WP 6.9: Notes are published in Fediverse!?

  • Resolved Peter Müller

    (@pmmueller)


    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    WordPress 6.9 introduced Notes (Anmerkungen in German) that can be attached to a block in the editor. They are meant for internal communication.

    Yesterday I wrote a few notes on an unpublished page to test the new function, and this morning I found these Notes on Mastodon!

    ActivityPub should not publish Notes. And in my case it was configured for Posts only. So why does this happen at all?

    Two questions:

    1. Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?
    2. Is there a way to delete the unintentionally published Notes on Mastodon?

    At the moment it’s either Notes or ActivityPub.

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  • Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle

    (@pfefferle)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hey @pmmueller 👋

    was this before the 7.7.0 update? We are very sorry about that, the notes are stored as “comments” that is why they accidentally were federated in 7.6.X. With 7.7.0 this should no longer happen!

    Is there a way to delete the unintentionally published Notes on Mastodon?

    Oh no, have you published a lot of them?

    This is tricky, because v7.7.0 does no longer federate them, so the deletes will also not be federated. Can you somehow run the WP-CLI on your webspace? You can use the following command to delete comments:

    $ wp activitypub comment delete <id>

    I am sorry for the circumstances!

    Thread Starter Peter Müller

    (@pmmueller)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Thanx for the quick replay. Just read the Changelog of 7.7.0:

    Prevents unwanted comment types—like pingbacks, trackbacks, notes and custom system comments, from being federated, ensuring only real user comments are shared with the fediverse.

    Just checked the version numbers and one site it definitely was 7.6.1. That’s updated to 7.7.0 and that will probably take care of it.

    On the other site version was 7.7.0, but it could well have been an auto-update since yesterday. I’ll do some tests and post here if I still find an issue.

    Thankfully, I did not write a lot of Notes and no harmful content was published, it just looks silly on Mastodon.

    Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle

    (@pfefferle)

    2 months, 2 weeks ago

    It seems to work fine now, so I will resolve this issue.

    If you still have issues @pmmueller please let us know!

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