What we shipped so far in 2025

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Alongside our upcoming plans, we’ve already shipped several important features in recent releases. Here are some highlights of what’s now available in the ActivityPub plugin.

Onboarding

We’ve added an onboarding flow after plugin activation to help guide new users through key decisions — such as selecting the Actor Mode.

It’s also a great opportunity to explain Fediverse concepts for users who are new to them.

More details:

👉 5.9.0 — Easier onboarding for your Fediverse experience

Move

The Move Activity is used by Mastodon to migrate accounts to different servers — and can also be used for domain or username changes.

In the WordPress ecosystem, one of the main motivations for implementing Move was to support changing the domain of a WordPress blog — a common scenario for WordPress site owners.

We’ve built a solid foundation in the plugin to both send and receive Move Activities. However, because Move is not yet widely adopted across the Fediverse, we’ve decided to pause further work on this feature until there is broader ecosystem support.

Account migration remains a crucial capability for a healthier, more portable social web. If you’re interested in the broader context and challenges around this, we recommend watching Cory Doctorow’s keynote from the June FediForum:

We’ll revisit this as the standard matures and more servers implement consistent handling of Move.

More details:

👉 GitHub — Move Milestone

Outbox

Earlier versions of the plugin supported only the federation of custom post types, sending all messages in one bulk.

That approach works up to about 1000 followers, but does not support retries, logging, or error handling.

To support larger blogs or news sites — we needed a more robust system.

We now have mechanisms to:

Federate activities to more than 1000 followers.
Use a staggered delivery system that prioritizes servers.
Provide a stable and scalable architecture.
Support retries and error reporting.

This improved Outbox system also makes it easier for third-party plugin developers to federate their own content types in a reliable and scalable way.

More details:

👉 GitHub — Outbox Milestone

Changelogs

These are just the major milestones. If you’re interested in everything we ship, be sure to subscribe or follow the blog — we publish detailed changelog posts with every new plugin release, listing all new features and improvements.

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As always, we welcome your feedback and ideas — they help shape the future of the ActivityPub plugin and the growing WordPress Fediverse community! 🚀