Title: Friends Plugin – Alex Kirk

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# Category: Friends Plugin

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   ## 󠀁[Friends 4.0](https://alex.kirk.at/2026/03/25/friends-4-0/)󠁿
   
 * March 25, 2026
 * It has been baking for much longer than I wanted, but today I released the next
   major version of my Friends Plugin for WordPress. Focusing on ActivityPub The
   biggest change is a deviation from the original idea: Friendships between WordPresses
   have been removed. With ActivityPub (when the respective ActivityPub plugin is
   installed, too) we have…
 * [Enable Mastodon Apps](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/enable-mastodon-apps/),
   [Friends Plugin](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/friends-plugin/), [WordPress](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/)
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   ## 󠀁[WordPress as a Refuge from Algorithms](https://alex.kirk.at/2025/04/24/wordpress-as-a-refuge-from-algorithms/)󠁿
   
 * April 24, 2025
 * ![](https://alex.kirk.at/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/digital-consumption-
   pyramid.png)
 * In a previous post, I have written about how you can use WordPress as your own
   Mastodon instance with the three plugins ActivityPub, Friends, and Enable Mastodon
   Apps. The Friends plugin also provides an RSS/Atom feed parser (and can be extended
   with more of them) so you that you can automatically receive content from many…
 * [Enable Mastodon Apps](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/enable-mastodon-apps/),
   [Friends Plugin](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/friends-plugin/), [Playground](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/playground/),
   [Web](https://alex.kirk.at/category/web/), [WordPress](https://alex.kirk.at/category/wordpress/)

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