweb.org/IRC] who can often help in real time.

As for privacy, in general, Facebook, Google+, et all are all public facing networks, so people posting there are really posting for everyone to see in the first place. If they're posting privately, I believe that the IndieWeb protocols respect that and don't import private webmentions. Most of the rest is about data ownership for you and your blog as well as trying to maintain a central repository for your blogs posts of all the conversation taking place around what you're posting. Part of the downfall of social media is that it can often fragment conversations. In some sense IndieWeb helps glue them all back together.

On your last point, I had a bit of cognitive dissonance with this as well when I started into IndieWeb, but I've just streamlined my workflow significantly (and for the better). I've turned off all the emails and notifications from individual social media platforms (at least as they relate to my content) and I rely on my WordPress install to do all the notifications. This way, for example, when someone replies to one of my posts on Facebook, I see the webmention via WordPress, and then use that to click on the contained link to the reply on Facebook. I'll then reply natively on Facebook so the other party sees it there (typically by Facebook notification), but then the IndieWeb backend ports over my comment back to the comments section of my own blog. My "audience" can follow me on their platform of choice, and I can still interact, but I still own all the resulting data: Win-win-win!