I just updated my blog, finally. It took forever, because the automatic-by-the-link update method no longer works, so I had to download WordPress fresh, put it somewhere handy, and then follow the upgrade instructions I found on the Automattic site for this sort of thing. Once I had all the files updated, I refreshed my blog and it asked if it was okay to update the database, which took only moments.

Then once that was accomplished, the next step was to update PHP on my silly host, they are not helpful at all, and now that I have updated my WordPress manually, I don’t know if I ever will need their help again.

After all of that, I installed the ActivityPub plugin. It says it is functioning, but I have no idea if it really is or not, I can’t seem to get it to come up on Mastodon.Social, so perhaps a new post will trip some trigger.

The notion of writing in my blog, for long form pieces is something that might be really useful again, now that I am no longer on Facebook and this promise of expanding my social reach using ActivityPub certainly is attractive. I suppose only time will tell.